Risk Systems And Strategy Deployment Manager
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About the Role
Astra Tech is looking for a Risk Systems and Strategy Deployment Manager in Abu Dhabi. This role bridges Risk Strategy, Engineering, and Operations teams, deploying credit risk policies into decision engines.
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Responsibilities
- Own product requirements for credit risk systems including decision engine, customer limit management, fraud system, and data platform.
- Deploy credit risk policies, scorecards, models, and business rules into decision engine and model platform with accuracy and speed.
- Monitor strategy performance, approval rates, rejection reasons, error rates, and overall system stability.
- Maintain thorough documentation covering decision logic, rule versions, data fields, test results, and deployment records.
- Act as key liaison between Risk Strategy, Engineering, QA, Operations, and vendor teams.
- Provide consultation and hands on support to Risk Strategy Team for strategy design, review, and implementation.
- Manage timelines and delivery milestones for system initiatives, ensuring cross functional alignment.
- Lead end to end delivery of risk system projects from requirements gathering to post launch monitoring.
- Maintain project trackers, manage stakeholder communications, and surface risks and blockers proactively.
- Work within Agile frameworks using Jira and Confluence to manage sprints, backlogs, and documentation.
- Translate business and risk requirements into low to mid fidelity UI prototypes and wireframes.
- Ensure decision logic and workflow requirements are visualised clearly to reduce ambiguity during development and UAT.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field
- 3–6 years of relevant experience in banking, consumer finance, fintech, lending, credit cards, or similar
- Hands on experience with decision engines, rule engines, credit decisioning platforms, or strategy management systems
- Solid understanding of credit risk processes including policy design, scorecard deployment, and lending lifecycle management
- Strong SQL or Python skills for data analysis, querying, and workflow automation
- Ability to write clear and structured requirements, test cases, deployment documents, and issue analysis reports
- Demonstrated experience in project management, managing multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- Familiarity with prototyping or wireframing tools to produce UI mockups
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and cross functional communication skills
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Role Summary
- We are looking for a Risk System and Strategy Deployment Manager professional to take ownership of our credit risk systems and serve as the primary bridge between our Risk Strategy, Engineering, and Operations teams.
- This role is critical to ensuring that credit risk policies, models, and rules are accurately and efficiently translated into executable decision engine flows.
Responsibilities
- Own product requirements for credit risk systems, including the decision engine, customer limit management system, fraud system, and data platform.
- Deploy credit risk policies, scorecards, models, and business rules into the decision engine and model platform with accuracy and speed.
- Monitor strategy performance, approval rates, rejection reasons, error rates, and overall system stability.
- Maintain thorough documentation covering decision logic, rule versions, data fields, test results, and deployment records.
- Act as the key liaison between the Risk Strategy, Engineering, QA, Operations, and vendor teams — clarifying requirements, tracking delivery, and resolving production issues.
- Provide consultation and hands on support to the Risk Strategy Team for strategy design, review, and implementation.
- Manage timelines and delivery milestones for system initiatives, ensuring cross functional alignment throughout.
- Lead end to end delivery of risk system projects, from requirements gathering and scoping through to testing, deployment, and post launch monitoring.
- Maintain project trackers, manage stakeholder communications, and surface risks and blockers proactively.
- Work within Agile frameworks using tools such as Jira and Confluence to manage sprints, backlogs, and documentation.
- Translate business and risk requirements into low to mid fidelity UI prototypes and wireframes to communicate expected system behaviour and interface design to engineering teams.
- Ensure that decision logic and workflow requirements are visualised clearly enough to reduce ambiguity during development and UAT.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3–6 years of relevant experience in banking, consumer finance, fintech, lending, credit cards, or similar financial services environments.
- Hands on experience with decision engines, rule engines, credit decisioning platforms, or strategy management systems.
- Solid understanding of credit risk processes, including policy design, scorecard deployment, and lending lifecycle management.
- Strong SQL or Python skills for data analysis, querying, and workflow automation.
- Ability to write clear and structured requirements, test cases, deployment documents, and issue analysis reports.
- Demonstrated experience in project management, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Familiarity with prototyping or wireframing tools to produce UI mockups and visualise system flows.
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and cross functional communication skills.
Job Details
- Role Level: Not Applicable
- Work Type: Temporary
- Country: United Arab Emirates
- City: Abu Dhabi
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