Senior Card Platform Implementation Lead

Hiresquad Resources Private Limited; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Hiresquad Resources Private Limited in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks a Technical Card Implementation Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of card programs—from BIN setup to certification and production go-live—for consumer, wallet, and commercial cards.

You will collaborate with product and technology teams to enable digital wallets, ensure SAMA regulatory compliance, manage scheme certification, and drive on-time milestones for a greenfield issuing platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of payments technology and card-issuance experience.
• Experience delivering end-to-end card implementations.
• Strong knowledge of SAMA regulations.
• Hands-on with BIN setup, ICA assignment, and processor integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end technical implementation of consumer, wallet, and commercial card programs.
• Manage BIN requests, ICA assignment, processor onboarding, CMS integration, and payment scheme certification.
• Drive principal membership enablement and regulatory compliance with SAMA.
• Oversee card production, personalization, and digital issuance.
• Coordinate Apple Pay, Google Pay, and xPay integrations including MDES tokenization and 3DS configuration.
• Lead scheme certification activities (MIP testing, SIT, UAT, performance testing, security testing).
• Configure authorization, settlement, and dispute management processes.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across processors, schemes, and engineering teams.
• Manage project governance, risk tracking, and production stabilization after go-live.

Skills

Payments technology

Card issuing

End-to-end delivery leadership

Regulatory compliance (SAMA)

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

PMP or PRINCE2

Payment Certification (Associate/Professional)

Tools

BIN management tools

PowerCARD / Way4 / VisionPLUS

Apple Pay / Google Pay integration

MS Project

Postman

SOAPUI

JIRA

ICA assignment tooling

Job description

Hiresquad Resources Private Limited in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks a Technical Card Implementation Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of card programs—from BIN setup to certification and production go-live—for consumer, wallet, and commercial cards.

You will collaborate with product and technology teams to enable digital wallets, ensure SAMA regulatory compliance, manage scheme certification, and drive on-time milestones for a greenfield issuing platform.