Partner Enablement Lead, API Banking (MENAP, E&A)

Standard Chartered; Dubai; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled professional to enhance its Corporate Investment Banking division. This role involves implementing innovative API-driven solutions that empower frontline teams and drive client adoption. You will leverage your expertise in API Banking, Global Cash Management, and Transactional FX to deliver exceptional results. Join a dynamic team committed to continuous improvement and innovation, where your contributions will make a significant impact on the banking landscape. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of banking through technology and collaboration.

Benefits

Core funding for retirement

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working arrangements

30+ days off including holidays

Wellbeing support

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven excellence in API Banking with corporate clients.
• Strong expertise in Global Cash Management and Trade products.

Responsibilities

• Support API Banking growth by implementing API-driven solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Open Banking regulations and engage stakeholders.

Skills

API Banking

Global Cash Management

Trade Products

Cross-Border Remittances

Transactional FX

Custody Products

Product Management

Project Management

Analytical Problem-Solving

Education

Master’s Degree in Information Technology

Job description

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Location : Dubai, AE

Area of interest : Corporate & Commercial Banking

The role supports and drives forward the growth of the Corporate Investment Banking (CIB) business by implementing API-driven propositions that enable front-line teams with complex, multi-market, and co-created solutions. It provides technical insights, reviews API deals, and delivers data-backed guidance across the deal lifecycle. The position defines market-specific API requirements, ensures compliance with Open Banking regulations, engages industry stakeholders, and supports API-led revenue growth and client adoption across markets.

Key Responsibilities

1. Demonstrate excellence in API Banking with a proven track record of supporting frontline and implementation teams in delivering complex solutions, providing technical insights and solutions to meet client needs.
2. Provide data-driven leads and comprehensive support across the deal lifecycle, from prospecting to acquisition, implementation, and servicing.
3. Review and approve Cash Deal Reviews (CDRs) related to API deals.
4. Drive market-specific Product Technical Requirements (PTRs) to activate new API capabilities and corridors, capturing insights to enhance the Open Banking Marketplace (OBM).
5. Act as a subject matter expert in the OBM to guide clients through discovery and implementation, and contribute to OBM content creation.
6. Support the integration of third-party solutions, ensuring pre-integration of strategic partners for streamlined plug-and-play solutions.
7. Ensure compliance with Open Banking and Open Finance regulations by engaging regulators, facilitating Sandbox testing, and ensuring readiness for implementation.
8. Lead expertise in consent management and user journey design for open banking and finance.

Skills and Experience

• Proven excellence in API Banking, serving corporate and financial institution clients.
• Strong expertise in Global Cash Management, Trade products, Cross-border remittances, Transactional FX, and Custody products.
• Strong product and project management skills, analytical problem-solving, and proficiency with relevant tools.
• Successful track record of implementing multi-market, medium to large-scale product enablers and platforms in transaction banking, markets, or custody.
• Ability to deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines with precision and excellence.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferably in Information Technology.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For over 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We challenge the status quo, love a challenge, and seek new opportunities to grow and improve. If you seek a purposeful career and want to work for a bank that makes a difference, we want to hear from you. We value your unique talents and look forward to seeing what you bring to us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our diversity, and our brand promise, to be here for good, are achieved through our valued behaviors. When you work with us, you'll experience how we value differences and promote inclusion.

Together we :

• Do the right thing, act assertively, challenge one another, and live with integrity, always putting the client first.
• Never settle, continuously improve and innovate, keep things simple, and learn from experiences.
• Work better together, be inclusive, appreciate others, and collaborate for long-term success.

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing.

• Core funding for retirement, medical, and life insurance, with additional flexible benefits in some locations.
• Time off including annual leave, parental/maternity leave (20 weeks), sabbatical (up to 12 months), and volunteering leave (3 days), with a minimum of 30 days off including holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements around home and office locations.
• Wellbeing support via Unmind, development courses, Employee Assistance Programme, and self-help tools.
• A culture of continuous learning with opportunities to reskill and upskill through various formats.
• An inclusive, values-driven organization that celebrates diversity and inclusion, helping everyone realize their potential.