General Manager: Midas Integration and Delivery Office

MoMo from MTN; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

MIDAS, the strategic joint venture between MTN Fintech and Alipay, seeks a General Manager for the Midas Integration and Delivery Office in Dubai. You will transform strategy into a single, executable plan spanning Product, Technology, Deployment, Commercial Enablement and Finance, coordinating across markets and functions.

You will lead an orchestration effort requiring discipline, senior stakeholder management and a credible, visible delivery approach to meet Board and shareholder commitments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 year tertiary degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• Programme or portfolio management certification such as MSP, PgMP, PMP, SAFe or PRINCE2 strongly preferred.
• Minimum 12 years experience in programme, portfolio or delivery leadership, including at least 5 years at senior management level.
• Experience leading a programme management or delivery office for a large multi country technology or platform programme.
• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, telecommunications or platform businesses preferred.
• Experience coordinating across product, engineering, deployment and corporate functions without direct authority over them.
• Experience preparing board and shareholder level reporting and governance material.
• Experience of capacity planning, demand management and portfolio prioritisation support.
• Experience working across time zones and cultures, including with an external technology partner.
• Experience of establishing a delivery office rather than inheriting one.

Responsibilities

• Hold the integrated delivery system of the joint venture together. The role converts the strategy of the Head of Midas into a single plan that spans Product, Technology, Deployment, Commercial Enablement and Finance, and provides the orchestration capacity required to build a platform in one location while migrating fourteen markets from another.
• Coordinate rather than to command in terms of role. The role does not own product decisions, engineering decisions or migration decisions, and it does not set enterprise priority, which remains inside MTN Group Fintech governance.
• Own the operating company readiness and stakeholder interface, the governance and shareholder office, and the delivery relationship with the China research and development centre, ensuring that commitments made to markets and shareholders are recorded, visible and honoured.
• This is a senior orchestration and governance role requiring programme leadership at scale, disciplined planning, executive stakeholder management and the personal credibility to hold functional leaders to their commitments without owning their mandates.
• The role also carries the institutional memory of the programme. Commitments made in Board papers, market engagements and shareholder sessions must be captured, tracked and revisited, because the cost of a forgotten commitment in a joint venture is measured in credibility rather than effort.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Delivery planning

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Business/Engineering/IT

Job description

General Manager: Midas Integration and Delivery Office

MIDAS is a strategic joint venture between MTN Group Fintech and Alipay, established to accelerate the modernisation of MTN Fintech's digital financial services platform and strengthen the delivery of scalable, secure and customer-centric fintech capabilities across MTN markets.

MIDAS plays a critical role in enabling the next phase of MTN Fintech’s platform transformation by supporting the deployment, stabilisation and ongoing operation of the new digital wallet ecosystem. The joint venture brings together MTN Fintech’s deep market reach across Africa and Alipay’s global technology, platform and digital payments expertise to deliver a more resilient, innovative and future-fit fintech operating model.

We at MIDAS believe this is a game changer in terms of our business strategy. We are looking at an incumbent to join us as we build a successful business together.

As part of your portfolio as General Manager: Midas Integration and Delivery Office, you will be responsible to.:

• Hold the integrated delivery system of the joint venture together. The role converts the strategy of the Head of Midas into a single plan that spans Product, Technology, Deployment, Commercial Enablement and Finance, and provides the orchestration capacity required to build a platform in one location while migrating fourteen markets from another. The office exists because the Head of Midas cannot personally manage the coordination load of a multi location build and a fourteen market migration. It consolidates demand, plans capacity, sequences delivery, tracks cross functional dependencies and provides the delivery assurance and executive reporting on which Board and shareholder confidence rests.


• Coordinate rather than to command in terms of role. The role does not own product decisions, engineering decisions or migration decisions, and it does not set enterprise priority, which remains inside MTN Group Fintech governance. Its authority derives from the quality of its plan, the accuracy of its reporting and the mandate of the Head of Midas


• Own the operating company readiness and stakeholder interface, the governance and shareholder office, and the delivery relationship with the China research and development centre, ensuring that commitments made to markets and shareholders are recorded, visible and honoured.

This is a senior orchestration and governance role requiring programme leadership at scale, disciplined planning, executive stakeholder management and the personal credibility to hold functional leaders to their commitments without owning their mandates.

The role also carries the institutional memory of the programme. Commitments made in Board papers, market engagements and shareholder sessions must be captured, tracked and revisited, because the cost of a forgotten commitment in a joint venture is measured in credibility rather than effort.

The incumbent must have the following:

• Minimum 4 year tertiary degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Information Systems or a related discipline.


• Programme or portfolio management certification such as MSP, PgMP, PMP, SAFe or PRINCE2 strongly preferred.


• Minimum 12 years experience in programme, portfolio or delivery leadership, including at least 5 years at senior management level.


• Experience leading a programme management or delivery office for a large multi country technology or platform programme.


• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, telecommunications or platform businesses preferred.


• Experience coordinating across product, engineering, deployment and corporate functions without direct authority over them.


• Experience preparing board and shareholder level reporting and governance material.


• Experience of capacity planning, demand management and portfolio prioritisation support.


• Experience working across time zones and cultures, including with an external technology partner.


• Experience of establishing a delivery office rather than inheriting one.

What will give an edge to your application:

• Agile or lean practitioner certification.


• Certification in risk management or assurance.


• Experience of programme recovery or turnaround.

Closing date: 03 November 2026. Late applications will not be accepted.

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.