AVP – Domestic Payments Engineering

Aligning IT and Business strategy to ensure that Technology is seen as an enabler to fulfill Business Objectives.

To lead Payment Platforms Portfolio in order to ensure timely completion of Projects Initiatives / Tasks within approved budget in order to meet strategic Technology Road Map.

Responsible for end-to-end management of UAE domestic payment platforms, including vendor coordination, stakeholder engagement, regulator liaison, and timely implementation of changes, with secondary responsibility of managing associated payments platforms as assigned.

To provide adequate support, guidance & motivation to the team members in order to ensure the achievement of assigned projects

Review team performance and deliverables in line with the approved KPI’s to ensure meeting desired objectives.

Coach, train and develop team skills by identifying training needs and assigning appropriate learning platform to the team.

To meet with stakeholders to discuss subject related to the projects/CR and provide them with necessary suggestions & recommendations.

To review and provide regular Portfolio status reports in order to update the management regarding status of current project initiatives and/or on the tasks assigned.

Ensure all assigned tasks and projects are executed within the approved policies, procedures and SLA of the department

Responsible for providing audit input requirements, close all assigned audit observations and provide closing evidence related to your area to IT-QA team or Audit team in a timely manner.

Familiarity with Agile, SAFe and DevOps methodologies.

Act as the technical escalation point during go-lives and production incidents; deep dive into application, database, and infra layers to resolve issues.

All the above accountabilities include but not limited to any additional/new tasks or responsibilities assigned by the line Manager.

Min bachelor’s degree in IT / Business

Master’s degree will be an added advantage

Min 10+ years in Information Technology

Must have hands on experience in implementing payments applications in a banking environment

Strong knowledge on handling CBUAE payment landscape including MX message formats and clearing mechanisms

Experience with microservices architectures, API gateways, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), OpenShift, Kafka

Guide engineering teams in applying best practices in Java, API, microservices, and database optimization.