Job Overview
Senior Fintech Security Operations Manager – Payment Fraud Intelligence & Digital Risk Monitoring
📍 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
🌐 Work Model: Remote-First with Regional Financial Security Oversight
Industry Transformation Context
The rapid expansion of digital payments, e-commerce finance, embedded banking, and mobile wallets has dramatically increased the complexity of fraud prevention within fintech ecosystems.
Financial institutions now require sophisticated security operations centers capable of monitoring millions of financial events in real time while proactively identifying emerging threats and operational vulnerabilities.
This role is designed for a fintech security operations specialist capable of defending large-scale financial ecosystems against evolving digital threats.
Strategic Mandate
To build and manage intelligent fintech security operations integrating:
- Payment fraud monitoring systems
- Digital transaction threat analytics
- Financial risk intelligence platforms
- Security operations automation
- Real-time incident response ecosystems
Core Responsibilities
1. Security Operations & Threat Monitoring
- Lead 24/7 security operations for fintech transaction environments and digital payment systems
- Monitor suspicious financial activity and operational anomalies across multiple financial channels
- Coordinate real-time incident response procedures for payment security threats
2. Fraud Intelligence & Behavioral Analytics
- Develop fraud detection models leveraging transaction behavior and operational analytics
- Build risk-scoring systems identifying abnormal customer activity patterns
- Analyze emerging fraud vectors impacting fintech ecosystems and digital commerce environments
3. Payment Infrastructure Security
- Secure digital wallet systems, payment APIs, merchant gateways, and transaction networks
- Build monitoring frameworks for authentication failures, account compromise attempts, and settlement anomalies
- Ensure operational integrity across real-time payment ecosystems
4. Security Automation & Response Optimization
- Implement automated threat response workflows improving operational efficiency
- Optimize SIEM environments and security alert management systems
- Build integrated dashboards for executive-level risk visibility and operational reporting
5. Governance & Regulatory Security Alignment
- Support compliance initiatives surrounding financial security regulations and operational governance
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and incident reporting environments
- Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, and compliance teams on security modernization initiatives
Technical Qualifications
- 7–15 years in security operations, fintech fraud prevention, payment security, or cyber defense environments
- Advanced expertise in:
- SIEM systems
- SOC operations
- Fraud analytics
- Threat monitoring tools
- API security
- Endpoint and network security
- Cloud security operations
- Experience with:
- Digital wallets
- Banking platforms
- Payment gateways
- Transaction monitoring systems
- Financial fraud prevention operations
Preferred Capabilities
- Familiarity with machine learning fraud detection ecosystems
- Experience in behavioral risk analytics
- Knowledge of financial crime prevention operations
- Understanding of cloud-native security monitoring infrastructures
Impact Dimension
You will help protect millions of financial interactions daily while shaping the operational security backbone of modern fintech ecosystems.
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