Job Overview

Chief Digital Payments Infrastructure Strategist – United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Location: Remote (Aligned to UAE market operations)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Seniority Level: Executive / Strategic Leadership

Sector Focus: Digital Payments · Real-Time Settlement · Open Banking · Cross-Border Rails · Fintech Infrastructure Architecture

Role Overview

The Remote Chief Digital Payments Infrastructure Strategist will architect, refine, and govern the next-generation digital payments ecosystem tailored for the rapidly evolving UAE fintech landscape. The role requires mastery in designing hyper-scalable multi-rail payment architectures, integrating real-time settlement engines, and orchestrating interoperable frameworks that align with the UAE’s ongoing digital transformation agenda. You will operate at the intersection of cross-border value transfer, cloud-native financial infrastructure, and data-driven supervisory intelligence—ensuring the UAE remains a leader in payment modernisation across MENA.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a unified, cloud-native payments infrastructure blueprint covering instant payments, domestic schemes, cross-border corridors, merchant acquiring, tokenised payments, and real-time liquidity management.

• Engineer multi-layered interoperability frameworks between open banking gateways, digital wallets, CBDC pilots, and API-driven merchant ecosystems.

• Lead high-fidelity simulations of settlement flows, liquidity risk exposures, and throughput optimisation for large-volume payment rails.

• Strengthen ecosystem cyber-resilience by implementing advanced cryptographic protocols, real-time fraud analytics, and behavioural transaction intelligence.

• Conduct strategic market assessments covering regulatory evolution, payments innovation, consumer adoption, and ecosystem maturation across the UAE.

• Design governance frameworks and operating models for sustainable scaling of digital payments infrastructure across diverse financial institutions and fintech ecosystems.

Technical Competencies

• Expertise in ISO 20022, EMV tokenisation, real-time payment standards, and interoperable API orchestration.

• Mastery of distributed ledger methodologies for settlement optimisation and programmable liquidity orchestration.

• Strong command of cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, event-driven microservices, high-throughput transaction engines).

• Advanced proficiency in digital identity frameworks, authentication layers, and risk-aware payments modelling.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 10+ years leading large-scale digital payments transformation across international markets.

• Proven track record architecting real-time, high-availability financial systems.

• Exceptional strategic foresight, regulatory literacy, and ecosystem-wide design capability.

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