AI Platform Engineer Enablement And Governance Operations

TALENTMATE; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward in Dubai is building the future of open finance by designing and scaling the AI platform that powers Kraken and related services. You will own the technical surface from integration points to production runbooks, bridging gaps between capabilities and safe, scalable use across the organization.

The role emphasizes governance, OAuth and federated identity, tooling development, and policy-driven data controls, with close collaboration across teams to unlock real leverage from AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the technical layer of the AI platform, from integration surface to production runbook.
• Identify capability gaps between what's possible and what the organization can safely use, then close them by evaluating vendors or building internally.
• Own the governed integration gateway as an engineering surface, handling connector onboarding, authentication flows including OAuth and federated identity.
• Build internal tooling that extends the platform, including agent scaffolding, reusable skills and prompt assets, and evaluation harnesses.
• Configure and operate tiered spend controls across the AI estate, set caps by role and tier, and reconcile vendor commitments.
• Implement the technical controls behind policy on data handling, retention, and model eligibility, including identity integration and SCIM.
• Work directly with teams to unblock them and provide technical enablement through deep dives and knowledge-base material.
• Administer the enterprise AI estate end to end, including model turn ups, provisioning queues, and vendor configurations.

Job description

Building the Future of Open Finance

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.

Job Description

Building the Future of Open Finance

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.

Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.

The team

Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.

Enterprise Transformation owns Kraken's internal AI platform. AI tooling is deployed at scale across the org. Tiered spend controls are live, a governed integration gateway is in production, and a system inventory is being built against real regulatory obligations. The next constraint is not access. It's capability. The frontier moves every few weeks, and most of what arrives is a protocol, API, or primitive that someone has to turn into something the rest of the company can safely use.

The opportunity

• Design and build the technical layer of the AI platform, from integration surface to production runbook. Identify capability gaps between what's possible and what the organization can safely use, then close them by evaluating vendors or building internally.
• Own the governed integration gateway as an engineering surface. You'll handle connector onboarding, authentication flows including OAuth and federated identity, reliability, and vendor escalation when things break.
• Build internal tooling that extends the platform. Think agent scaffolding, reusable skills and prompt assets, evaluation harnesses for model changes, provisioning automation, and integrations between AI tooling and your systems of record.
• Configure and operate tiered spend controls across the AI estate. Set caps by role and tier, build alerting rules, manage exception queues, run monthly reconciliation against vendor commitments, and eliminate the current single author risk in cap automation.
• Implement the technical controls behind policy on data handling, retention, and model eligibility. This means identity integration, SSO and SCIM, entitlement by role and tier, and workspace configuration where retention terms differ by model class.
• Work directly with teams to unblock them. Sit with them, understand the workflow, build or configure the thing that enables them to get real leverage from the tools.
• Run technical enablement. Deep dives for tool rollouts, office hours for model releases, and authority over the engineering detail in knowledge base material.
• Administer the enterprise AI estate end to end. Model turn ups, feature enablement, deprecation, provisioning queue, vendor configurations, and seat true ups.

What You Bring

• Enterprise