Trade Finance Platform Lead

Astek Middle East; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Astek Middle East seeks a Trade Finance Lead to oversee enterprise financial and trading applications within a banking environment. You will combine technical expertise with lifecycle management, system integration, and production support.

The role requires collaboration with business stakeholders, IT, quality assurance, infrastructure teams, and external vendors to ensure secure, high-performing systems and compliance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/IT or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant cash equity experience.
• Saudi nationality is mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Knowledge of Middle Eastern and Saudi equity markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of business-critical applications.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes and implement appropriate system enhancements.
• Lead second-level application support, including issue investigation, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and coordination with vendors.
• Coordinate testing, defect resolution, and system changes to ensure timely and effective delivery.
• Collaborate with business and operations teams, IT support, QA, systems integration teams, project managers, and external service providers.
• Support project planning, technical design, application development, and systems integration.
• Ensure system changes comply with security, audit, PCI DSS, and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure hardware, software, storage, and network capabilities.
• Lead technical activities required for application certification and compliance with security frameworks.
• Guide development, testing, deployment, and implementation activities, reviewing completed work for quality and effectiveness.
• Support production deployments and off-hours activities when required.

Skills

Communication in English

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

High-pressure environment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Equivalent experience

Tools

Java

.NET

Oracle SQL

MS SQL Server

Unix scripting

Job description

Astek Middle East seeks a Trade Finance Lead to oversee enterprise financial and trading applications within a banking environment. You will combine technical expertise with lifecycle management, system integration, and production support.

The role requires collaboration with business stakeholders, IT, quality assurance, infrastructure teams, and external vendors to ensure secure, high-performing systems and compliance with regulatory standards.