Technology Lead: Orchestration Platform and Marketplace

SUMMARY:
Leads the strategy, architecture, and scale-up of a multi-sided, Pan-African orchestration platform

POSITION INFO:

1. Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Ability to define and own a multi-year platform and technology strategy.

• Proven experience architecting modular, cloud-native, microservices-based platforms.

• Expertise designing open, API-first architectures that support rapid partner integration.

• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, observability, security, interoperability.

• Experience building high-performance systems capable of real-time decisioning (e.g., sub-50ms pricing/matching).

2. Multi-Sided Marketplace Expertise

• Deep experience leading or building multi-sided platforms (consumers, producers, partners).

• Ability to optimize liquidity, time-to-match, conversion, and repeat engagement.

• Understanding of cold-start challenges, network effects, and disintermediation risks.

• Experience developing trust & safety systems, including ratings, dispute management, KYC/AML, and risk scoring.

• Ability to balance incentives and maintain neutrality, enabling competitors to participate without bias.

3. Data, AI & Experimentation

• Strong experience building data & AI flywheels that improve matching, pricing, fraud detection, and personalisation.

• Proficiency with machine learning, including causal inference and reinforcement learning.

• Ability to design and run experimentation frameworks (A/B tests, marketplace experiments).

• Strong background in data governance, data engineering principles, and event-driven design.

4. Openness & External Innovation

• Experience translating business or ecosystem problems into external innovation contests.

• Ability to ensure IP hygiene, solution readiness, and rapid integration of winning solutions.

• Demonstrated capability in running developer ecosystems (portals, SDKs, sandboxes).

• Ability to accelerate partner onboarding through standardised procurement & compliance processes.

5. Product & Country Scale-Up

• Experience launching technology across multiple markets, ideally with Pan-African exposure.