About Our Client
A leading organisation based in Abu Dhabi, undergoing significant growth and transformation across its tech capabilities.
Job Description
- Key hire within a growing Enterprise Applications function
- Ownership of live, business critical applications in a regulated environment
- Own application lifecycle activities including roadmaps, backlogs, integrations and ongoing enhancements.
- Gather requirements and features from business users and translate them into functional requirements.
- Draft and maintain business processes under a business analysis remit.
- Act as an SME for assigned applications, reviewing functional requirements from a technical perspective.
- Research and compare applications, engaging with the business during R&D and selection phases.
- Engage with business users across operations, front office, legal, tax, and business operations during application selection and onboarding.
- Manage external vendors, enforcing SLAs, change management, release, and deployment processes.
- Ensure applications remain compliant with regulatory and Information Security requirements, feeding changes into the product roadmap.
- Use Jira / ITSM tool and ensure delivery aligns with agreed SLAs.
- Participate in weekly engagements with SMEs for certain application onboardings.
The Successful Applicant
- Strong experience owning and managing enterprise applications within financial services. Buy side / asset management / investment management experience strongly preferred.
- Background combining product ownership, business analysis, and delivery/project management.
- Comfortable operating in environments with existing/live platforms rather than product invention.
- Strong technical understanding of how applications work (not a developer role), including:
- Fundamentals of how applications are built
- Object‑oriented concepts (Exposure to Java and Python based apps)
- Confident working with vendors and technical teams, able to review functional requirements from an overview/technical standpoint.
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable working with busy senior stakeholders.
- Able to operate in organisations with multiple moving parts and evolving maturity.
What’s on Offer
- Ownership of a critical enterprise application portfolio within an FS organisation
- High exposure to business stakeholders and senior technology leadership
- Competitive salary and benefits package based in Abu Dhabi
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