FIS ALS Techno-Functional Consultant

Yadimen Consulting Limited; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 556,000 - 874,000; Full time

Job summary

Yadimen Consulting Limited is seeking a techno-functional consultant to support and evolve a major bank lending platform built on FIS ALS, currently undergoing mainframe modernization. You will translate business needs into specifications that a mainframe developer can implement and verify the changes meet acceptance criteria.

The role sits with the ALS development team and is hands-on rather than a coordination position, focusing on in-system analysis, data mapping, interfaces, and release

Qualifications

• Hands-on FIS ALS experience is required.
• 8+ years in mortgage or consumer lending, including loan servicing, escrow, default management, and collections.
• Proficient with mainframe stack: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
• Ability to craft BRDs/FRDs with acceptance criteria and business/functional rules.
• Experience eliciting requirements via workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Ability to specify interfaces, batch processes, file-based feeds and data mappings across ALS and banking systems.
• Solid SQL and relational database concepts.
• Experience delivering regulatory and compliance-driven lending changes.
• Experience across Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Production, Production and DR environments.
• Experience with ALS upgrades, patches or FIS vendor releases, and with platform migration.
• Experience in a mainframe modernisation or platform migration programme.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
• Run workshops, interviews and requirement elicitation sessions.
• Analyse current- and future-state lending processes.
• Produce BRDs, FRDs and user stories, with acceptance criteria and business rules.
• Analyse ALS functionality across loan servicing, escrow, default management and customer account management.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing lending processes and downstream systems.
• Support ALS upgrade and enhancement initiatives.
• Prepare detailed functional and technical specifications for development.
• Analyse system interfaces and data flows.
• Work with developers on batch processing, file-based interfaces, integrations, and data mapping and transformation.
• Support solution design discussions and release activity through to production.

Skills

FIS ALS hands-on experience

Mortgage/consumer lending experience

Mainframe stack: COBOL/JCL/DB2/CICS

BRD/FRD/specification crafting

Requirements elicitation

Data mapping across ALS/core banking/T

SQL and RDBMS concepts

Regulatory/compliance lending changes

Dev/Test/UAT/Pre-Prod/Prod/DR

ALS upgrades/patches/FIS releases

Mainframe modernisation / migration

Job description

• Location:Onsite/hybrid, Dublin, Ireland. Remote considered for candidates based elsewhere in Europe, subject to client approval.
  
• Engagement:Contract, long-term
  
• Day rate:[TBC - confirmed on application]
  
• Right to work:Right to work in Ireland or the EU required. No sponsorship available on this engagement.
  

About the role..

A techno-functional consultant is required to support and evolve a major bank lending platform built on FIS ALS, currently undergoing mainframe modernisation.

The role sits with the ALS development team. You will turn business need into specifications a mainframe developer can build from, and tests that prove the change behaved as specified. The work is inside the system: tracing why an account behaved as it did, identifying the parameter driving it, verifying overnight cycle output, and reconciling what ALS sends downstream against what arrives.

This is a hands-on technical role, not a coordination role.

Requirements

Essential skills

• Hands-on FIS ALS experience. This is a hard requirement and cannot be substituted by general lending experience.
  
• 8+ years' experience, the majority in mortgage or consumer lending - loan servicing, escrow, default management and collections.
  
• Working knowledge of the mainframe stack underpinning ALS: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
  
• Specification craft: Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Documents, functional and technical specifications, acceptance criteria, current- and future-state process mapping.
  
• Requirements elicitation through workshops and stakeholder interviews.
  
• Ability to specify interfaces, batch processing, file-based feeds and data mapping between ALS, core banking and treasury systems.
  
• SQL and RDBMS concepts, sufficient to validate your own analysis.
  
• Experience delivering regulatory and compliance-driven lending change.
  
• Experience across tiered environments: Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Production, Production and DR.
  
• Prior work on ALS upgrades, patches or FIS vendor releases.
  
• Experience on a mainframe modernisation or platform migration programme.
  

Key responsibilities

Business and functional analysis

• Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
  
• Run workshops, interviews and requirement elicitation sessions.
  
• Analyse current- and future-state lending processes.
  
• Produce BRDs, FRDs and user stories, with acceptance criteria and business rules.
  

ALS platform analysis

• Analyse ALS functionality across loan servicing, escrow, default management and customer account management.
  
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing lending processes and downstream systems.
  
• Support ALS upgrade and enhancement initiatives.
  

Technical analysis

• Prepare detailed functional and technical specifications for development.
  
• Analyse system interfaces and data flows.
  
• Work with developers on batch processing, file-based interfaces, integrations, and data mapping and transformation.
  
• Support solution design discussions and release activity through to production.
  

What we offer

• Long-term engagement on a high-visibility lending transformation programme.
  
• Onsite/hybrid working in Dublin, or remote within Europe subject to client approval.
  
• Which ALS modules you have worked in, and what you did in them.
  
• Whose lending book it was.
  
• Approximately which release the estate was on.
  
• One change you specified end to end, including what went wrong with it.
  
• Applications are reviewed against the covering note first.