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Assistant Vice President and Technical Architect System Integration

Gulf International Bank (GIB) is a pan-GCC universal bank that specializes in corporate and investment banking and has a growing retail footprint. Our strength and ambition to build on our superior experience over the last four decades has enabled us to drive our strategy forward, and evolve into a Gulf-wide trained institution that offers bespoke solutions to all our clients across the region. GIB, founded in 1975, provides client-focused, innovative financial products and services, including wholesale banking, treasury products, investment banking, asset management, financial market products, and Shariah compliant banking services. In January 2015, GIB launched u201cMeem by GIB,u201d the region's first customer-designed Shariah-compliant retail bank in Saudi Arabia offering a suite of innovative, non-traditional banking services. In addition to our main subsidiaries, London-based Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd., and Riyadh-based GIB Capital LLC, we have branches in London, New York, Abu Dhabi, Al Dhahran, Ri

A seasoned IT professional and a technology enthusiast; with over ten years worth of experience in the IT industry, having very wide - yet precise - and unique set of skills obtained throughout the years ranging from application development, software and database performance optimisations, software engineering, design, enterprise architecture, software architecture, implementation management, project management, business processes design and documentation, and team management of IT professionals. Specialised in Cards Payment Systems (EMV, PCI DSS, CMS, Visa/MasterCard/Benefit/SPAN/NAPS interfaces, reconciliation, and back-office payment-related processing such as VISA Edit Package and batch processing), core banking systems, as well as contribution in the development and management of the Retail Online/Direct Channels (Browser based Internet banking, as well as native banking applications on iOS, Android, and Win 8). Fluently speaks: C, C++, C# .NET, Objective-C, Java (Android, SE, JSP), T-SQL (MSSQL, Sybase), PL/SQL (Oracle). Knowledgeable in: .NET web interfaces (Web-services such as: REST and SOAP), and .NET applications (MVC and WebForms).