Digital Innovations & Settlements Department (Contractual)

sbp.org.pk; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi seeks an Innovation Hub Technologist to drive enterprise application development, integration, and go-live support. You will coordinate with stakeholders, manage CI/CD pipelines, and maintain APIs and developer tooling.

A strong background in multiple programming languages and databases is required. You will lead technical evaluations, build sample code and documentation, and ensure governance with security and risk teams while delivering reliable platform

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of enterprise application development or implementation experience.
• Proficiency in .NET, C/C++, Java, Node.js, and Python.
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Strong collaboration with business stakeholders and ability to lead technical teams through deployments.
• Experience coordinating CI activities and testing automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collect, analyze, and rationalize corporate IT needs with stakeholders.
• Budget and prepare business cases for budget approval.
• Research latest products and coordinate with OEMs or partners.
• Onboard participants and review architectures, integrations, and certifications.
• Own technical health of the Innovation Hub: APIs, sandbox, CI/CD, and services.
• Build tooling, SDKs, and reference integrations to speed up onboarding.
• Write documentation, guides, and certification checklists for participants.
• Run pilots/PoCs, recommend scaling or pivots, and manage governance with security teams.
• Monitor platform performance and assist troubleshooting for participants.

Skills

.NET

C/C++

Java

Node.js

Python

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related discipline

Job description

StateBank of Pakistan
Excellent Career Opportunities

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

Category Eligibility Criteria

Education

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.

Age

Maximum 40 years, as on the date of advertisement.

Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in enterprise application development or implementation.

Following skills and experience will be given weightage during assessment:

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (.NET, C/C++, Java, Node.js, Python)
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Strong collaboration with business stakeholders and ability to lead technical teams through deployments and deployments
• Experience of coordinating Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and related processes will be preferred.

Compensation

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

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.