Technical Program Manager - MCA Asia
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
HybridHybrid workplace; role is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Project & Program ManagementProgram Management
About the job
Requirements
- Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- Native-level proficiency in written and spoken Business English, with professional proficiency in Vietnamese.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Three to five years of experience leading technical program or project management for medium-to-high-scale FinTech, core banking, merchant lending, or payment-processing ecosystems.
- A proven track record of managing technical integrations, API rollouts, and system dependencies with external corporate partners.
- A proven track record of managing end-to-end lifecycles for complex distributed systems or infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities
- Translate MCA Asia’s business strategy into measurable technology delivery outcomes.
- Drive partner integrations, market launch readiness, and operational scalability by aligning engineering, product, and external partners around milestones and program outcomes.
- Ensure merchant lending initiatives move from strategy to launch by driving technology programs, delivery plans, and measurable execution outcomes.
- Align MCA Asia’s engineering teams, product stakeholders, and external partners around delivery goals, milestones, and partner integration outcomes.
- Help launch secure, compliant, API-driven financing solutions that improve partner connectivity, operational scalability, and speed-to-market across MCA Asia.
- Define technical requirements, build project roadmaps, and manage execution timelines for complex engineering initiatives.
- Lead collaborative efforts across engineering, product management, security, and operations to ensure seamless delivery.
- Anticipate technical bottlenecks, manage dependencies, and implement data-driven mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
- Participate in architectural discussions and translate complex business requirements into clear technical tasks.
- Provide executive leadership with visibility on program status, key performance metrics, and risks.
- Lead the technical design and deployment of end-to-end integrations with external banks, underwriting partners, and credit networks.
- Align internal engineering, product, compliance, legal, data privacy, and security teams with external partner counterparts.
- Manage dependencies, critical paths, and project lifecycles for high-scale merchant financing infrastructure.
- Oversee the definition of secure API contracts, data orchestration workflows, and financial messaging standards between systems.
- Anticipate technical and regulatory bottlenecks, ensuring compliance with banking standards such as PCI-DSS and KYC/AML across technical implementations.
Desired Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of credit underwriting systems, merchant risk models, loan servicing platforms, or ledger systems.
- A strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud security, and financial data encryption protocols.
- Exceptional communication skills and a history of aligning conflicting technical priorities between internal teams and external partner stakeholders.
- Experience with large-to-medium-scale cloud infrastructure, machine learning pipelines, or data analytics platforms.
- Ability to use data and metrics to justify project prioritization and measure program success.
- Exceptional influence skills and a proven ability to align diverse, disagreeing technical teams toward a single goal.
- Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies and modern hybrid program-project management.
About the company
GoTymeX provides the technology and product engine for Tyme Group’s digital banks in emerging markets. It designs, builds and operates consumer and SME digital banks through a phygital model that blends an app-based banking platform with a network of retail kiosks. It runs licensed banks in South Africa and the Philippines and scales via partnerships, offering a unified platform across multiple markets. Its goal is to expand access to digital banking in emerging markets by extending its model to more countries and serving tens of millions more customers.
Company Size
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Company Stage
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Total Funding
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Headquarters
Singapore
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Tyme Group reached 23 million customers and 95 million monthly transactions by July 2026.
- GoTyme Bank crossed 10 million users and ₱53 billion deposits by July 2026.
- Euromoney named GoTyme Best Digital Bank for Consumers in July 2026.
What critics are saying
- GoTyme still depends on parent capital injections after July 2026 and April 2025 top-ups.
- MariBank Philippines entered in 2026, and BSP raised digital-bank licenses to ten.
- Cross-border expansion across Vietnam, India, and China adds execution risk across regulatory regimes.
What makes GoTymeX unique
- GoTymeX powers multi-country banking from one platform across South Africa and the Philippines.
- GoTyme’s phygital kiosks and mall agents lower acquisition costs versus app-only rivals.
- Apple Pay, Wise remittances, and remittance campaigns deepen product breadth fast.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Meal Benefits
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity