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

Job Summary

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

• Demonstrated excellence in API Banking with proven track record of supporting frontline and Implementation teams in delivering complex solutions while providing technical insights and solutions to meet client needs.
• Provide data-driven leads and comprehensive support across the deal lifecycle, from prospecting to acquisition, implementation, and servicing.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving Cash Deal Reviews (CDRs) related to API deals.
• Drive market-specific Product Technical Requirements (PTRs) to activate new API capabilities / corridors while capturing insights to enhance the Open Banking Marketplace (OBM).
• Act as a subject matter expert in the OBM to guide clients through discovery, implementation and actively contribute to OBM content creation.
• Support the integration of third-party solutions and artifacts, ensuring the pre-integration of strategic partners for streamlined plug-and-play solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Open Banking and Open Finance regulatory and industry initiatives at the market level by actively engaging regulators to facilitate Sandbox testing and ensure readiness for implementation.
• Lead expertise in consent management and user journey design for open banking and finance.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated excellence in API Banking with proven track record of serving corporate & Financial Institution clients.
• Strong expertise in Global Cash Management Practices, Trade products, Cross-border remittances, Transactional FX and Custody products
• Strong Product Management, Project Management, analytical problem solving and use of relevant tools.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing multi-market, medium to large scale product enablers and platforms in the transaction banking / Markets / Custody.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality deliverables under tight timelines while maintaining precision and excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree preferably in Information Technology.
• Fluent in English.

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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 bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.