About Us
Network International is the largest Financial Technology company in Middle East and Africa. Payments is our core business where we provide services in more than 50 countries – UAE, Jordan, South Africa, Egypt are some of our key markets. Apart from payments, we provide services on Data and Insights, Lending, Insurance, Risk Solutions, etc. Our core customers are businesses at every scale and segment, though recently we are growing in direct to consumer card segment as well.
Our EVP:
At Network International, we always stay ahead. . In the fast-paced world of financial services, we thrive on innovation, agility, and purposeful collaboration. We invest first in our people, empowering you to make bold decisions, learn fast, and grow your expertise alongside industry leaders. Here, solving complex problems means more than using cutting-edge technology; it’s about creating meaningful value for our customers, together. We foster a culture where trust, accountability, and achievement go hand in hand—because success isn’t just a goal; it’s how we work, every day, as one team.
About The Role:
The Switch Implementation Head will lead the end-to-end delivery, implementation, and optimization of payment switching solutions. This role is accountable for driving successful onboarding of clients onto the Network Flex platform, ensuring seamless integration with issuing, acquiring, and scheme ecosystems.
The incumbent will work closely with product, technology, operations, and external stakeholders (banks, schemes, vendors) to deliver scalable and compliant switching capabilities while maintaining high service reliability and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end implementation of payment switch solutions for Egypt market (issuance, acquiring, ATM/POS, e-commerce).
- Drive delivery governance across multiple concurrent implementation projects, ensuring timelines, quality, and budget adherence.
- Act as the primary interface between Egypt business, central platform teams, and external partners for all switch-related programs.
- Oversee integration with card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, Meeza, etc.) and ensure compliance with scheme mandates.
- Manage client onboarding lifecycle including requirements gathering, solution design, certification, UAT, and go-live.
- Ensure optimal configuration and performance of switching platforms (e.g., BASE24, Postilion, or equivalent).
- Collaborate with Product and Architecture teams to align Egypt requirements with global platform strategy (Network Flex).
- Drive continuous improvement in implementation processes, tools, and delivery methodologies.
- Ensure operational readiness, including handover to support teams and establishment of SLAs and monitoring frameworks.
- Identify and mitigate delivery risks, including regulatory, technical, and operational challenges specific to Egypt market.
- Build and lead a high-performing local implementation team, fostering accountability and technical excellence.
- Engage with regulators and internal risk/compliance teams to ensure all implementations meet local and international standards.
Key Requirements:
- 12+ years of experience in payments technology with significant exposure to payment switching and transaction processing.
- Proven leadership experience managing large-scale switch implementations in banking/fintech environments.
- Strong knowledge of card payment ecosystems (issuing, acquiring, ATM/POS, e-commerce).
- Hands-on experience with switching platforms (e.g., BASE24, Postilion, Connex, or similar).
- Strong understanding of integration protocols (ISO 8583, APIs, host-to-host).
- Experience working with card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, domestic schemes such as Meeza).
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and complex program delivery.
- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in payments (preferably Egypt market).
- Excellent problem-solving, delivery management, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience with Network Flex or similar modern switching/cloud-native platforms.
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS / Azure) and microservices-based architectures.
- Knowledge of real-time payments and digital wallet integrations.
- Experience in transformation programs or platform migrations.
- Arabic language proficiency (preferred for Egypt market stakeholder engagement).
Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in payments technology with significant exposure to payment switching and transaction processing
- Proven leadership experience managing large-scale switch implementations in banking/fintech environments
- Hands-on experience with switching platforms (BASE24, Postilion, Connex, or similar)
- Strong knowledge of card payment ecosystems (issuing, acquiring, ATM/POS, e-commerce)
- Strong understanding of integration protocols (ISO 8583, APIs, host-to-host)
- Experience working with card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, domestic schemes such as Meeza)
- Experience with Network Flex or similar modern switching/cloud-native platforms
- Exposure to cloud environments (AWS / Azure) and microservices-based architectures
- Knowledge of real-time payments and digital wallet integrations
- Experience in transformation programs or platform migrations
- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in payments (preferably Egypt market)
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and complex program delivery; excellent communication and delivery management skills
- Arabic language proficiency for Egypt market stakeholder engagement
Network International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Network International and has not been reviewed or approved by Network International.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is considered decent in some roles and is often paired with bonuses. Phrases like 'salary plus bonuses' indicate variable pay is a meaningful component for certain positions.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage extends to employees, spouses, and up to three children, alongside life insurance. This breadth signals a robust healthcare baseline for the region.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and termination benefits align with UAE/GCC norms, including pension contributions for nationals and end‑of‑service gratuity for expatriates. Such provisions indicate structured, region‑appropriate retirement support.
Network International Insights
What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
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