Job Overview
Director of Digital Banking Systems Engineering – United Arab Emirates
Location: Remote (Based in UAE Time Zone)
Region: United Arab Emirates / GCC
Employment Type: Full-Time, Remote Executive Leadership
Sector: Financial Technology / Digital Banking Infrastructure / AI-Driven Payments
Position Overview
The Director of Digital Banking Systems Engineering will architect and orchestrate the next generation of digital banking infrastructure across the UAE’s rapidly evolving fintech ecosystem. This role is designed for a technologist who operates at the intersection of distributed systems design, real-time payments intelligence, and institutional digital finance, capable of aligning the nation’s open banking objectives with global interoperability frameworks and ISO 20022-compliant transaction systems.
The incumbent will act as the strategic nucleus for end-to-end digital banking transformation — from cloud-native core banking modernization to algorithmic liquidity optimization — leading multidisciplinary teams distributed across regulatory, cyber-resilience, and data-intelligence domains.
Core Responsibilities
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Systems Architecture & Design: Develop a modular, service-oriented banking architecture integrating multi-currency payment rails, digital identity layers, and tokenized asset management.
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AI-Enhanced Operations: Deploy reinforcement learning algorithms to predict transaction risk, optimize customer flows, and enhance fraud detection precision.
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Infrastructure Modernization: Oversee migration of legacy cores to Kubernetes-orchestrated, containerized microservice environments with zero-downtime resilience.
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Regulatory Compliance Engineering: Translate UAE Central Bank regulatory directives into programmable compliance layers using RegTech frameworks and AML-KYC automation.
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Data Governance & Privacy: Define and enforce UAE-aligned, GDPR-inspired privacy protocols for cross-border data residency and synthetic dataset generation for AI training.
Qualifications & Expertise
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Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or Systems Architecture.
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Minimum 12 years in digital banking or fintech infrastructure, including at least 5 years in an executive systems role.
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Expertise in ISO 20022, SWIFT gpi, OpenAPI frameworks, machine learning model governance, and DeFi-to-TradFi interoperability.
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Deep knowledge of cloud security architectures (AWS / Azure), quantitative payments optimization, and event-driven system scaling.
Cultural & Strategic Outlook
This position requires an acute sensitivity to the UAE’s fintech regulatory trajectory, a cosmopolitan grasp of international banking standards, and a future-oriented view of digital transformation as an instrument of macro-economic diversification. The candidate must exemplify not only engineering precision but strategic imagination — a rare synthesis of systems thinking and visionary execution.
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