Engineer - Solution Design (Charging and Subscriptions) at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa\'s leading cellular telecommunications company. On May 16, 2001, MTN became the first GSM network to make a call following the globally lauded Nigerian GSM auction conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commission earlier in the year. Thereafter the company launched full commercial operations beginning with Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. MTN paid $285m for one of four GSM licenses in Nigeria in January 2001. To date, in excess of US$1.8 billion has been invested building mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Nigeria. Since launch in August 2001, MTN has steadily deployed its services across Nigeria. It now provides services in 223 cities and towns, more than 10,000 villages and communities and a growing number of highways across the country, spanning the 36 states of the Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Many of these villages and communities are being connected to the world of telecommunications for the first time ever. The company\'s digital microwave transmission backbone, the 3,400 Kilometre Y\'elloBahn was commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo in January 2003 and is reputed to be the most extensive digital microwave transmission infrastructure in all of Africa. The Y\'elloBahn has significantly helped to enhance call quality on MTN network.

Reports To: Manager - Mobility Products

Division: Information Technology

Mission:

Lead the project technical team to deliver consumer and enterprise solutions to meet MTNN business requirements and needs. Working with the engineering and delivery teams to design and integrate IT/IS solutions in adherence to architecture and design specifications.

Description:

• Develop designs that support the functional requirements of business application projects and include the conceptual, high-level, and detailed design specifications for the build, implementation, and support of these business solutions.
• Code applications in accordance with good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of the most common coding vulnerabilities. 
• Create and execute/coordinate technical test plans for application changes, new deployments, and upgrades.
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture components to the testers. 
• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing.
• Effectively work with other dependent teams such as vendors, service management, security team, operations teams, and architecture and engineering teams. 
• Effective access controls to supported systems.
• Broad knowledge of the business processes within the telecommunications sector.
• Specialized knowledge of IT support procedures, application construction, hardware technologies, systems integration, and development techniques.
• Software Delivery Methodologies, especially Waterfall and Scrum

Education:

• A first degree in computer science, information technology, or related fields
• Fluent in English 

Experience:

3–7 years’ experience, which includes:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization, with experience in supervising others
• Experience working in a medium organization.

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