Job Overview
Global Head of Fintech Infrastructure Strategy – Digital Payments Modernization, Institutional Banking Platforms & Enterprise Financial Transformation (Remote – United Arab Emirates)
Strategic Industry Landscape
The United Arab Emirates continues to stand at the center of the Gulf’s financial technology evolution, driven by rapid expansion across digital payments, enterprise banking transformation, embedded finance ecosystems, and large-scale institutional modernization. As financial institutions transition from fragmented legacy operations to highly integrated platform-led models, executive leadership capable of designing future-proof financial infrastructure has become one of the most critical strategic priorities.
An exceptional opportunity has emerged for a highly accomplished Global Head of Fintech Infrastructure Strategy to lead enterprise-wide transformation across payment architecture, treasury modernization, banking platform resilience, and cross-border financial infrastructure strategy.
This fully remote executive leadership role offers major strategic influence across enterprise finance modernization, institutional technology investment, and long-term regional fintech competitiveness across the GCC.
Position Mandate
The mission of this role is to define, govern, and accelerate next-generation fintech infrastructure that delivers:
- Institutional-grade digital payments modernization
- Scalable banking platform architecture
- Cross-border financial interoperability
- Treasury systems transformation
- Secure transaction environments
- Long-term enterprise resilience and operational trust
This position sits at the highest level of strategic fintech leadership where architecture directly shapes institutional growth.
Executive Leadership Responsibilities
1. Enterprise Financial Infrastructure Architecture
Lead strategic modernization across digital banking platforms, payment orchestration systems, treasury operations, settlement engines, and institutional financial networks.
Design long-term transformation roadmaps for scalable cloud-enabled financial systems that support both regional and international market expansion.
Replace operational fragmentation with unified, resilient, enterprise-grade fintech architecture.
2. Payment Systems Modernization & Institutional Banking Leadership
Oversee strategic advancement of payment rails, merchant ecosystems, liquidity infrastructure, institutional settlement platforms, and enterprise transaction systems.
Strengthen payment speed, transaction reliability, and financial interoperability across domestic and international financial environments.
Support modernization of banking operations through infrastructure-first leadership.
3. Governance, Security & Executive Risk Oversight
Define governance frameworks for operational resilience, transaction security, fraud prevention, platform continuity, and executive financial risk visibility.
Partner with executive compliance, treasury, finance, and risk leadership to align infrastructure strategy with institutional governance expectations.
Strengthen enterprise decision-making across critical financial systems.
4. Board-Level Strategic Advisory
Serve as senior strategic advisor to C-suite leadership, executive boards, and enterprise transformation committees.
Translate platform investment decisions into measurable business outcomes including profitability, efficiency, resilience, and competitive market leadership.
Provide institutional visibility across multi-year transformation programs.
Core Strategic & Technical Expertise Required
- Enterprise fintech infrastructure strategy
- Digital payments architecture
- Treasury systems modernization
- Institutional banking platforms
- Cross-border transaction ecosystems
- Executive governance in financial environments
- Cloud-native banking transformation
- High-scale financial systems architecture
- Strategic platform resilience leadership
Ideal Executive Profile
- 12–18+ years of senior leadership across fintech architecture, institutional banking technology, or enterprise platform modernization
- Proven success delivering large-scale financial transformation across complex regulated markets
- Deep expertise across payment systems, treasury infrastructure, and banking modernization
- Executive communication strength with board-level influence
- Strategic thinker capable of aligning technical architecture with enterprise commercial growth
Strategic Business Impact
This role directly shapes how financial institutions across the UAE and wider Gulf region modernize their operational core by ensuring resilient, secure, and globally competitive digital finance infrastructure.
The successful candidate will help define the architecture of financial trust for the next decade.
Executive Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive UAE executive compensation package
- Fully remote strategic leadership model
- Enterprise-wide authority across institutional transformation initiatives
- Long-term executive incentives linked to strategic outcomes
- Strong progression toward Group CTO / Chief Digital Infrastructure Officer / Board Advisory Leadership
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