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About the Role
The Technology Senior Solutions Analyst provides UAE-based technology consultancy and functional delivery support for Global Payments Solutions (GPS). This role focuses on regulator-led initiatives, including the UAE Financial Infrastructure Transformation (FIT) programme and RTGS Modernisation, alongside wider payments initiatives across the MENAT region.
The role covers cross-border, cross-currency and domestic payments, including ISO 20022 messaging standards and high-value, low-value and real-time payment rails. It translates business and regulatory requirements into practical solution designs, supports testing and implementation, and contributes to production stability. Based in the UAE, the role enables direct stakeholder engagement and timely local decision-making while working closely with distributed engineering, architecture, and service-support teams.
Responsibilities
As a Technology Senior Solutions Analyst, you’ll:
- Provide senior payments domain and functional expertise across UAE and MENAT initiatives.
- Support the delivery of regulatory programmes, including FIT and RTGS Modernisation.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into solution designs, process flows, functional requirements, and customer journeys.
- Lead end-to-end change across requirements, design, testing, implementation, and deployment.
- Act as a Regional Product Owner in Scaled Agile delivery environments.
- Manage Jira backlogs, priorities, dependencies, risks, issues, and defects.
- Support testing, implementation readiness, and production stability.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of production incidents, including root-cause analysis and remediation.
- Work with architects and delivery teams on target architecture, roadmaps, and modern payment platforms.
- Provide expertise across payment transparency, sanctions screening, fraud controls, transaction monitoring, liquidity, reconciliation, and FX transparency.
- Contribute to Digital Assets and Currencies initiatives, including CBDC, mBridge, and tokenised deposits.
- Manage relationships with senior stakeholders, regulators, central banks, vendors, and distributed technology teams.
- Mentor colleagues and support knowledge sharing through clear documentation and reusable guidance.
Experience and Skills
We’re looking for someone with:
- A full-time graduation degree of at least three years is essential for obtaining a UAE visa and/or work permit. For degrees obtained outside the UAE, valid attestations and equivalency are also mandatory.
- Strong experience in payments technology, functional analysis, or solution delivery.
- Detailed knowledge of cross-border, cross-currency, and domestic payment processing.
- Experience with high-value, low-value, and real-time payment clearing systems.
- Experience delivering complex regulatory or technology change across front-to-back processes.
- Strong understanding of requirements gathering, solution design, testing, and implementation.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies, Jira, and Confluence.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- The ability to lead through influence across regional and globally distributed teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex requirements.
- Experience working with payment platforms, transaction processing, and production support environments.
