Senior Specialist - Applied Innovation & Research (RegTech Developer)

Responsabilities

• Build experimental PoCs and pilots for research and development of cutting-edge use cases

• Develop regtech tools and solutions to help our supervised firms achieve regulatory compliance in a more efficient and cost-effective manner

• Develop Suptech tools to enhance the FSRA’s supervisory and enforcement capabilities of both fintech and traditional financial services firms

• Carry out research to identify trends in emerging tech / suptech / regtech / fintech and analyse their current and future impacts on financial services and regulators

• Support communications and engagement with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders to build R&D and knowledge management capability and raise awareness of emerging trends in financial services

• Support the translation of insights and analysis into meaningful actions for the FSRA, for example the development, prototyping and adoption of suptech solutions within the FSRA to enhance our supervision and enforcement of both fintech and traditional financial services firms

• Assist in the authoring of FSRA’s thought-leadership research pieces for external publication relating to technology and/or regulatory policy for fintech

• Deliver additional tasks that may be delegated from the Line Manager

Essential experience:

• Minimum 6+ years of professional software development experience

• Relevant degree

• Experience in software development, object-oriented programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/Python/C#)

• Experience with at least two of the following:

o Front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

o Database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, or MongoDB

o Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

o Agile development methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Scrum

• Strong technical understanding of current technology trends including at least one of:

o NLP 

o Machine learning

o DLT/Blockchain

o DeFi (DAOs/Smart contracts)

• Excellent communication and engagement skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Experience in translating insights and analysis into meaningful actions and delivering projects from start to finish

• A passion for emerging technologies and regulatory compliance in the financial services industry

• The ability to take initiative, work independently and as part of a team

Desirable:

• Experience of working in the financial services sector

• Experience working in an innovation team, in a startup or participating in hackathons.

• Experience in developing regtech tools and solutions to help firms achieve regulatory compliance

• Qualifications / accreditation in software engineering, cybersecurity, data governance, finance, or related disciplines

• Experience in carrying out research to identify trends in emerging technologies and analysing their impacts on financial services and regulators, including publication of research reports

• Arabic language skills