Head of API Excellence & Platform Strategy

Euroclear; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Euroclear is seeking Head of the API Centre of Excellence to lead the enterprise API strategy and drive transformation to an API-first organisation. You will own the vision, roadmap, standards, tooling, lifecycle governance, and a community of practice for secure, scalable API development.

You will manage a multidisciplinary squad, act as Product Owner for API platforms and services, and collaborate with architecture, security, and business domains to accelerate delivery and interoperability

Qualifications

• Proven experience in API strategy, integration architecture, or platform/product leadership.
• Strong technical and hands-on API expertise.
• Understanding of API lifecycle management, API gateways, security patterns (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), versioning, documentation standards (OpenAPI).
• Proven people leadership with coaching, feedback, high performing team management and agile environment.
• Ability to foster psychological safety, accountability, and collaboration within the squad.
• Strong product mindset: roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, and value delivery.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and refine Euroclear’s enterprise API strategy, standards, and best practices.
• Lead API CoE product roadmap (platforms, tooling, lifecycle management, governance services).
• Prioritise backlog, manage dependencies, and align with technology strategy.
• Define KPIs, success measures, and value realisation for API assets and integration capabilities.
• Lead and coach a multidisciplinary squad of engineers, specialists, and analysts and manage relationships with outsourcing partners.
• Recruit and onboard squad members; act as change sponsor at squad level.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on quality, automation, reusability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure reliable operation of API platforms and alignment with SDLC, security, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering Modernisation, Cloud, Cyber Security, and business tribes.
• Drive a community of practice, training initiatives, and reusable assets.

Skills

API strategy

Integration architecture

Platform leadership

Product ownership

API gateways

OAuth2

JWT

mTLS

OpenAPI

People leadership

Agile leadership

Communication

Change management

Tools

OpenAPI tooling

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

Euroclear is seeking Head of the API Centre of Excellence to lead the enterprise API strategy and drive transformation to an API-first organisation. You will own the vision, roadmap, standards, tooling, lifecycle governance, and a community of practice for secure, scalable API development.

You will manage a multidisciplinary squad, act as Product Owner for API platforms and services, and collaborate with architecture, security, and business domains to accelerate delivery and interoperability