Job Overview
Remote Head of Regulatory-Grade Open Finance Infrastructure – Kuwait
Domain Focus: Secure API Gateways | Financial Identity as a Service (FIaaS) | Multi-Bank Aggregation | KYC Federation
Location: Remote | Anchored in Kuwait’s Central Bank Fintech Oversight Vision
Employment Type: Full-Time | High-Impact API Infrastructure Role | Remote with Kuwait Central Bank Access
Compensation: KWD Executive Package + Innovation Patent Shares + Multi-Bank API Federation Authority
Project Mission
As Kuwait begins rolling out its Open Banking roadmap, it faces a complex challenge: how to unify fragmented financial institutions, legacy banking rails, and evolving AML/KYC frameworks into a federated, secure, API-based financial identity layer. This role leads the development of a national-grade open finance infrastructure enabling seamless data portability, multi-bank account aggregation, and instantaneous client onboarding—under one sovereign FIaaS (Financial Identity as a Service) framework.
Responsibilities
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Lead architecture and deployment of Kuwait’s first financial identity infrastructure with encrypted API access, biometric verification, and audit trail compliance.
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Build developer-ready Open Finance API libraries (based on FAPI, Berlin Group, or OBIE) that unify retail banks, Islamic banks, and fintechs under one data access layer.
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Partner with the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) to define safe data-sharing policies, strong customer authentication (SCA), and open finance licensing tiers.
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Integrate self-sovereign identity wallets and verifiable credentials for customer-controlled onboarding across banks, insurers, and digital lenders.
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Design cross-border KYC federation models that allow Gulf citizens to port financial identity to other GCC nations in real-time.
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Ensure compliance with FATF recommendations, Kuwait’s AML Law No. 106, and GDPR-equivalent privacy protections.
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Promote developer adoption via open sandbox environments, code repositories, and API testing portals.
Ideal Candidate
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10+ years in fintech API engineering, identity architecture, or financial data privacy frameworks.
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Hands-on expertise in Open Banking frameworks (UK, Bahrain, Australia), OAuth2/OIDC, and PSD2-compliant architecture.
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Background in digital KYC/AML automation, verifiable credentials, and privacy-first data architectures.
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Experience collaborating with central banks, data protection authorities, or national ID infrastructure teams.
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Proven leadership in launching cross-bank platforms or decentralized identity solutions.
Why Kuwait?
Kuwait’s fintech awakening is measured, deliberate, and deeply infrastructure-focused. This position empowers you to design a national-grade Open Finance DNA—from secure data rails to sovereign identity ledgers—while working entirely remotely with institutional reach.
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