Executive Director, API & Open Banking -Cash and Trade
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Define and scale the bank's API-led propositions for Global Trade, Treasury Services, and Digital Assets. Own the strategic product vision, commercialization, and enterprise-wide adoption of API capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the API product vision and multi year roadmap aligned to Global Trade, Treasury and Tokenization strategy
- Position APIs as core channels for payments, liquidity, escrow, trade, and digital asset enabled offerings
- Identify and prioritize embedded finance, ecosystem led growth and tokenization driven opportunities
- Drive consistency and scalability across product lines to deliver a cohesive enterprise API proposition
- Own the full API product lifecycle from ideation and design through launch, scale and ongoing optimization
- Enable and scale direct integration of bank capabilities into client ERP, TMS, digital platforms and partner ecosystems
- Engage strategic clients and partners to co create and scale API led use cases
- Define pricing, packaging and usage based commercial models for API products
- Track and demonstrate value across CASA growth, fee income, client acquisition and retention
- Ensure API products are compliant with client money, safeguarding, operational resilience and data requirements
- Maintain alignment with Central Bank, FSRA / ADGM and other applicable regulatory frameworks
- Act as a trusted senior partner to GTB, Treasury, Digital Assets, Technology, Risk and Operations
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in transaction banking, treasury, digital platforms or product led financial services
- Proven track record of building and scaling API driven or platform based products in regulated environments
- Strong functional understanding of trade finance, cash management, treasury and settlement models
- Deep expertise in API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), API gateways, and service mesh
- Strong grasp of API lifecycle governance, versioning, and deprecation
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., Open Banking, GDPR, PSD2)
- Exposure to tokenization, digital assets, programmable finance or embedded finance is strongly preferred
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Role Overview
- The individual is responsible for defining, owning and scaling the bank's API led propositions across Global Trade, Treasury Services and Tokenized / Digital Asset enabled offerings.
- The role owns the strategic product vision, commercialization, monetization and enterprise wide adoption of API based capabilities.
- The role acts as a strategic bridge between business, technology, digital transformation and regulatory bodies.
Key Accountabilities
- Contribute to the development and execution of GTx and Wholesale Banking API and Open banking strategy across domestic and international locations.
- Define and own the API product vision and long term roadmap aligned with Global Transaction Banking, Treasury and Tokenization strategy.
- Position API and Open Banking capabilities as core differentiator for payments, liquidity management, escrow services and Next Gen propositions.
- Identify collaborate to create opportunities with Fintech partners for innovative use cases for Cash and Trade propositions.
- Drive harmonization and consistency across product lines to create a coherent, scalable API and Open Banking stack.
- Drive collaboration across business, technology and control functions.
- Represent the function effectively to senior management, external and internal stakeholders.
Product Vision & Strategic Ownership
- Define and own the API product vision and multi year roadmap aligned to Global Trade, Treasury and Tokenization strategy.
- Position APIs as core channels for payments, liquidity, escrow, trade, and digital asset enabled offerings.
- Identify and prioritize embedded finance, ecosystem led growth and tokenization driven opportunities through API and Open Banking infrastructure.
- Drive consistency and scalability across product lines to deliver a cohesive enterprise API proposition.
End to End Product Lifecycle Management
- Own the full API product lifecycle from ideation and design through launch, scale and ongoing optimization.
- Ensure API products are commercially viable, reusable, secure and client centric.
- Balance speed to market with long term resilience, operational robustness and regulatory expectations.
Client, Platform & Ecosystem Enablement
- Enable and scale direct integration of bank capabilities into corporate ERP, TMS, digital platforms and partner ecosystems.
- Engage strategic clients and partners to co create and scale API led use cases.
- Act as senior product representative in client, partnership and industry engagements.
Commercialization & Value Realization
- Define pricing, packaging and usage based commercial models for API products.
- Track and demonstrate value across CASA growth, fee income, client acquisition and retention.
- Leverage adoption analytics and performance insights to refine investment priorities and product strategy.
Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment
- Ensure API products are compliant with client money, safeguarding, operational resilience and data requirements.
- Maintain alignment with Central Bank, FSRA / ADGM and other applicable regulatory frameworks.
- Embed risk controls, transparency and reporting by design within all API solutions.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted senior partner to GTB, Treasury, Digital Assets, Technology, Risk and Operations.
- Provide clear, commercially grounded updates to the Managing Director and senior management forums.
General Responsibilities
- Promote API reuse and standardization to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
- Lead cross functional groups to align API strategy with enterprise goals.
- Maintain high standards of API documentation.
- Contribute to budget planning and resource allocation for API engineering.
- Provide training and enablement on API best practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in transaction banking, treasury, digital platforms or product led financial services.
- Proven track record of building and scaling API driven or platform based products in regulated environments.
- Strong functional understanding of trade finance, cash management, treasury and settlement models.
- Deep expertise in API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), API gateways, and service mesh.
- Strong grasp of API lifecycle governance, versioning, and deprecation.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., Open Banking, GDPR, PSD2).
- Exposure to tokenization, digital assets, programmable finance or embedded finance is strongly preferred.
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