Senior Analyst – Payments Operations and Service Support
Role Overview
The Senior Analyst executes advanced technical and business operations workflows, manages vendor-level fixes, and coordinates production deployments.
The role bridges support and engineering by updating structural runbooks and resolving complex structural incidents.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Al Etihad Payments
Al Etihad Payments operates UAE retail payment infrastructure, standards, and solutions and is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE.
The organization works with licensed financial institutions and payment service providers and supports national digitization and cashless-society objectives.
Role overview
The Senior Analyst executes advanced technical and business operations workflows, manages vendor-level fixes, and coordinates production deployments.
The role bridges support and engineering by updating structural runbooks and resolving complex structural incidents.
Payment operations and support
- Execute daily reconciliation, resolve billing inquiries, correct invoices, and manage portals for Value-Added Services.
- Investigate complex transaction drops and timeouts, analyze payment inquiries, and run critical deployment-window validation tests.
- Communicate about the Aani service; categorize and route stakeholder incidents and requests, follow up, and provide timely status updates.
- Monitor payment operations and system health, use advanced monitoring, and support financial institutions during abnormalities.
- Manage disputes, engage financial institutions, monitor queues, and improve dispute categories and workflows.
Reporting and workflow automation
- Build, automate, and deliver structured daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual operational health reports and ad hoc performance views.
- Design and manage workflow automations in internal task-management software.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science, or equivalent professional engineering experience.
- At least 5 years supporting, maintaining, and troubleshooting major enterprise applications.
- At least 2 years working directly with high-availability banking and financial infrastructure IT solutions.
- Experience with central institutions, regulators, or operators is an added advantage.
Required skills
- Deep technical expertise in ITIL or equivalent service-management frameworks and Atlassian tools.
- High proficiency in financial ledgers, transaction parsing, billing validation, and balancing calculations.
- Strong experience in dashboard design, metric tracking, and reporting tools.
- Ability to configure custom workflows, fields, and automation conditions in Jira, Atlassian, or ticketing suites.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Grafana, Dynatrace, and DBMS.
Benefits and work environment
- The employer describes a modern work environment with some flexibility and a collaborative team.
- The compensation package includes an annual bonus and may include child educational allowance, annual flight tickets, and health insurance.
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