Job Overview
Executive Director of Digital Finance Architecture – Cross-Border Payments, Platform Strategy & Financial Infrastructure Leadership (Remote – Saudi Arabia)
Strategic Industry Landscape
Saudi Arabia continues to position itself as one of the most ambitious financial technology ecosystems in the Gulf region, driven by large-scale modernization of banking infrastructure, rapid adoption of digital payments, enterprise financial transformation, and institutional demand for highly scalable financial platforms. The acceleration of open banking frameworks, enterprise payment modernization, treasury digitization, and cross-border settlement innovation has created strong demand for senior leadership capable of shaping next-generation fintech architecture.
An exceptional opportunity now exists for a highly accomplished Executive Director of Digital Finance Architecture to lead enterprise-wide fintech transformation across payment systems, platform modernization, API banking ecosystems, and long-term digital finance strategy.
This is a fully remote executive leadership role with major strategic influence across financial infrastructure modernization, institutional platform design, and future-facing banking innovation across the GCC landscape.
Position Mandate
The mission of this role is to architect, govern, and scale complex financial technology ecosystems that deliver:
- Enterprise-grade digital payments infrastructure
- Scalable API-led financial platforms
- Secure and resilient transaction systems
- Institutional banking modernization programs
- Cross-border financial interoperability
- Sustainable platform governance and growth
This position sits at the intersection of executive strategy, enterprise technology, and large-scale financial transformation.
Key Leadership Responsibilities
1. Enterprise Fintech Architecture & Strategic Transformation
Lead the definition and execution of enterprise architecture strategy across digital banking systems, payment rails, settlement infrastructure, merchant services platforms, and treasury modernization frameworks.
Drive the transformation of legacy financial systems into scalable, cloud-enabled, API-first financial ecosystems capable of supporting regional and international expansion.
Establish long-term architecture roadmaps aligned with executive business strategy and institutional growth priorities.
2. Cross-Border Payments & Financial Platform Leadership
Oversee strategic development of payment orchestration systems, merchant acquiring frameworks, settlement engines, and institutional transaction processing platforms.
Improve transaction resilience, financial system performance, and real-time payment capabilities across high-volume operational environments.
Strengthen payment interoperability across domestic and international financial ecosystems.
3. Executive Governance, Security & Platform Resilience
Define governance frameworks covering platform resilience, transaction integrity, operational continuity, and enterprise-grade system reliability.
Collaborate closely with executive compliance, risk, and finance leadership to ensure strategic alignment between technology modernization and financial governance expectations.
Strengthen architecture decisions around fraud prevention, security engineering, and operational risk management.
4. Executive Stakeholder Leadership
Act as a senior advisor to C-suite leadership across product, finance, operations, and enterprise transformation teams.
Translate technical platform investments into measurable institutional outcomes including profitability, operational efficiency, and strategic competitiveness.
Provide board-level visibility across technology modernization initiatives and long-term fintech transformation programs.
Core Technical & Strategic Expertise Required
- Enterprise fintech architecture leadership
- Digital payments and settlement infrastructure
- API banking and embedded finance ecosystems
- Core banking modernization
- Treasury systems and institutional finance platforms
- Executive governance in regulated financial environments
- Cross-border transaction systems
- Cloud-native platform strategy
- High-scale financial infrastructure transformation
Ideal Executive Profile
- 12–18+ years of senior leadership experience across fintech architecture, enterprise banking technology, or large-scale financial platform modernization
- Proven success leading institutional fintech transformation programs across complex regulated environments
- Deep expertise across digital payments, banking infrastructure, and enterprise financial systems
- Strong executive communication capability with board-level stakeholder influence
- Strategic decision-maker capable of balancing technology depth with institutional commercial outcomes
Strategic Business Impact
This role directly shapes how financial institutions scale across Saudi Arabia and the broader Gulf region by ensuring secure, resilient, and globally competitive digital finance infrastructure capable of supporting the next decade of financial innovation.
The successful candidate will influence not only platform design—but the strategic future of institutional finance itself.
Executive Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive executive-level Saudi compensation structure
- Fully remote strategic leadership model
- Long-term executive incentives linked to transformation success
- High-visibility ownership across national-scale fintech modernization
- Significant pathway toward Group CTO / Chief Digital Finance Officer / Board Advisory leadership roles
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