This is an outstanding opportunity for an API specialist to drive the design, governance and full lifecycle management of an open API ecosystem, enabling secure and reliable integration with partners, fintechs, merchants and aggregators. The position is central to accelerating partner-led innovation, growing API adoption, and shaping developer experience and monetisation opportunities. This role suits a specialist who is passionate about open ecosystems, API security and building strong technical relationships with external partners.

Responsibilities

Manage the full API lifecycle from design and development through to versioning and retirement.
Maintain the API catalogue and developer portal, ensuring documentation is accurate and current.
Govern API design standards, naming conventions and best practices across the organisation.
Support and streamline partner and merchant API onboarding activities.
Implement and enforce API security standards, including OAuth2 and JWT, across all exposed APIs.
Define and maintain API access control policies, rate limiting and consumption rules.
Monitor ongoing API compliance against internal governance and external regulatory or audit requirements.
Provide technical guidance and support to external developers, fintechs and partner integration teams.
Manage sandbox environments and certification or testing processes for new partner integrations.
Act as a key technical point of contact for partner escalations relating to API integration issues.
Monitor API usage, adoption trends and consumption patterns across the partner ecosystem.
Track API performance, availability and error rates against defined service levels.
Produce API consumption dashboards and reporting to support business and partnership decisions.

Experience and education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology.
6 to 10 years of experience in API Development, API Management or Systems Integration.
Minimum of 3 years' experience in Open Banking, FinTech or Mobile Money API ecosystems.
Demonstrated experience managing API gateway platforms and developer portals in production.
Experience working directly with external partners, fintechs or third-party developers on integration delivery.
Familiarity with regulatory requirements relating to open banking or open API frameworks is advantageous.