Hands-on techno-functional consultant supporting and evolving an FIS ALS lending platform during mainframe modernization. Responsibilities include eliciting requirements, mapping current and future lending processes, producing BRDs, FRDs, functional and technical specifications, defining acceptance criteria, analyzing ALS functionality and interfaces, validating batch outputs and data flows, and supporting upgrades, integrations, testing, and production releases. Requires deep FIS ALS experience, mortgage or consumer lending expertise, mainframe knowledge, SQL, and regulatory change delivery experience.
This is a remote position.
FIS ALS Techno-Functional Consultant
- Location: Onsite/hybrid, Dublin, Ireland. Remote considered for candidates based elsewhere in Europe, subject to client approval.
- Engagement: Contract, long-term
- Day rate: [TBC — confirmed on application]
- Right to work: Right to work in Ireland or the EU required. No sponsorship available on this engagement.
About the role..
A techno-functional consultant is required to support and evolve a major bank lending platform built on FIS ALS, currently undergoing mainframe modernisation.
The role sits with the ALS development team. You will turn business need into specifications a mainframe developer can build from, and tests that prove the change behaved as specified. The work is inside the system: tracing why an account behaved as it did, identifying the parameter driving it, verifying overnight cycle output, and reconciling what ALS sends downstream against what arrives.
This is a hands-on technical role, not a coordination role.
Requirements
Essential skills
- Hands-on FIS ALS experience. This is a hard requirement and cannot be substituted by general lending experience.
- 8+ years' experience, the majority in mortgage or consumer lending — loan servicing, escrow, default management and collections.
- Working knowledge of the mainframe stack underpinning ALS: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
- Specification craft: Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Documents, functional and technical specifications, acceptance criteria, current- and future-state process mapping.
- Requirements elicitation through workshops and stakeholder interviews.
- Ability to specify interfaces, batch processing, file-based feeds and data mapping between ALS, core banking and treasury systems.
- SQL and RDBMS concepts, sufficient to validate your own analysis.
- Experience delivering regulatory and compliance-driven lending change.
- Experience across tiered environments: Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Production, Production and DR.
Desirable
- Prior work on ALS upgrades, patches or FIS vendor releases.
- Experience on a mainframe modernisation or platform migration programme.
Key responsibilities
Business and functional analysis
- Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
- Run workshops, interviews and requirement elicitation sessions.
- Analyse current- and future-state lending processes.
- Produce BRDs, FRDs and user stories, with acceptance criteria and business rules.
ALS platform analysis
- Analyse ALS functionality across loan servicing, escrow, default management and customer account management.
- Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing lending processes and downstream systems.
- Support ALS upgrade and enhancement initiatives.
Technical analysis
- Prepare detailed functional and technical specifications for development.
- Analyse system interfaces and data flows.
- Work with developers on batch processing, file-based interfaces, integrations, and data mapping and transformation.
- Support solution design discussions and release activity through to production.
Benefits
What we offer
- Long-term engagement on a high-visibility lending transformation programme.
- Onsite/hybrid working in Dublin, or remote within Europe subject to client approval.
- Day rate confirmed on application.
To apply
- Which ALS modules you have worked in, and what you did in them.
- Whose lending book it was.
- Approximately which release the estate was on.
- One change you specified end to end, including what went wrong with it.
- Applications are reviewed against the covering note first.
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