Job Overview
Digital Payments Infrastructure- Transactional Resilience & Settlement Engineering (Dubai, UAE)
Working Model: Fully Remote
Strategic Financial Reference: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Engagement Type: Full-Time | International Fintech Mandate
Primary Domain: Digital Payments Infrastructure, Transaction Networks, Settlement Engineering
Strategic Purpose of the Role
This role is conceived for a senior fintech professional entrusted with safeguarding and advancing the structural integrity, resilience, and evolutionary trajectory of global digital payment systems. It addresses the reality that modern payment infrastructures are no longer isolated technical systems, but systemically critical financial networks that must operate continuously under extreme transaction volumes, regulatory diversity, and operational stress.
Operating fully remotely while aligned with Dubai’s position as a global financial and payments hub, the role demands authority over the entire transactional lifecycle—from initiation and routing to clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and post-transaction intelligence. The successful candidate will influence not only how payment systems perform today, but how they are architected to endure future scale and complexity.
Core Responsibilities & Scope of Authority
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Architect and govern end-to-end digital payment infrastructures, integrating initiation, authorisation, routing, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation layers
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Design high-availability, low-latency transaction networks capable of sustaining global transaction volumes with deterministic performance
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Define settlement and reconciliation frameworks supporting multi-currency and cross-border payment activity
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Establish architectural standards for transactional resilience, redundancy, and fault isolation
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Lead the development of long-term payment infrastructure roadmaps aligned with global fintech evolution
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Act as a senior architectural authority across distributed engineering, data, and financial operations environments
Professional Background & Expertise
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15–22 years of experience in fintech payments, transaction systems, or financial infrastructure engineering
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Deep mastery of payment lifecycles, settlement logic, and transaction orchestration architectures
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Advanced expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and event-driven processing models
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Proven experience designing infrastructures that operate across multiple jurisdictions and currencies
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Exceptional analytical depth, architectural documentation discipline, and remote collaboration maturity
Compensation & Engagement Structure
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Annual Compensation Range: AED 620,000 – 940,000 (tax-free)
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Performance-linked annual incentive framework
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Fully remote engagement with optional strategic alignment sessions associated with Dubai
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