Principal Lead - Customer Lifecycle & KYC Management
by First Abu Dhabi Bank in Banking & Financial Services
The role is a strategic leadership position responsible for defining, executing, and continually optimizing customer onboarding, CRM, and KYC management across Wholesale and Retail Banking. It drives CRM strategy alignment across marketing, sales, and service, ensuring customer-centric growth and regulatory compliance with AML, FATF, Central Bank rules, and GDPR. The mandate spans CRM architecture, onboarding platform development using .NET, C#, React, microservices, API-first design, and adoption of CI/CD and containerization. The role leads the integration of CRM platforms such as Salesforce, MS Dynamics, and SAP CRM with enterprise systems including ERP and marketing automation. The position leverages AI, ML, and Agentic AI to deliver intelligent onboarding workflows, applying advanced technologies for identity verification, fraud detection, document classification, and risk scoring. It collaborates with Data Science teams to build predictive models that reduce drop-offs, enhance efficiency, and ensure ethical and compliant AI operation. Responsibilities include managing KPI frameworks, ensuring data integrity and privacy, supporting regulatory audits, leading vendor management, enforcing governance, and ensuring continuous system improvement. The role provides subject matter expertise on complex onboarding and KYC cases and drives enterprise-wide CRM adoption, digital transformation, and operational excellence.