Director, Open Finance Connectivity Operations

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Open Finance Connectivity Operations

We are seeking a strategic and technical professional to serve as Director, Open Finance Connectivity. This role will facilitate relationships with Open Finance data providers and support market expansion across Europe and beyond. They will lead the automation, testing, and quality improvement initiatives of our Open Finance data connections to drive scale and efficiency in the building, testing, managing, and upgrading of our API connections. They will be a key part of the Europe Product & Engineering team that is blending the agility of a fintech scale-up with the strength and resources of a leading global technology company.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation and operational efficiency across connectivity processes, including the design and development of automated dashboards, provider intelligence frameworks, and service agents for key connectivity functions
• Manage cross-market connectivity initiatives and assess the impact of new features and use cases on connectivity
• Support platform reliability and scalability initiatives
• Support our team of product professionals who manage the build, testing and maintenance of our own API connections
• Partner closely with other Open Finance product and engineering teams, owning the business requirements, roadmap development, and backlog prioritisation for OFin Connectivity services

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree required, analytical / technical degree from a top-tier program preferred.
• Successful product development and/or product management experience
• Understanding of APIs, Open Banking, Open Finance, and developer ecosystems
• Exemplary analytical and problem-solving skills and business acumen; seasoned in identifying the most critical aspects of a problem and handling ambiguity with ease.
• Demonstrated ability to support company-wide, complex projects, effectively driving forward project plans and leveraging stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to structure amorphous problems, break down complex asks into tangible steps
• Experience working on a cross-functional team/project to produce the best solution.
• Be a good collaborator and listener, influencer and able to navigate a matrixed organization and /reporting structure.
• Product Management discipline experience of a business or consumer facing application or technology service

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation