Samir M.-Freelance IT Business Analyst Banking | Payments | APIs
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Experience
(Interim) Product Manager
Schufa Holding AG
- Further development of the IT product lifecycle for products, services and APIs
- Establishment of API governance structures and delivery standards
- Integration of a specification design platform
- Definition of KPIs to manage products and services
- Management of strategic product initiatives
Management Consulting Payments
Accenture
Management Consulting in Payments & Digital Assets
- Analysis of regulatory requirements related to FIDA (Framework for Financial Data Access), and contribution to developing a technical point of view on data access and consent models.
- Conducting impact and gap analyses for PSD3 / PSR, and deriving business and technical requirements and roadmaps for regulatory implementation.
Product Owner - IT Modernization
Euroclear
Product Owner - IT Modernization
- Product Owner for a cross-functional Scrum team (10 developers) in the API Center of Excellence (CoE)
- Prioritization and maintenance of the product and sprint backlogs
- Stakeholder alignment with business, architecture and development teams
- Further development of the API program (API design, management, gateways, developer portal)
- Contribution to new API products (e.g. Funds API) and API monetization
- Identification of project-related risks and definition of mitigation measures
(Interim) Product Owner - Open Banking
BDO-Bank
(Interim) Product Owner - Open Banking
- Analysis of existing processes and structures in the API program
- Identification of opportunities to improve the API lifecycle
- Derivation and implementation of specific improvement measures
- Development of a new operating model based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Conducting workshops to align on requirements and the roadmap
Sr. Business Analyst
SWIFT
API Identity & Connectivity
- Advising business units on creating API specifications as part of an API-first approach (contract design, standards, versioning)
- Coordinating bank and corporate inquiries about API products (e.g. SWIFT GPI, SWIFT Go, KYC Registry) and supporting technical integration (SWIFT SDK, Microgateway)
- Ensuring compliance with API guidelines between OAS and DEV teams
- Reviewing, quality-checking and approving API specifications, including checking that relevant SWIFT message types are represented correctly
Senior Business Analyst
Commerzbank AG
Account Offboarding
- Analysis of the account and credit card offboarding process and the backend system landscape
- Derivation of business requirements and contribution to the definition of the target architecture
- Development of a cloud migration concept for the system landscape
- Alignment of requirements with international development teams (India, Bulgaria)
Senior Business Analyst
Commerzbank AG
Apple Pay Implementation - Payments
- Analysis and management of business requirements for integrating Apple Pay into the existing payment landscape
- End-to-end support for the implementation and coordination of all project stakeholders (Business, API cluster, Payment Service Provider, Apple, Visa)
- Creation of test cases and a test strategy for integration and end-to-end tests
- Coordination of test execution and quality assurance
Business Analyst
Commerzbank AG
Online Banking Features - Payments
- Analysis of business requirements and stakeholder alignment for the introduction of new online banking features
- Participation in PI Planning and management of dependencies between teams
- Creation and execution of test cases for integration and end-to-end tests
- Analysis of test results and identification and tracking of defects
- Support for the implementation of new features from requirements definition through acceptance
Business Analyst
Commerzbank AG
API Banking & IT - Transformation
- Support in developing business cases (loans and securities) for new API products
- API design (SwaggerHub)
- Coordination of API development for internal and external consumers
- Conducting workshops on introducing API banking in business departments
Managing Business Analyst & API Portfolio Owner Financial Services
Capgemini
Industry experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance and Information Technology.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Finance.
Summary
Senior IT Business Analyst with over ten years of experience in banking and payments, including at SWIFT, Euroclear and international banks. Focused on requirements engineering, API interfaces, and end-to-end support from requirements through business acceptance.
Skills
- It Business Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Ownership & Agile Product Management
- Product Backlog Management & Prioritization
- Agile Delivery/ Scrum/ Safe/
- Banking & Payments (Open Banking, Psd2 & Psd3/Psr, Fida)
Languages
Education
FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Bachelor of Science · Information Technology · Frankfurt, Germany
FRANZ BÖHM SCHULE
University of Applied Sciences Entrance Qualification (Fachhochschulreife), Economy & Technology · Economy & Technology · Frankfurt, Germany
BETHMANNSCHULE
State-Certified Commercial Assistant for Information Processing · Information Processing · Frankfurt, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Agile Service Manager
Certified Payment Professional
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Developing APIs with Google Clouds Apigee API Platform
Management of Risk Foundation
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
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Qualifications
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Samir speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Arabic (Intermediate).
Samir has at least 10 years of experience. During this time, Samir has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year. Note that Samir may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Samir would be well-suited for roles such as: (Interim) Product Manager, Management Consulting Payments, Product Owner - IT Modernization.
Samir's most recent position is (Interim) Product Manager at Schufa Holding AG.
In recent years, Samir has worked for Schufa Holding AG, Accenture, Euroclear, BDO-Bank, and SWIFT.
Samir is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology.
Samir is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Samir also has some experience in Quality Assurance and Finance.
Samir has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance and Information Technology.
Samir has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Samir holds a Bachelor in Information Technology from FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES.
Samir has 9 certificates. Among them, these include: Leading SAFe 6.0, Certified Agile Service Manager, and Certified Payment Professional.
Samir is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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