Principal Architect

Role summary

Ozone API is seeking an experienced API Architect to join our dynamic team. The Principal Architect will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of open banking and open finance APIs around the world.

The position, based in the UK, will report to the CTO with a dotted line reporting into the Head of Standards. It will involve some travel for on-site client engagements in regions such as MENA, APAC, North America, and LATAM.

The successful candidate will leverage their extensive API technology expertise to contribute to the creation of world-class API standards and infrastructure.

Interested in...?

• Share options in a scaling business already achieving aggressive growth.
• Being recognised internally and externally as a subject matter expert on global standards.
• An influential role in the future success and growth of our company.
• Competitive salary with performance-based bonuses.
• Remote/hybrid working, with flexible, modern working methods, hours, and work-life balance.

Key responsibilities

API Specification Development:

• Develop API specifications for diverse open banking, open finance, and open data use cases.
• Interpret and adapt global best practices to create comprehensive standards.

API Security Model Definition:

• Define API security models based on the OpenID Foundation's FAPI profile.
• Ensure robust and effective security measures in compliance with industry standards.

Consent Model Development:

• Create scalable and flexible consent models for data sharing and service initiation.
• Address a wide array of open finance and embedded finance use cases.

OpenAI Specification Writing:

• Write OpenAI specifications to articulate API endpoints, data models, and state models.
• Ensure clarity and precision in documentation for seamless implementation.

API Solution Delivery

• Use the Ozone API Platform to create end-to-end implementations of open finance standards.
• Work with the engineering, QA and product team to deliver complex changes to the Ozone API Platform

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:

• Work closely with internal teams, contractors, trade bodies, standards bodies, partners, and customers (including banks and central banks/regulators).
• Collaborate to deliver high-quality API standards that meet the needs of the industry.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years in API technologies.
• Proven track record in developing standards and specifications in open banking and open finance.

Technical Expertise:

• In-depth understanding of RESTful APIs and related standards such as JSON and OAS3.
• In-depth understanding of JWT and related standards
• Familiarity with ISO messaging standards in both payment and insurance sectors.

Implementation Skills

• Excellent working knowledge of typescript, javascript and MongoDB.
• Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines, bash, docker and k8s.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills for effective collaboration.

Industry Knowledge:

• Detailed understanding of both payment and insurance sectors.

Travel:

• Willingness to travel for on-site client engagements in various regions.

If you are a dynamic and experienced API Architect with a passion for shaping the future of open banking and finance, we invite you to join our innovative team at Ozone API. Apply now to be part of our mission to deliver world-class API standards globally.

About Ozone API

Open finance is now a global phenomenon with markets around the world embracing this new model for a next generation financial services industry. It is changing the world, laying the foundations to drive economic growth, tackling financial inclusion and leading to unprecedented levels of innovation. The Ozone API founding team met and started this journey whilst working together to lead the design and delivery of the open banking blueprint in the UK. We saw the huge potential, but also the significant technical challenge banks faced and so we built the Ozone API platform - designed to remove the complexity of open finance and help banks and financial institutions adapt to and thrive in this new world.

We're a fast growing, dynamic technology company that is already global. Our technology leads the market and our expertise is unsurpassed. We've built an incredible team, but the fun is just beginning with open finance now happening all around the world. We're growing quickly and are seeking people who are passionate about delivering real change, working in an organisation that is doing the right things and working really hard to do them in the right way.

Working for Ozone API

We're a positive, cross-functional team of professionals who collaborate whilst trusting and respecting individual expertise. If you're decisive and imaginative, and if you thrive on making things happen as well as bringing out the best in others, you'll fit right in. We have no time for deceptive delegators or politicians. We're in it together and we're in it for the thrill of the journey.

This is a remote-first role, geared to a healthy work-life balance. At Ozone API, 'flexible hours' isn't code for 'all hours', but you won't be out of sight – we have office co-working spaces available and there will be periodic meetings and get-togethers. Find out more about [Life at Ozone API]()