Implementation Senior Consultant

Visa Visa · Fintech · AE - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Senior Consultant role at Visa focused on leading complex client onboardings and implementations of Visa's payment platform and APIs. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor, guiding clients on platform usage, resolving complex issues, owning delivery governance, and partnering with Product and Engineering teams. Requires strong project management skills and experience in regulated environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead complex client onboardings and implementations with multiple dependencies or regulatory constraints.
  2. Act as trusted advisor on how clients can best leverage the platform and APIs to meet requirements.
  3. Lead advanced platform and API demos, including deep dives into capabilities, patterns, and limitations.
  4. Guide resolution of complex client issues, escalations, and ambiguous problems.
  5. Own delivery governance, onboarding strategy, and escalation management.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor Degree or Advanced Degree
  • 8+ years of relevant work experience
  • Project management
  • Customer-oriented view
  • Deployment requirements knowledge

Nice to have

  • Led the certification and implementation of Jaywan and AEP switch in UAE
  • Operated in cloud, microservices, API/streaming architectures
  • familiar with rigorous change control, release, and resiliency practices
  • Regulatory savvy (GCC banking and payment controls, risk frameworks)
  • proven delivery to audit/compliance expectations
  • Expertise in building and scaling high-performing teams
  • hands-on leadership style
  • Proven ability to deliver complex, multi-market projects on time and within scope
  • leveraging advanced project management methodologies (Agile, Lean, and hybrid models)
  • pragmatic, results-oriented approach
  • forging strong, trust-based relationships with C-level executives, clients, and cross-functional partners
  • translating business strategy into actionable plans
  • optimizing processes
  • driving continuous improvement
  • data-driven decision-making
  • KPI management

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory constraints
  • complex client issues
  • ambiguous problems
  • delivery governance
  • onboarding strategy
  • escalation management
  • rigorous change control
  • release, and resiliency practices
  • Regulatory savvy
  • audit/compliance expectations
  • complex, multi-market projects