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

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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.