Open Finance Tech PM
Virtusa
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time
Program Management
Lead end-to-end delivery of Open Finance and Digital Asset initiatives from inception through production rollout.
Define project scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, and success metrics aligned to business OKRs.
Manage multi-vendor delivery streams (FinTech, custodians, blockchain service providers).
Chair project governance forums, risk reviews, and steering committees.
Track regulatory dependencies (CBUAE Open Finance Framework, VARA, FSRA, ESCA) ensuring compliance.
Technical Leadership
Partner with enterprise architects to define reference architecture for Open APIs, consent management, digital identity, and data exchange.
Coordinate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure secure, scalable, cloud-ready implementation.
Evaluate and integrate emerging DLT/blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Polygon, Corda, Hyperledger Fabric).
Drive proof-of-concepts for tokenized assets, programmable payments, and interoperability with existing core banking systems.
Ensure adherence to internal DevSecOps, CI/CD, and model-risk/governance processes.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
Serve as single point of contact between Business Sponsors, Technology, Security, Legal, and Compliance.
Manage onboarding and oversight of third-party technology providers, ensuring SLA adherence and contractual compliance.
Translate technical progress into executive-level dashboards, ensuring clear communication and escalation management.
Delivery & Quality Assurance
Define and monitor key delivery KPIs (velocity, throughput, incident closure rates).
Coordinate UAT, non-functional testing (performance, security, resilience).
Drive change control and release management in line with the Banks TMO standards.
About Virtusa
Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs.
Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.
Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrDNtTLKkPc; & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzhZt1GJvM)
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Lead end-to-end delivery of Open Finance and Digital Asset initiatives from inception through production rollout.
Define project scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, and success metrics aligned to business OKRs.
Manage multi-vendor delivery streams (FinTech, custodians, blockchain service providers).
Chair project governance forums, risk reviews, and steering committees.
Track regulatory dependencies (CBUAE Open Finance Framework, VARA, FSRA, ESCA) ensuring compliance.
Technical Leadership
Partner with enterprise architects to define reference architecture for Open APIs, consent management, digital identity, and data exchange.
Coordinate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure secure, scalable, cloud-ready implementation.
Evaluate and integrate emerging DLT/blockchain platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Polygon, Corda, Hyperledger Fabric).
Drive proof-of-concepts for tokenized assets, programmable payments, and interoperability with existing core banking systems.
Ensure adherence to internal DevSecOps, CI/CD, and model-risk/governance processes.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
Serve as single point of contact between Business Sponsors, Technology, Security, Legal, and Compliance.
Manage onboarding and oversight of third-party technology providers, ensuring SLA adherence and contractual compliance.
Translate technical progress into executive-level dashboards, ensuring clear communication and escalation management.
Delivery & Quality Assurance
Define and monitor key delivery KPIs (velocity, throughput, incident closure rates).
Coordinate UAT, non-functional testing (performance, security, resilience).
Drive change control and release management in line with the Banks TMO standards.
About Virtusa
Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs.
Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.
Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrDNtTLKkPc; & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzhZt1GJvM)
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
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