Systems Techno-Functional Lead UAE

Driving advanced payment systems architecture, UAE domestic payment ecosystems, and financial technology governance in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, IT People Gulf is actively seeking an experienced Payments Systems Techno-Functional Lead for a permanent full-time professional engagement (Immediate to 10 days notice required; UAE based candidates preferred). In this vital techno-functional leadership role, you will take full operational, tactical, and technical ownership of the bank’s core payment systems, requirements facilitation, stakeholder road mapping, regulatory change management, solution design oversight, and end-to-end project delivery.

Bringing 10+ years of progressive professional experience in banking, payments, financial services, or regulated payment-system ownership, you will empower an elite financial institution to achieve uncompromised operational resilience, seamless regulatory compliance, and superior payment transaction efficiency. This prestigious career opportunity offers competitive remuneration, senior executive exposure, and professional growth within a leading global technical recruitment and consulting enterprise.

As a Payments Systems Techno-Functional Lead supporting IT People Gulf on a professional basis in Abu Dhabi, UAE, you will take full operational, tactical, and technical ownership of payment systems governance, stakeholder coordination, end-to-end project delivery, and vendor management. Your day-to-day responsibilities include serving as the primary techno-functional lead for the bank’s payment systems with a strong command of the UAE domestic payments ecosystem, collaborating closely with business stakeholders to clarify and document complex business requirements, shaping technology roadmaps, priorities, and regulatory change initiatives, providing technical and functional oversight of performance, risk, controls, and management reporting, supporting solution design, testing, and issue resolution (note: programming or coding skills are not required), managing end-to-end project delivery implementations including internal stakeholder coordination and vendor team supervision, and interacting directly with talent acquisition teams like Sarita Sakhare at IT People Gulf.

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• Lead and govern the bank’s core payment systems infrastructure with expert mastery of the UAE domestic payments ecosystem.
• Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders to clarify, elicit, and document rigorous functional and technical requirements.
• Shape and execute technology roadmaps, strategic priorities, and business transformation initiatives.
• Support critical regulatory updates, scheme rule adjustments, settlement procedures, and business process changes.
• Provide comprehensive technical and functional oversight of system performance, risk controls, and executive management reporting.
• Drive solution design evaluation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and rapid issue resolution without requiring coding or programming skills.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery implementations, milestones, and deployment schedules.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders, business units, and external vendor teams to ensure seamless project execution.
• Enforce rigorous governance standards, reconciliation protocols, and data flow controls across all payment channels.
• Maintain meticulous project documentation, architectural diagrams, stakeholder meeting records, and operational runbooks.

• Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent…