Technical Open Finance Specialist

Central Bank of Oman is seeking to recruit competent, committed, self-motivated and enthusiastic an Omani candidate to work as Technical Open Finance Specialist . Role Purpose: To work on the technical design, implementation, oversight, and continuous evolution of the Open Banking ecosystem, with future expansion into Open Finance. The role is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of API standards, technical architecture, security requirements, testing and conformance mechanisms, participant integration, technical sandbox capabilities, and interoperability across the ecosystem. The specialist will work closely with banks, payment service providers (PSPs), third-party providers (TPPs), technology providers, and relevant CBO teams to promote secure, scalable, resilient, and standards-based implementation of Open Banking and Open Finance. Key Duties and Tasks: • Act as the Open Finance Department’s technical subject-matter expert for Open Banking and, progressively, Open Finance APIs, design, architecture, security, interoperability, and technical implementation. • Support the development, assessment, maintenance, and evolution of API technical requirements and specifications. • Review participant API specifications and implementations to assess alignment with applicable Open Banking requirements and identify technical gaps, inconsistencies, or interoperability risks. • Support the definition of common technical requirements that enable consistent integration across banks, PSPs, TPPs, aggregators, and other ecosystem participants. • Maintain technical documentation, implementation guidance, interface requirements, and change records to support consistent adoption across the ecosystem. • Provide technical input into the design, procurement, implementation, and oversight of shared Open Banking/Open Finance infrastructure, such as data aggregators, consent management platforms, directories, API gateways, sandbox platforms, and conformance solutions. • Define and assess non-functional requirements including availability, performance, latency, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, auditability, logging, monitoring, capacity, and service-level requirements. • Coordinate with relevant CBO technology, cybersecurity, data, and architecture teams to ensure technical requirements are aligned with applicable internal and sector-wide security and technology standards. • Support the establishment, implementation, and continuous enhancement of the Open Banking related technical environments. • Provide technical input to regulations, standards, guidance, licensing requirements, supervisory frameworks, and participant assessment criteria related to Open Banking and Open Finance. • Support the Open Finance roadmap by identifying technical dependencies, implementation sequencing, infrastructure requirements, and technical risks. • Monitor relevant international developments in Open Banking/Open Finance technology, API standards, security models, digital identity, consent management, data-sharing infrastructure, and interoperability. Minimum Qualifications and Experience: • Minimum 6 years of experience in related Information Technology field. • Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Information Systems, Software engineer, or closely related technical discipline • Good understanding of Open Banking/Open Finance concepts, participants, consent-based data sharing, API-based payment initiation, and the roles of banks, PSPs, TPPs, aggregators, and shared infrastructure providers. • Relevant experience in APIs, systems integration, solution architecture, API management, software/platform engineering, fintech, or a related technology domain. • Strong understanding of REST APIs, API design principles, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways/API management, API lifecycle management, and system integration concepts. • Knowledge of API authentication and security mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, PKI/certificates, token management, encryption, digital signing, and secure key management. • Familiarity with API testing and troubleshooting tools such as Postman or equivalent. • Understanding of high availability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, performance, observability, and service-management concepts for critical financial-sector platforms. • Knowledge of payment systems, digital identity, consent-management architecture, and data privacy. Please Submit your application before 27th October 2026. Show more Show less