Actimize AML Technical Lead

Role: Senior Actimize AML Technical Lead

Location- Remote

Hiring Mode:- Full-time

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced AML Technical Lead with strong expertise in Ab Initio, Actimize AML-SAM and CDD.

The candidate will provide onsite technical leadership, own production support activities, lead the offshore development/support team, and work closely with AML Business, Product, Compliance, Data, and Technology stakeholders.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Ab Initio ETL and knowledge on SAM & CDD, along with proven experience managing production issues and leading offshore teams.

Key Responsibilities

Onsite Technical Leadership

• Act as the primary onsite technical lead for Actimize IT team.
• Serve as the key technical point of contact between business stakeholders, AML/Product teams, technology teams, and offshore resources.
• Lead technical discussions, requirement analysis, solution design, estimation, planning, and implementation.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Coordinate with architecture, infrastructure, database, data engineering, and application teams.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to offshore team members.

Production Support & Application Operations

• Own and lead Actimize AML production support activities.
• Monitor daily AML processing, batch jobs, data feeds, and downstream Actimize processes.
• Analyze and resolve production incidents related to Ab Initio, SAM, CDD and AML data feeds.
• Perform root-cause analysis and provide permanent fixes for recurring production issues.
• Lead incident management, problem management, and defect-resolution activities.
• Coordinate with offshore teams to investigate and resolve production issues within defined SLAs.
• Perform production data analysis and reconciliation using SQL/Ab Initio and Actimize data.
• Troubleshoot failed jobs, rejected records, missing data, data-quality issues, processing failures, and application issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure/database/application support teams for cross-platform issues.
• Support emergency fixes, production deployments, and post-deployment validation.
• Participate in production release planning, implementation, and validation.
• Ensure daily/monthly AML processing is completed successfully and issues are proactively identified.
• Maintain production support documentation, runbooks, knowledge articles, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual production-support activities and improve application stability.
• Participate in on-call/support rotations when required.

Offshore Team Leadership

• Lead and manage the offshore Actimize/Ab Initio development and production-support team.
• Assign daily tasks and prioritize work based on business and production priorities.
• Conduct regular status meetings with offshore team members.
• Review offshore deliverables, technical solutions, code, and implementation plans.
• Track incidents, defects, enhancements, and project deliverables through completion.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to offshore resources.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer between onsite and offshore teams.
• Ensure offshore team follows established development, testing, deployment, and production-support standards.
• Monitor offshore team performance, workload, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Act as the escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Ensure seamless onsite/offshore collaboration and handoffs.
• Build and maintain strong technical capability within the offshore team.

Ab Initio – Strong Technical Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with Ab Initio ETL development.
• Experience with GDE, graphs, components, plans, sandboxes, and deployment processes.
• Develop and maintain complex ETL workflows supporting AML applications.
• Perform data extraction, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and loading.
• Troubleshoot and tune Ab Initio graphs and production jobs.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and optimize large-volume data processing.
• Perform source-to-target data analysis and data lineage tracing.
• Support production failures and data-quality issues involving Ab Initio processes.

Actimize SAM

• knowledge of Actimize SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring).
• Understanding of SAM architecture, scenarios, rules, alerts, transactions, entities, and investigations.
• Support SAM data feeds, batch processing, and application workflows.
• Troubleshoot SAM-related production issues and data discrepancies.
• Support SAM enhancements, rule changes, and regulatory requirements.
• Validate transaction and customer data flowing into Actimize SAM.
• Work with AML stakeholders to analyze alert and transaction-monitoring requirements.

Actimize CDD / Customer Risk Rating

• knowledge of Actimize CDD and Customer Risk Rating.
• Understand customer risk factors, attributes, scoring, weighting, segmentation, and risk classification.
• Support CDD rule and risk-factor changes.
• Validate customer-risk outcomes following releases and production changes.
• Work closely with AML/Compliance teams to understand and implement CRR requirements.

AML Domain Expertise

• Understanding of AML/KYC processes.
• Customer Due Diligence (CDD).
• Customer Risk Rating (CRR).
• Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM).
• Transaction monitoring.

Production & Delivery Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery from requirements through production implementation.
• Participate in SIT, UAT, regression testing, production deployment, and post-production validation.
• Coordinate release activities across onsite/offshore teams.
• Ensure production changes follow appropriate change-management and approval processes.
• Prepare implementation plans, deployment checklists, rollback plans, and validation procedures.
• Track and communicate project status, production incidents, risks, dependencies, and issues to stakeholders.
• Proactively identify application/data risks and recommend remediation.
• Drive continuous improvement of AML applications and production-support processes.

Required Skills

• Ab Initio – Strong/Expert
• Actimize AML – Good
• Actimize SAM – Good
• Actimize CDD – Good
• Customer Risk Rating / CRR – Good
• SQL / Oracle
• Unix/Linux
• AML/KYC domain knowledge
• Production Support / Incident Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Release & Deployment Management
• Onsite/Offshore Team Leadership
• Stakeholder Management

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience with strong financial-services experience.
• 5+ years of Actimize/AML experience preferred.
• Strong Ab Initio experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale AML platforms in production.
• Experience managing offshore development and production-support teams.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience working with banking, credit-card, or other financial-services organizations.