Digital Innovations & Settlements Department (Contractual)

State Bank of Pakistan; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Part time

Job summary

State Bank of Pakistan invites applicants for the contractual role of Innovation Hub Technologist in Karachi. The incumbent will manage IT needs analysis, budgeting, and vendor coordination with OEMs, while overseeing APIs, sandbox environments, and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes delivering developer tooling, documentation, and sample code to accelerate new participant integration and scalable launches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 16 years of education preferred from recognized university.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate IT needs gathering and stakeholder meetings.
• Prepare budget proposals and business cases.
• Research latest products with OEMs and assess offerings.
• Onboard and support participants from onboarding to go-live.
• Own technical health of the Innovation Hub (APIs, sandbox, CI/CD).
• Develop tooling, sample code, and reference integrations.
• Write and maintain integration guides and certification checklists.
• Evaluate pilots and PoCs and advise on scaling.

Skills

Stakeholder meetings

Budgeting

API integration

CI/CD

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE/IS

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Developer portal

SDKs

Job description

• Digital Innovations & Settlements Department (Contractual)

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the Central Bank, is looking for talented and energetic candidates for the following contractual position in Digital innovations & Settlements Department (DI&SD), based in Karachi.

Innovation Hub Technologist

Key responsibilities of the incumbent will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Corporate IT Needs collection, analysis, conduct meetings with key stakeholders and rationalization of the submitted IT needs.
• Required Budgeting and prepare business case for budget approval.
• Responsible for conducting independent research and arranging meetings with the OEMs about latest product and technology offerings. Ensure availability of proposed products and services from OEM itself, or through its authorized local partner.
• Partner with Innovation Hub participants from onboarding through go-live, reviewing architectures, debugging integrations, running certification, and enabling launches.
• Own the technical health of the Innovation Hub platform: APIs, sandbox environments, developer portal, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting services.
• Build internal tooling, sample code, SDKs, and reference integrations that reduce time-to-first-API-call for new participants.
• Write and maintain the documentation, integration guides, and certification checklists which the participants will use and improve them based on the feedback received from innovation hub participants.
• Run technical evaluations for pilots, PoCs, and new use cases and recommend whether to scale, pivot, or stop.
• Partner with security, compliance, and risk teams to make sure new integrations clear governance criteria in a smooth and efficient manner and without becoming a bottleneck.
• Monitor platform performance and lead incident response when things break.
• Assist both the team as well as onboarded participants in troubleshooting the technical solutions

Eligibility Criteria

Bachelors or Master’s Degree (16 years of education) preferably in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Systems / Computer Systems / Computer Engineering / Systems Engineering or other related disciplines from reputable HEC recognized domestic or foreign university.

Compensation

Competitive market based compensation package backed by attractive salary and well-rounded benefits structure as per Organization's rules.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates meeting the above-stated eligibility criteria may submit their applications online on https://career.sbp.org.pk/login . Last date of application submission is July 13, 2026. Applications, which are not in accordance with defined requirements in the advertisement, will not be entertained. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Females, candidates from minorities, transgender persons and persons with disability are encouraged to apply.

Any candidate who misinforms, attempts to influence the recruitment process in any manner, tries to obtain support for his/her candidature by inappropriate means or tampers with evidence of his/her age, educational and other certificates shall be disqualified from the current and any future recruitment process at the Bank; even if the candidate is otherwise eligible. Candidate who fails to provide the required information or documents or does not meet the specified criteria as per advertisement shall be disqualified from the current drive.