Chief Financial Data Platforms & Open Finance Strategy Lead

Job Overview

Chief Financial Data Platforms & Open Finance Strategy Lead – Kingdom of Bahrain

Role Mandate

This role is structured for a senior fintech leader responsible for architecting and governing open finance, financial data platforms, and advanced interoperability frameworks aligned with Bahrain’s role as a regional financial innovation hub.

Operating remotely, the Chief Strategy Lead will oversee the design of data-sharing ecosystems, consent-driven financial APIs, analytics platforms, and real-time financial intelligence layers, enabling secure, scalable, and future-ready financial data exchange.

The role requires exceptional fluency across financial data architecture, platform governance, privacy engineering, and ecosystem-level collaboration models.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Define and lead open finance and financial data platform strategy

• Architect secure, consent-based financial data-sharing frameworks and API ecosystems

• Design data ingestion, normalization, and analytics pipelines across multiple financial sources

• Establish platform governance models for access control, privacy, and auditability

• Integrate financial data platforms with payments, digital banking, and wealth management systems

• Advise senior stakeholders on ecosystem scalability, interoperability, and long-term data monetization strategies

Expertise & Capability Requirements

• Deep experience in financial data platforms, open banking/open finance, or large-scale API ecosystems

• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy engineering, and platform security

• Proven ability to design systems enabling multi-party financial data exchange

• Strategic mindset with hands-on architectural credibility

Remote Work Structure

• Fully remote, senior strategic role

• Collaboration aligned with Bahrain business hours

• Flexible, outcome-driven delivery expectations

Compensation & Incentive Framework (Bahrain-Benchmarked)

• Base Salary: USD 145,000 – 190,000 per annum

• Annual Strategic Bonus: 20% – 35% linked to platform adoption and ecosystem growth

• Long-Term Incentives: Deferred performance units tied to data platform scale and usage metrics

• Professional Benefits:

  • Advanced data and fintech research allowance

  • International conference and ecosystem engagement sponsorship

  • Secure data-access and remote-security stipend

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