General Manager: Deployment

About the role

MIDAS, a joint venture between MTN Group Fintech and Alipay, is deploying a new digital wallet ecosystem across MTN markets. The General Manager: Deployment is based in Accra and owns the migration of fourteen MTN operating companies from the legacy environment to the Midas platform, including stabilisation through hypercare before handing each market to steady-state operations. The role reports to the Head of MIDAS and has a dotted line to the Group Chief Commercial Officer.

Key responsibilities

• Own the migration strategy, wave planning, market readiness, solution design, data migration and reconciliation, release and cutover, hypercare and the in-region delivery leads.
• Carry the single largest execution risk: customer balances, transaction history, agent liquidity, merchant settlement and regulatory standing depend on consistent, well-rehearsed migrations.
• Run the first migration personally, turn it into a repeatable playbook and repeat it at pace while earlier markets are stabilising.
• Oversee post-migration product deployment from engineering into live operations and coordinate technology activities with each market.
• Build and recruit the delivery hub, which serves as the single point of contact for the CIO and Product organisation in each market, and establish the migration and delivery capability within the African hub.

Required profile

• Minimum 4-year tertiary degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Business or a related discipline.
• Programme or project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or MSP.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in technology deployment, implementation or programme delivery, including at least 5 years at senior management level.
• Proven accountability for large-scale platform migration or core system replacement in a live customer environment.
• Experience in payments, banking, fintech or telecommunications; multi-country rollouts with regulators and operating company leadership; building delivery capabilities across markets; cutover command, data migration and reconciliation, hypercare and handing over to a separate support organisation; managing third-party providers through cutover.

An edge is given by certifications in data migration, reconciliation or quality management, change management, or cloud/platform implementation. Applications close on 13 November 2026; late applications are not accepted.