Technology Partnership Manager
Job Description
- We are seeking a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to manage the technical relationship with banks, financial institutions, fintech partners, and enterprise merchants.
- The TAM will act as a trusted technical advisor and escalation owner, ensuring stable operations, regulatory alignment, secure integrations, and continuous optimization of our payments and financial platforms.
- This role requires strong technical depth, an understanding of payments ecosystems, and the ability to operate effectively in mission-critical, regulated environments.
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Client Technical Ownership
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned clients.
- Build trusted relationships with client teams including IT, Digital Banking, Operations, Risk, and Compliance.
- Understand client transaction flows, settlement models, client's services customizations, and operational constraints.
- Technical Advisory
- Provide expert guidance on:
- Payment processing flows (authorization, clearing, settlement)
- Card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, etc.)
- APIs, host-to-host, and middleware integrations
- Switches, gateways, and core banking interfaces
- Support solution design, onboarding, certification, and production readiness.
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Advise on scalability, redundancy, performance, and security best practices.
- Provide expert guidance on:
- Regulatory, Security & Compliance Awareness
- Work within regulated financial environments, ensuring solutions align with:
- PCI DSS
- Local Central Bank regulations
- Data protection and security requirements
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Act as a technical bridge between client compliance requirements and internal engineering teams.
- Work within regulated financial environments, ensuring solutions align with:
- Account Health & Operational Stability
- Own technical account plans, including stability, capacity, and growth roadmaps.
- Monitor:
- Transaction volumes
- Platform performance
- Error rates and availability
- Proactively identify risks impacting transaction success, SLAs, or customer experience.
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Drive preventive actions before issues impact production.
- Incident & Escalation Management
- Act as the technical escalation owner for high-severity incidents.
- Coordinate incident resolution with Support, Engineering, and Infrastructure departments as well as external partners (schemes, vendors… etc.).
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Lead or participate in post-incident reviews (RCA) and ensure corrective actions are tracked.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with:
- Product teams on feature enhancements and roadmap alignment
- Engineering teams on defect resolution and optimization
- Sales and Account Management on renewals and expansions
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Represent the customer’s technical voice internally.
- Work closely with:
- Reporting & Governance
- Provide regular technical status updates and executive-level summaries.
- Track KPIs such as:
- Transaction success rates
- Incident frequency and severity
- Time-to-resolution
- Platform adoption readiness
- Support client governance meetings and service reviews.
Bachelor of Computer Science and information is preferred (or equivalent).
4–8 years of experience in:
- Technical Account Management
- Solutions Engineering
- Payments Operations / Integrations
- Banking or Fintech technical roles
Strong understanding of payments ecosystems, including:
- Card payments
- Acquiring / issuing flows
- APIs and message-based integrations
Experience working with banks or regulated financial institutions.
Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple enterprise accounts with competing priorities.
V. Good command of English language (Speaking, reading and writing).
Self-confident