Senior Officer​/Manager – T24 Administration

Job Title: Senior Officer / Manager - T24 Administration

Location: Fujairah, UAE (on-site)

Contract: 1 year

Experience: 8-10 Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Industry: Banking / Financial Services

Specialization: Temenos Transact (T24) Core Banking Administration

Our client is seeking an experienced Temenos T24 Administrator to join the Core Banking Support team in a banking environment in Fujairah, UAE. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience administering, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Temenos core banking applications across Production, UAT, Staging, Development, and Disaster Recovery environments. The role requires in-depth technical expertise in the Temenos application stack, including TAFC, TAFJ, Oracle Database, IBM Web Sphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty, JBoss, TOCFEE, IRIS, MQ, and TCServer.

The successful candidate will take ownership of application stability, production support, middleware administration, incident management, batch processing, and release coordination to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of the bank's core banking platform.

• Administer, monitor, and maintain Temenos Transact (T24) application components across Production, UAT, Development, Staging, Pre-Production, and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Perform routine system health checks, service availability checks, application monitoring, and batch/job monitoring.
• Support development teams in setting up and maintaining Development, UAT, and Staging environments.
• Troubleshoot issues across the application, browser, middleware, database, file system, interface, and messaging layers.
• Monitor and coordinate application backups, data restoration, binary backups, and data archiving activities.

• Investigate and resolve application and integration failures involving Temenos Core, IRIS, TOCFEE, Web Methods adapters, MQ, GPFS or equivalent file systems, and Oracle Database.
• Identify root causes of interface failures, batch processing issues, middleware errors, data synchronization problems, and service disruptions.
• Provide technical guidance to support, development, infrastructure, and database teams during critical incidents.
• Take ownership of Temenos-related incidents and coordinate with internal teams and Temenos vendor support for timely resolution.
• Maintain incident records and contribute to problem management and preventive measures.

• Administer and troubleshoot Temenos application components deployed on IBM Web Sphere Application Server, including Liberty, JBoss, and Software AG/Web Methods integration adapters.
• Configure and maintain TOCFEE, MQ, and MDB components within the IBM WAS Liberty environment.
• Perform JBoss installation, configuration, and setup for IRIS components, including deployment and troubleshooting.
• Monitor JVM utilization, application logs, connection pools, MQ queues and channels, connection timeouts, and application locking issues.
• Troubleshoot interface-layer components, including TOCFEE, TCServer, IRIS, and associated integration services.
• Work with middleware teams to maintain reliable message delivery, error handling, retry mechanisms, and recovery procedures.

• Work closely with database administrators to support Oracle Database configuration, performance optimization, scalability, and stability in line with Temenos implementation requirements.
• Support Temenos application environments running on AIX 7.2.
• Monitor and troubleshoot file systems, including GPFS, in clustered and multi-server environments.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, database, and middleware teams during system outages, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) activities.
• Support capacity, performance, and availability management of the core banking application stack.

• Support application deployments, configuration changes, and environment readiness across Development, UAT, Staging, Pre-Production, Production, and DR environments.
• Coordinate scheduled releases, emergency deployments, core banking patches, and configuration changes with development, QA, infrastructure, and support teams.
• Ensure version compatibility and configuration alignment across Temenos components and associated middleware.
• Validate system readiness following deployments, upgrades, patches, and environment changes.
• Support release…