Fircosoft Implementation Consultant

Capgemini; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in NYC four days a week

Job summary

Capgemini seeks a Fircosoft Implementation Consultant for a hand-on, delivery-focused engagement in New York City. The role requires deep experience with Fircosoft, SWIFT/ISO 20022, and sanctions compliance, and entails advising FCC leadership on screening scope and rules, not just implementing directives.

You will coordinate with FCC, Technology, and Payments Operations to ensure timely delivery under a demanding regulatory timeline.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10+ years of experience in financial crime compliance technology.
• Hands-on Fircosoft implementation, upgrade, or tuning in a Tier-1 or large regional bank.
• Experience advising FCC leadership on screening strategy and scope.

Responsibilities

• Advise FCC and Payments leadership on screening scope and regulatory rationale.
• Interpret SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 message structures to identify screenable data.
• Lead Fircosoft configuration, list management, and threshold calibration for real-time screening.
• Define test strategies and evidence-based tuning decisions for regulators and audits.
• Act as technical lead between FCC, Compliance Technology, Payments Operations, and vendor.

Skills

Fircosoft implementation

SWIFT/ISO 20022 understanding

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Finance

Tools

Fircosoft SIP/SAM

SQL

Job description

New York, NY, United States (On-site)

Contract (4 months 15 days)

A leading global financial institution is engaging a Fircosoft Implementation Consultant — to lead the configuration, tuning, and delivery of a payment screening capability built on the Fircosoft (LSEG Screening Solutions) platform — covering FircoSoft Continuity, Fircosoft Filtering (SIP/SAM), and associated case management workflows. This is a hands-on, delivery-accountable contractor role for someone who has implemented or upgraded Fircosoft payment screening in a Tier-1 bank, can read and reason about SWIFT/ISO 20022 message structures at field level, and can operate independently against an aggressive regulatory timeline.

Critically, this is not a pure execution role: the consultant is expected to advise FCC and Payments leadership on what to screen and how — which message types, fields, and party roles belong in scope, and how to calibrate matching logic — not simply implement decisions made elsewhere.

This position is based in Manhattan, NY, with an on-site presence required a minimum of four days per week to support close coordination with FCC, Technology, and Payments Operations stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Advise FCC and Payments leadership on which payment message types, fields, and party roles — originator, beneficiary, ordering/beneficiary institution, intermediary and correspondent banks, cover payments — must be in scope for screening, and the regulatory rationale for each.

Interpret SWIFT MT message structures (MT103, MT202, MT202COV, MT205, MT210) and ISO 20022 equivalents (pacs.008, pacs.009, camt) at field level, identifying exactly where screenable party data resides — including cover-payment and correspondent-banking chains — and known data-quality pitfalls (truncation, embedded free-text, wrapped or nested fields).

Recommend and own screening methodology and message/field-level scope decisions, and defend them credibly to internal governance, independent testing, audit, and regulators.

Fircosoft Implementation & Configuration:

Lead the technical configuration of the Fircosoft filtering engine (SIP/SAM), including list management, matching algorithms, weighting, and threshold calibration for real-time payment screening.

Ensure sanctions watchlists (OFAC, UN, EU, HMT, and internal lists) are correctly onboarded, formatted, and refreshed in line with regulatory update cycles.

Integrate Fircosoft with core payment rails and messaging formats (SWIFT MT/MX, ISO 20022, ACH, Fedwire, CHIPS) to ensure accurate, low-latency screening.

Design and tune rule sets, safe-lists, and fuzzy-matching parameters to reduce false positives while maintaining screening efficacy and audit defensibility.

Testing, Tuning & Validation:

Define and execute test strategies (functional, regression, performance, and UAT) for screening upgrades, list changes, and rule modifications.

Analyze and reduce false-positive and false-negative rates through structured tuning cycles, using statistically sound sampling and documented rationale.

Partner with model/rule validation and independent testing teams to evidence screening effectiveness for regulators and internal audit.

Stakeholder Coordination & Governance:

Act as the technical lead between FCC, Compliance Technology, Payments Operations, and the vendor (LSEG/Fircosoft) on implementation issues, patches, and escalations.

Document configuration decisions, tuning changes, and testing evidence in a form that satisfies internal governance and regulatory examination.

Communicate progress, risks, and key configuration decisions to senior FCC and Technology leadership, translating technical detail into decision-ready summaries.

Delivery & Continuous Improvement

Own delivery of the platform upgrade, list-format migration, or new-implementation workstream through to go-live, managing scope, risk, and dependencies end to end.

Identify and recommend improvements to screening architecture, alert handling, and case management workflows based on hands-on platform experience.

Qualifications:

Experience:

Minimum of 8-10+ years of experience in financial crime compliance technology, with direct, hands-on Fircosoft implementation, upgrade, or tuning experience in a Tier-1 or large regional bank.

Demonstrated prior delivery of payment screening implementations at a large financial institution; direct experience in a comparable bulge-bracket environment is strongly preferred.

Track record of operating at Director/Principal Consultant level — advising client FCC and Payments leadership on screening strategy and scope, not solely executing configuration handed down by others.

Experience working directly with sanctions/OFAC compliance officers, FCC leadership, and independent testing or audit functions.

Technical & Functional Skills:

Deep working knowledge of the Fircosoft/LSEG Screening Solutions suite: Continuity, Filtering (SIP/SAM), Firco Trust, and case management/alert disposition tools.

Field-level, hands-on understanding of SWIFT MT (103, 202, 202COV, 205, 210) and ISO 20022 (pacs.008/009, camt) message structures — able to pinpoint where screenable party data sits, including cover payments and correspondent-banking chains, and to advise on message-type and field-level screening scope. Working knowledge of Fedwire, CHIPS, and ACH formats also expected.

Solid understanding of sanctions list structures and update mechanics (OFAC, UN, EU, HMT) and fuzzy-matching/algorithmic tuning principles.

Working proficiency with SQL and standard testing/documentation tooling for evidencing tuning decisions and test outcomes.

Certifications & Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline; equivalent hands-on experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

FCC-related certifications (e.g., ACAMS CAMS, CFCS) are a plus but not required given the technical, implementation-focused nature of the role.

Soft Skills:

Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical configuration decisions to non-technical compliance and audit stakeholders.

Advisory gravitas to challenge and guide client screening strategy — comfortable pushing back on FCC and Payments leadership when proposed scope or logic creates regulatory or operational risk.

Ability to operate independently against a defined statement of work, with minimal day-to-day oversight.

Structured, evidence-based mindset with attention to the audit trail and defensibility that regulated screening environments demand.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $69.34/hour - $108.35/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.