International Consultant - Senior Technical Advisor (Fintech Sandbox)
Organization: UNDP Yemen, through Stars Orbit Consultants and Management Development (SOC). VA No. VA26/74 Position Title: International Consultant - Senior Technical Advisor (Fintech Sandbox) Duty Station: Home-based National or International Consultancy: International Duration: 7 Months Number of Required Positions: 1 Vacancy Date of Issue: 20 May 2026 Vacancy Closure Date: 26 May 2026 Expected Starting Date: 01 June 2026 To review the full job description, please click on the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15aBnrqSYSjbhPhC-AsHnTEHDvcAAPl08/view?usp=sharing Academic Qualifications - Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, Financial Law, Economics, or a closely related field. Minimum years of relevant work experience - Minimum 5 years of international experience in digital finance, fintech regulation, payment systems, software architecture, or financial technology platforms. - Strong experience in designing or implementing enterprise or government platforms involving workflows, user management, reporting systems, and secure access control is required. - Experience advising central banks, financial regulators, or regulated financial institutions is highly desirable. - Strong technical background in assessing IT infrastructure requirements for financial systems and supporting central banks in vendor oversight (portals, servers, SoftPOS, QR standards). - Experience with legacy-to-modern system integration, data migration, or interoperability between institutional systems is an advantage. - Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and providing day-to-day technical direction to local consultants or developers is required. - Strong ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into system architecture, data models, and functional platform designs. - Experience designing and reviewing digital platforms with user management, workflow automation, role-based access control, and audit trails. - Solid understanding of API-based integration and interoperability between systems (e.g. payments, core banking, portals, and external services). - Experience working with databases, data structuring, and reporting layers, including performance considerations and data integrity in transactional systems. - Ability to assess and guide vendor technical outputs across system design, development, testing, and deployment phases. - Practical experience with legacy system environments and their integration with modern platforms. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in complex, multi-stakeholder technical environments. - Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including central bank counterparts. - Experience delivering hands-on technical guidance and knowledge transfer to institutional teams. - Experience working on financial systems, microfinance platforms, insurance systems, or public-sector digital infrastructure is an advantage. Required Language(s) - Fluent in English. Working knowledge of Arabic is a significant advantage given the working context with CBY.