Job Overview

Principal Digital Asset Systems & Regulatory Architecture Lead – United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Location: Remote (Global) – Aligned to UAE Time Zone

Sector Focus: Digital Assets • RegTech • Advanced Banking Infrastructure • Institutional Digital Finance

Engagement: Full-Time, Executive-Level

Role Overview

The UAE continues to define the region’s most accelerated digital-finance ecosystem—linking virtual asset frameworks, cross-border settlement infrastructures, and sovereign innovation sandboxes. This role leads the architectural, regulatory, and operational blueprint for next-generation digital-asset systems supporting institutional-grade financial operations.

The Principal Lead will own full-stack architectural governance for digital-asset issuance, custody, tokenization infrastructure, cross-chain interoperability, AML/CTF digital compliance, and embedded risk-intelligence systems. The remit extends across conceptual frameworks, systems engineering, market-structure modelling, regulatory alignment, and enterprise-wide digital-finance strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory & Compliance Architecture

• Design and maintain regulatory-aligned digital-asset operating models consistent with evolving UAE virtual-asset frameworks.

• Develop institution-level RegTech engines integrating transactional monitoring, behavioral analytics, on-chain forensics, and continuous risk scoring.

• Establish enterprise-grade governance systems for tokenized financial instruments.

Digital-Finance Systems Engineering

• Architect end-to-end digital-asset platforms, including issuance layers, multi-sig custody protocols, and hardened key-management systems.

• Lead technical decisions across cross-chain communication protocols, Layer-2 scaling systems, and interoperability execution.

Institutional Digital-Asset Strategy

• Define institutional digital-finance roadmaps supporting banks, payment processors, wealth-tech providers, and sovereign innovation programmes.

• Conduct scenario simulations for market risks, liquidity shocks, and macro-structural digital-asset adoption trajectories.

Requirements

• 10+ years in fintech, digital assets, regulatory systems, or advanced financial architectures.

• Mastery of blockchain infrastructure (Layer-1, Layer-2, custody, smart contracts).

• Expertise in regulatory technology, AML/CTF automation, and digital-asset market structures.

• Strong architectural leadership and multi-jurisdictional compliance experience.

What This Role Offers

• Influence UAE’s global digital-finance positioning.

• Architect high-impact, institution-scale systems.

• Operate at the intersection of regulation, technology, and market structure.

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