Business Analysts for Banks

Octal Philippines Inc. is seeking a skilled Technical Business Analyst to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will play a key role in facilitating the collaboration between stakeholders and technical teams. You will be responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements, identifying technical solutions, and ensuring that business needs are met through effective system implementations. A strong understanding of both business processes and technical aspects of systems is essential for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• AML/Fraud Domain Knowledge: Translate high-level business requirements and objectives related to AML and fraud detection into clear, detailed technical specifications and data requirements.
• Decisioning & Rule Engine Management: Directly configure and maintain components within our decisioning and rule engine, including the setup of rules, variables, decision tables, and decision trees.
• System Architecture & Integration Analysis: Analyze and document the architecture of our application services, data links, storage solutions, and APIs. Actively participate in designing system integrations and creating comprehensive integration diagrams.
• Technical Environment Understanding: Demonstrate a working knowledge of Linux for basic operations and maintenance, including log analysis, service monitoring, and resource planning.
• Data & Middleware Stack: Work with and provide input on our data infrastructure and middleware stack, including the Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive, HDFS) and technologies such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, HBase, Nginx, Kafka, and Zookeeper.
• Coding & Technical Design: Possess the ability to read and understand code to effectively collaborate with developers and contribute to the technical design of solutions.

• Experience: At least 3 to 5 years of experience in a Technical Business Analyst role or a similar position with a strong technical focus.
• Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of basic AML and fraud concepts, including the data and processes required for effective risk management.
• Technical Skills: ○ Proficiency in configuring decisioning and rule engine platforms. ○ Experience with system architecture and integration patterns. ○ Familiarity with Linux administration basics. ○ Knowledge of data stacks (Hadoop, etc.) and various middleware technologies.
• Coding Ability: A foundational understanding of coding principles with the ability to read and comprehend code.