​

Integration Strategy & Platform Leadership:

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the Enterprise Integration Platform, consolidating all services onto Pearl Bank’s EIP as the central nervous system for the bank.
• Lead the migration from the legacy integration platforms to Pearl Bank’s EIP, ensuring minimal business disruption and decommissioning the old system.
• Govern the entire API lifecycle, from design and implementation to versioning and retirement using the Pearl Bank’s EIP API Manager and API Marketplace modules.
• Establish and enforce integration standards, patterns (APIs, microservices, events), and best practices across the organization.

Core System Integration & Engineering:

• Finacle Core Banking: Design and manage high-performance, reliable integrations leveraging both the FI web-service (XML) and C24 ISO 8583 interfaces for transactions, inquiries, and data synchronization.
• Huawei Mobile Money (Wendi Wallet): Architect and maintain the critical integration layer between Pearl Bank’s EIP and the Mobile Wallet platform via its web-service (XML) interface, ensuring real-time and batch processing for wallet operations.
• External Ecosystem: Develop and secure integrations with a wide array of third-party services, including payment gateways, credit bureaus, government agencies, merchant systems, and partner banks.

Team Leadership & Project Delivery:

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Integration Engineers and API Developers with expertise in WSO2, Java, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of integration projects, from solution design and development through to testing, deployment, and hyper¬care support.
• Collaborate closely with the Manager of Full Stack Engineering to provide seamless APIs for front-end channels and with the Manager of Business Analysis to translate business connectivity requirements into technical specifications.

API Economy & Marketplace Management:

• Drive the bank’s API-led connectivity strategy, creating reusable, business-capability-centric APIs that can be rapidly composed into new products and services.
• Manage and curate the Pearl Bank’s API Marketplace, making APIs discoverable and consumable by internal development teams and, in the future, by external partners in a controlled, monetizable manner.
• Champion API-first design principles across the Innovation & Digitization unit.

Performance, Reliability & Monitoring:

• Ensure the integration layer meets stringent non-functional requirements for performance, availability, and scalability, particularly for high-volume financial transactions.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging for all integration flows to enable proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.
• Oversee the design and execution of performance, load, and resilience testing for all critical integrations.