Cards Technical Implementation Lead📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Hiresquad Resources is seeking a Technical Card Implementation Lead for a contract position in Riyadh. This role involves joining a leading BNPL fintech company that is launching mass-market consumer credit cards, wallet-linked prepaid cards, and commercial card products in Saudi Arabia. The Technical Card Implementation Lead will work closely with the client's Product and Technology teams to manage the end-to-end technical implementation, certification, and production launch of new card programs.

Role Overview

The successful candidate will own the complete delivery lifecycle for card programs, from principal membership and BIN setup through processor integration, scheme certification, digital wallet enablement, and production go-live. This position focuses on building a greenfield card issuing platform designed to support a high volume of customer transactions across the Kingdom.

Key Responsibilities

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

Success Measures

• Successful BIN setup and payment scheme certification within project timelines.
• On-time delivery of technical milestones.
• Zero critical (P1/P2) defects at production launch.
• Successful rollout of Apple Pay, Google Pay, and xPay.
• High stakeholder satisfaction and effective governance reporting.
• Smooth transition to BAU support following production launch.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this position.

Work Environment

This is a contract position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to a significant fintech initiative.