Techno Functional Lead / Solution Specialist (m/f/d)

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced Senior Programme Lead to drive large-scale banking IT programs and wealth platform implementations in a multi-vendor environment. The role will coordinate design workshops, translate business needs into specs, and ensure governance across UAE and Swiss technology stacks.

You will oversee end-to-end delivery, align integrations across core platforms, and manage risk, dependencies, and stakeholder reporting for successful go-lives in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Banking and Wealth Management experience.
• 5+ years in Wealth Transformation or Private Banking implementation programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead & Manage Large Scale and multi entity Project Implementation – preferably wealth projects
• Drive solution design workshops and translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Coordinate vendor implementation teams
• Drive delivery governance, reporting, and issue resolution
• Ensure alignment between UAE and Swiss technology stacks
• Oversee integrations across portfolio management, custody, trading, CRM, payments, market data, onboarding, and regulatory systems.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, Dress Rehearsal, Cutover, and Go-Live activities.
• Experience in compliance with Swiss regulatory requirements including FINMA, AML, TAX reporting.
• Drive risk management, issue resolution, dependency tracking, and stakeholder reporting.

Skills

Large scale banking IT programs

Wealth platform implementations

Multi vendor delivery governance

Infrastructure and release management

EU/Swiss – New Bank Setup

Finnova (plus)

Incore Sobaco (plus)

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Postman

Swagger

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Main duties and day-to-day tasks expected from the resource

• Lead & Manage Large Scale and multi entity Project Implementation – preferably wealth projects
• Drive solution design workshops and translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Coordinate vendor implementation teams
• Drive delivery governance, reporting, and issue resolution
• Ensure alignment between UAE and Swiss technology stacks
• Oversee integrations across portfolio management, custody, trading, CRM, payments, market data, onboarding, and regulatory systems.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, Dress Rehearsal, Cutover, and Go-Live activities.
• Experience in compliance with Swiss regulatory requirements including FINMA, AML, TAX reporting.
• Drive risk management, issue resolution, dependency tracking, and stakeholder reporting.

Required Skills

Primary technical and functional skills

• Large scale banking IT programs
• Wealth platform implementations
• Multi vendor delivery governance
• Strong infrastructure and release management understanding
• Experience Managing EU/Swiss – New Bank Setup
• Experience in implementing Finnova is a plus
• Experience with Incore Sobaco is a plus

Required Experience / Knowledge Areas

Specific domain or industry knowledge required

• 10+ years of Banking and Wealth Management experience.
• 5+ years in Wealth Transformation or Private Banking implementation programs.

Good-to-Have Skills

Additional skills that are an advantage but not mandatory

• Swiss or EU private banking implementations
• Wealth Implementations
• Experience in implementing Finnova
• Experience with Incore Sobaco
• Enterprise Integration patterns.
• DevOps and Release Management exposure.

Key Deliverables

Expected outputs and outcomes from the resource

Manage the Project & own technology delivery across vendors, internal teams, environments, and go live.

Preferred Tech Stack

• Rest APIs/ Soap Services
• Kafka
• MQ
• SQL Server/Postgre SQL
• Microservices
• AWS/Azure

Tools / Platforms

JIRA/Confluence/Postman/Swagger