Payments Product Owner for UAE Banking (12m Contract)

Involved Solutions LTD.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 474,000 - 542,000; Full time

Job summary

Involved Solutions LTD. in the UAE is hiring a Product Owner for the Retail Payments pod, covering domestic account-to-account payments, cards and cross-border remittances.

This is a hands-on, critical-path role, not project management. You will co-own the product with the Business Owner, write BRDs/PRDs, design payment flows, and drive onboarding to UAE payment rails and card schemes through testing, certification and go-live.

Qualifications

• Owned a payments product from zero or through a major re-platform at a bank.
• Hands-on experience in account-to-account transfers, instant payments, cards or remittances, with the full payment lifecycle from initiation to reconciliation.
• UAE rails experience preferred: Aani, UAEFTS, UAEDDS, ICCS, WPS; CBUAE connectivity and certification desirable.
• Experience working across Tech, Ops, Risk and Compliance and able to run multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the product with the Business Owner and manage daily trade-offs on what to build and in what order.
• Write BRDs, PRDs, payment flows, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and own sign-off.
• Drive onboarding to UAE payment rails and card schemes through testing, certification and go-live.
• Design the customer payment journey, including limits, fraud and sanctions checks, returns and disputes.
• Manage the payments hub, card processor and remittance partners on scope, integration, pricing and SLAs.

Skills

Payments product ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Payments lifecycle knowledge

Tools

BRDs/PRDs

Job description

Involved Solutions LTD. in the UAE is hiring a Product Owner for the Retail Payments pod, covering domestic account-to-account payments, cards and cross-border remittances.

This is a hands-on, critical-path role, not project management. You will co-own the product with the Business Owner, write BRDs/PRDs, design payment flows, and drive onboarding to UAE payment rails and card schemes through testing, certification and go-live.