Magnati is a regional leader in the payment solutions industry focused on direct acquiring, issuer processing and acquiring processing.

Magnati provides government, merchant and institutional clients with an intelligent payments platform that monetises data, using next generation technology to deliver improved experiences and increased efficiency. The Magnati brand is charged with energy and potential and is set to transform payments into possibilities.

Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Magnati’s expertise and relationships provide a platform for Magnati to attract international partners, while setting a new standard for innovation and delivery in the payments industry.

• Create solution architecture artifacts that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.
• Work with Service stream architects and developers to ensure software builds meet system, functional, and performance requirements and adhere to company policies such as security and privacy
• Design and refactor the company’s Payment Services platform
• Conduct POC & POV on potential solutions with a failure-fast mindset to drive the target state
• Architect large-scale target state Payment systems end to end, and with hands-on expertise
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to develop strategic architecture solutions that align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and future industry demand.
• Build common business functions and capabilities within the payment ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market
• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis
• Communicate technology vision, strategies, and solutions across communities and cross-functional teams
• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross-functional teams
• Active learner of technological innovations, payments industry trends, and competitor landscape
• Be an adviser to engineering organizations to adopt modern engineering practices such as continuous architecture, Inner sourcing, DevOps and SRE
• Ensure 100% compliance with regulatory requirements like ISO, PCI DSS, NESA, etc.,
• Supporting ongoing projects, such as expansion in new countries, integration, and procurement, with Card Payment & eCommerce expertise

• Broad experience in payment solutions
• Hands-on on Authorization, Clearing and Settlement Systems, Merchant Onboarding, Payout application, Cardholder (Issuing) Processing. Acquiring and Payments
• Card payments: Understanding of issuers, acquirers, and card schemes, interchange, cardholder authentication, 
• Understanding of payments switching, routing, use of cryptography, PIN operations, contact, and contactless protocols
• Emerging payment technologies: Understanding of emerging developments such as Open Banking, new payment rails, digital payments, new payment channels such as wallets, smart Point of Sale and ATMs, real-time cross border, blockchain-enabled crypto payments, central bank digital currencies, data in payments and financial crime developments
• knowledge of Fintech niches offerings in the payments value chain 
• Broad experience with technical modeling and documentation (Data Flow, Diagrams, Network Diagrams, Software Architecture Documents, etc.)
• Experience with PCI DSS and/or other corresponding payment security protocols
• Ability to communicate about solutions and possible challenges on a both conceptual and a technical level
• in speech and writing in English and preferably Arabic
• Expertise in building solutions with microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native principles
• Industry Certifications like CISSP, Open CA, TOGAF, Cloud Certification etc., are preferred