Commercial Bank of Dubai operates a full-service retail and corporate banking platform across personal, business, Islamic, and investment products, serving major UAE corporates for over 50 years. The tech stack is finance-and-compliance-heavy (SAS, SQL, Splunk, Kofax, Power BI) with emerging data science capability (Python, R, Scala, Go), reflecting an organization shifting from manual compliance workflows toward automated risk and KYC processes. Active hiring is dominated by finance and legal roles (51 of 97 open positions), while engineering and product remain minimal — a pattern consistent with their stated pain points around compliance risk, operational losses, and low digital adoption.
Tech Stack 17 technologies
What Commercial Bank of Dubai Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing operational losses
- Retaining corporate banking relationships
- Acquiring new corporate clients
- Compliance risk
- Portfolio monitoring
- Compliance with internal audit
- Low digital adoption
- Compliance with uae open finance regulations
- Optimizing hqla portfolio
- Ensuring compliance with scripts
▲Active Projects
- Policy framework development
- Documentation for compliance and legal aspects of facility disbursement
- Development of escrow system
- Implementing operational risk management framework
- Implement kyc and odd processes for wbg
- Legal tools development
- Launch new instalment products
- Kyc refresh cycles
- Credit card partnership development
- Digital marketing campaigns across paid search, social media, display advertising, email marketing, and affiliate channels
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Unit Head, Head Teller, Head of Tax
