OFSAA Transaction Monitoring Technology Lead

Role: OFSAA Transaction Monitoring Technology Lead

Duration: 3 Months with potential for extension

Work Model: Hybrid (4 days onsite, 1 day remote)

Locations:

• Mount Laurel, NJ
• Wilmington, DE
• Jacksonville, FL
• Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Lewiston, ME
• Portland, ME
• Charlotte, NC
• Greenville, SC
• Boston, MA
• Washington/Vienna, VA
• New York, NY

Candidate Profile

Education

• Completed post-secondary education (Diploma or Degree required)

Experience

• 10 years of overall professional experience

Certifications (Preferred)

• Java Certification
• Python Certification
• SQL Certification

Performance Metrics

• Ability to meet project timelines and deliverables

Role Overview

The OFSAA Transaction Monitoring Technology Lead is responsible for the technical architecture, development, stability, and optimization of the OFSAA Transaction Monitoring platform supporting enterprise AML (Anti-Money Laundering) programs.

This individual serves as the primary technical authority for Transaction Monitoring, providing hands-on leadership across OFSAA, FCCM, Oracle databases, ETL/IETL processes, scheduling frameworks, and data pipelines. The role focuses on ensuring a resilient, scalable, high-performing, and compliant platform.

Team & Environment

• Average meeting time: 2–3 hours per day
• Stakeholder interaction: Internal teams across the organization
• Access to customer data: Yes

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership & Architecture

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the OFSAA Transaction Monitoring platform, including:
• OFSAA
• FCCM
• Oracle Database
• ETL processes
• Job scheduling
• System integrations
• Establish and enforce technical standards, design patterns, and best practices.
• Drive platform enhancements, performance improvements, modernization initiatives, and cloud migration strategies.
• Evaluate opportunities for refactoring, re-engineering, and cloud enablement.

OFSAA Transaction Monitoring Engineering

• Lead hands-on engineering and support for:
• Entity Resolution (ER)
• Transaction Monitoring (TM)
• Reconciliation processes
• Data validation
• Batch processing
• Design and maintain AutoSys job workflows, dependencies, recovery mechanisms, and restart strategies.
• Provide expert guidance on:
• Oracle SQL
• Database performance tuning
• Partitioning strategies
• Statistics collection
• Review and approve technical designs, implementation artifacts, and operational runbooks.

Production Support & Issue Resolution

• Serve as the highest level escalation point for OFSAA TM production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis across:
• OFSAA
• ETL/IETL pipelines
• Oracle databases
• File ingestion processes
• Scheduling systems
• Design long-term solutions for recurring incidents, data quality issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks before they impact AML operations.

Data Quality, Controls & Reconciliation

• Design and implement technical controls for data quality, validation, and reconciliation.
• Ensure data integrity across source systems, staging environments, and OFSAA TM layers.
• Collaborate with data governance and controls teams to embed preventive and detective controls within transaction monitoring pipelines.

Change Delivery & Regulatory Initiatives

• Lead technical delivery for:
• Scenario updates
• Threshold changes
• Tuning exercises
• Lookback enhancements
• Regulatory commitments
• Drive changes through the SDLC with emphasis on:
• Testability
• Traceability
• Audit readiness
• Support audits, regulatory examinations, and model risk reviews by providing technical documentation, evidence, and system traceability.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide hands-on leadership to developers, engineers, and vendor teams.
• Review code, SQL queries, AutoSys job definitions, and technical solutions.
• Mentor team members on:
• OFSAA Transaction Monitoring
• AML platform architecture
• Production engineering best practices
• Act as a technical liaison between AML business stakeholders and engineering teams.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

OFSAA / AML Platforms

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle OFSAA Transaction Monitoring (TM) and FCCM.
• Deep understanding of:
• Transaction Monitoring batch processing
• Entity Resolution
• Alert generation
• Lookback processing
• Experience supporting enterprise AML Transaction Monitoring solutions within regulated environments.

Engineering & Infrastructure

• Advanced Oracle SQL expertise, including:
• Query optimization
• Performance tuning
• Partitioning
• Database troubleshooting
• Strong experience with AutoSys or comparable enterprise scheduling platforms.
• Experience with:
• ETL/IETL frameworks
• Informatica
• File ingestion processes
• Reconciliation frameworks
• Working knowledge of:
• Linux scripting
• Batch operations
• Production support tools

Delivery & Problem Solving

• Proven ability to resolve complex cross-platform technical issues in production environments.
• Experience leading technical design and delivery within large, highly regulated organizations.
• Strong documentation, presentation, and communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Must-Have Skills

1. Strong hands-on experience with Oracle OFSAA Transaction Monitoring (TM) and FCCM TM.
2. Experience modernizing or migrating OFSAA/Transaction Monitoring workloads to cloud platforms.
3. Exposure to high-volume payments processing or real-time monitoring platforms.
4. Experience working directly with regulators, auditors, or model risk teams from a technology perspective.

Preferred Skills

• AutoSys scheduling experience
• ETL/IETL experience
• Entity Resolution expertise
• Java, Python, or SQL certifications

Required Soft Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management abilities
• Self-motivated, organized, and able to work independently or within a team
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving capabilities
• Adaptable and proactive mindset
• Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced, highly regulated environments

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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $80.00/hr.