Job Overview

Chief Digital Financial Infrastructure Strategist – Kuwait

Location: Remote (Kuwait-Based Strategic Role)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Executive-Level Fintech Strategy

Seniority Level: Chief/Executive Leadership

Role Overview

This pivotal executive role provides large-scale strategic oversight of Kuwait’s emerging digital financial infrastructure modernization initiatives. The Chief Digital Financial Infrastructure Strategist formulates long-horizon frameworks for digital payments elevation, institutional connectivity, data-centric governance, intelligent automation, and cross-border financial interoperability. The position requires mastery over national-scale financial digitization, regulatory harmonization, complex architecture leadership, and multi-rail ecosystem transformation.

Core Responsibilities

• Shape a nation-aligned digital finance modernization blueprint integrating instant payments, intelligent routing, liquidity optimization, API-led interoperability, and multi-currency settlement engines.

• Direct conceptualization of infrastructure-grade fintech frameworks, including digital identity integration, unified KYC modularity, virtual account orchestration, and secure institution-to-institution data layers.

• Oversee transformation of Kuwait’s real-time financial messaging, including ISO 20022 harmonization, cross-border settlement logic, risk-weighted authentication, and high-availability network resilience.

• Establish intelligent automation engines leveraging ML models for transaction classification, risk stratification, fraud pattern sequencing, and automated dispute orchestration.

• Align all strategic outputs with Kuwait’s regulatory modernization trajectory, ensuring adherence to data governance, digital operational resilience, AML/CFT, consumer protection, and cross-institution compliance constraints.

• Drive microservice modularization and cloud-native scaling strategies to ensure system elasticity, multi-region failover, resilience engineering, and extreme-throughput performance optimization.

• Provide macro-level guidance to cross-functional innovation councils, regulatory bodies, and fintech consortium clusters working on transformative finance initiatives.

Required Expertise

• 12+ years of progressive leadership in financial systems design, national digital payments transformation, or fintech infrastructure strategy.

• Mastery of enterprise architecture, distributed systems, cross-border payment topology, data protection rules, and advanced risk analytics.

• Strong alignment with Kuwait’s regulatory, digital identity, and digital economy transformation frameworks.

• Demonstrated success in designing and governing large-scale digital financial ecosystems.

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