Job Overview

Head of Financial Risk Engineering- Regulatory Systems & Compliance Automation

GCC Market Alignment: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Work Mode: Fully Remote | Regulation-Intensive Fintech Environment

Role Level: Senior Leadership / Systems Governance

Role Rationale (Regulatory-Centric Format)

This position is designed for a fintech leader who understands that modern financial regulation is a systems engineering problem. The Head of Financial Risk Engineering & Regulatory Systems is responsible for building fintech platforms where compliance, monitoring, and governance are embedded at the architectural level, not layered on afterward.

The role sits at the intersection of risk modeling, regulatory interpretation, and financial systems design, ensuring fintech platforms remain auditable, transparent, and resilient under regulatory scrutiny.

Primary Objective

To engineer fintech systems in which risk controls, compliance workflows, and regulatory reporting are native system capabilities, automated, scalable, and verifiable in real time.

Key Responsibilities

Risk Architecture & Control Systems

• Design system-level risk control frameworks across transaction flows.

• Define rules engines for behavioral monitoring and exposure management.

• Architect fraud detection and transaction surveillance pipelines.

Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Systems

• Translate regulatory requirements into executable system logic.

• Architect automated reporting frameworks and compliance dashboards.

• Define audit trails, data lineage, and evidentiary record systems.

Governance & Oversight Frameworks

• Establish governance models for fintech risk and compliance systems.

• Define escalation, exception handling, and incident response workflows.

• Prepare platforms for regulatory examination and ongoing supervision.

Required Expertise

• 12+ years in fintech risk systems, RegTech, or financial compliance engineering.

• Strong technical fluency in transaction monitoring and control systems.

• Experience building compliance-by-design fintech platforms.

• Ability to lead independently at senior system-governance level.

Role Structure

• Fully remote, aligned with Saudi Arabia’s regulatory environment.

• Strategic leadership role with long-term system ownership.

• Compensation benchmarked to international fintech governance leadership roles.

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