Faisal Ayyali

Experience

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  Invensys Skelta - Bangalore

  Jul 2000 - Nov 2004

  Software Developer
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  Digimaker

  Nov 2004 - Apr 2005

  Senior Software Engineer
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  Mashreqbank

  Jul 2005 - Jun 2010

  Analyst Programmer

  - Application Technical support- Business requirement analysis and client interactions - Prepare Software Requirement Specification documents. - Prepare detailed Design Documents to implement the requirements successfully within the estimated time line.- Involve in Coding and Unit testing. Prepare test cases. - Support User Acceptance Testing- Prepare Production Movement Documents and manage application release to production, - Lead a team of 4 developers, in company's offshore development center, Bangalore, India. Show less

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  Dubai Bank

  Jul 2010 - Dec 2012

  Business Solution Analyst

  My Responsibilities Include:- Ensure business continuity by providing 2nd level technical support for Dynamic CRM Applications and Report Requirements of various departments such as Branches, Sales, Operations and Call Center.- Ensure support calls logged in the call login system are resolved within the agreed SLA Time Frame, do the necessary system fixes and improvements. - Business requirement gathering, feasibility study and prepare functional/technical documents for change requests/ new requirement implementations.- Involve in the design, customization and coding. - Co-ordinate Unit Testing and UAT activities up to UAT sign off and production release.- Implement Data Extraction using SSIS Packages and develop SSRS Reports and CRM reports as per business requirements. Show less

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  Emirates NBD

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2015

  Senior Subject Matter Expert

  My Responsibilities Include:- Assess and analyze user requirements in order to translate them into information and reporting requirements. Do effort estimates, prepare functional specifications and perform logical data modeling and ETL design.- Responsible for supporting the architecture and design of the data warehouse, data marts and BI reports which will support various data initiatives.- Ensure the various reports requirements raised by Banks departments are delivered as per the agreed timeline.- Follow standards for data warehouse. Participate in design reviews.- Implement new data requirements in the data warehouse by creating data marts using INFORMATICA and COGNOS.- Interact with other host system application team for the new data requirements and implement in data warehouse through ETL.- Work on projects in all life cycle of the projects by interacting with business user and deliver the projects on time.- Make sure all daily/month-end reports schedules are working fine and solve any failure incidents reported, within the agreed SLA. - Manage change requests via established change management process. Show less

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  National Bank of Oman

  May 2015 - Jun 2021

  Manages payment systems of the Banking IT division and responsible for the technical support, maintenance and implementation of new business require- ments. Manages banking operational services such as:• SWIFT(SwiftAlliance,`swiftGpi,PaymentControl).• AMLSafeWatch(transactionscreeningonline/offlineintegratedwithchannelsand SWIFT Alliance)• ACH,RTGS,UAE-FTS(IntegratedwithCoreBanking,STP)• ECC/ICCS(ElectronicChequeClearingSystemintegratedwithcorebanking)• Salary/WPS• ReconciliationSystems• Integration with Core Banking• Manage technical team for business as usual technical support, production issue handling and maintenance/changes.• Vendor co-ordination for support and new requirement implementations.• Follow quality process and change management.• Implement new projects in Payment Systems by co-coordinating with businessusers, external vendors and in-house developers. .• Manage application design, documentations, testing, go-live and follow up toclosure.• Manage service adherence to security audit, operation risk audit and compliance Show less

  • Information Technology Application Manager

    Jan 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Assistant Manager

    May 2015 - Dec 2016
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  Bank Muscat

  Jun 2021 - now

  Manager BO Payments, Bank Muscat

  Manages Back-office Payments systems of Bank Muscat IT Dept. and responsible for the day-to-day operations, maintenance and implementation of new business require- ments. Manages and maintains banking operational services and applications such as:• SWIFT(AllianceAccess,ARG,SWIFTGPI).• SWIFTAncillarySystems-AMLEn.SafeWatch(transactionscreening),En.Payment Guard (Fraud detection), En.Reporting, En.Payment Safe(GPI)• ACH,RTGS,MMS-DirectDebit(LocalPaymentsintegratedwithCentralBankof Oman)• ReconciliationSystems(CoronasystemforNostro,andcardreconciliations)• Implemented SWIFT ISO 20022 MX standard for Inward messages in Swift Alliance Access 7.6.7 integrating with back office systems such as core banking, trade finance and treasury systems.• Manages the Back-office Payments IT Team of 6 resources , responsible for the support and maintenance of local and International payment systems- SWIFT, ACH, RTGS• Responsible for vendor co-ordination for supports , incidents, changes and projects. Achieved 99% SLA compliance for incidents and change management, exceeding business expectations.• Implemented AML screening / fraud detection for SWIFT, GCC RTGS payments and instant transfers seamlessly integrating with back office and payment systems and thus helped to achieve efficiency in compliance checks for crossborder payments.• Achieved 100% compliance with application security and vulnerability audit,SWIFT CSP Audit, operation risk audits.• Complied with SWIFT mandatory upgrades, security controls, SWIFT CSPexternal Audit, application internal and external and Central Bank audits.• Implemented Central bank’s compliance projects such as RTGS and ACH 24x7systems and Mandate Management and Direct Debit systems by integrating with back office and channels. Show less