Senior Technical Practitioner - Financial Services
Description
Senior Technical Practitioner — Financial Services
About the Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Technical Practitioner to join a long-term engagement with a fast-growing, technology-driven financial services organization.
This is a highly senior, hands-on individual contributor opportunity for someone who can operate as a peer to experienced engineering teams , shape architecture, identify technical risks, and solve complex, ambiguous problems.
This is not a traditional staff-augmentation or ticket-delivery role . You will be expected to bring independent technical judgment, challenge assumptions, review architectural and engineering decisions, and transfer knowledge to the broader organization.
What You'll Do
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Work closely with senior engineering and technology stakeholders to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems.
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Shape and review architecture for highly scalable, secure, and reliable financial systems.
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Design and improve production-critical systems involving payments, transaction processing, banking infrastructure, ledgers, or related financial platforms.
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Investigate complex technical issues beyond surface-level troubleshooting and identify underlying risks and opportunities.
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Challenge technical assumptions and provide clear, actionable recommendations.
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Participate in architecture and code reviews with highly experienced engineers.
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Drive initiatives from problem definition through solution, without requiring detailed task decomposition or constant supervision.
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Help establish engineering best practices around reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
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Share expertise and mentor experienced engineers through hands-on collaboration and technical discussions.
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Operate comfortably in an environment where requirements may be evolving and problems are not always clearly defined.
What We're Looking For
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15+ years of relevant software engineering experience .
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Proven experience operating at Staff, Principal, Architect, or equivalent senior individual-contributor level .
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Strong track record designing, building, and owning complex production systems.
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Deep experience within financial services , such as:
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Banking systems
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Payments infrastructure
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Transaction processing
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Ledgers and financial data systems
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Regulated financial infrastructure
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Other production-critical, high-stakes financial systems
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Strong AWS expertise , particularly in complex production environments.
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Hands-on experience with areas such as:
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Reliability and resilience
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Security
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Observability
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Infrastructure architecture
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Operating production workloads in regulated environments
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Ability to independently frame problems, investigate deeply, identify risks, and drive solutions.
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Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with highly experienced technical peers.
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Willingness to constructively challenge existing technical decisions when appropriate.
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Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge and raise the technical capability of the wider engineering organization.
Particularly Relevant Experience
Experience with any of the following will be highly valuable:
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Cross-border payments
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International remittances
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Multi-currency systems
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Digital banking or fintech platforms
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Financial ledgers
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Payment processing at scale
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Regulated financial services environments
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Experience with regulatory frameworks such as ADGM, DFSA, FCA, EU equivalents, or comparable jurisdictions
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate is someone who:
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Can take an undefined technical problem and create structure around it.
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Doesn't wait for problems to be fully decomposed before taking action.
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Has the technical depth to challenge decisions made by other senior engineers.
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Can identify risks that may not be immediately obvious.
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Makes pragmatic, technically sound recommendations.
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Has personally owned systems operating at meaningful production scale.
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Can move fluidly between hands-on engineering, architecture, technical review, and mentoring.
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Acts as a trusted technical peer rather than simply an execution resource.
Location & Engagement
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Location: Ideally EMEA
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Engagement: Full-time
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Duration: Long-term
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Working hours: Must have meaningful overlap with Dubai / Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4)
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Relocation: There may be an opportunity or requirement to relocate to Dubai depending on the long-term engagement and mutual fit.
Interview Process
The process is expected to assess both technical depth and senior-level problem solving, including:
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Case-based architecture: Working through an ambiguous real-world technical problem.
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Systems design: Designing systems at scale, particularly around payments, ledgers, transaction processing, or cross-border financial infrastructure.
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AWS deep dive: Reliability, security, observability, and infrastructure decisions in production and regulated environments.
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Senior-level collaboration: Examples of challenging technical decisions, influencing peers, mentoring experienced engineers, and independently driving complex initiatives.