Manager - Enterprise Business Solutions 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.

Mission

To Plan, design and support the delivery of solutions to respective Enterprise Business Solutions for end-users and ensure all IT systems function properly. In addition, coordinate and oversee activities related to the usability, security and continuity of all such solutions from engineering perspective. 

Description

• Organize regular engagement with vendor to review improvement areas for Enterprise Business solutions.
• Maintain detailed documentation of all architectural designs, configurations and implementations done for every integration requirement.
• Keep abreast of Enterprise Business solutions design patterns and industry trends.
• Perform the automation of load and performance testing, security testing, application monitoring, and internal acceptance testing.
• Ensure automation of monitoring and proactive identification and resolution of issues by embedding Machine Learning in error analysis. 
• Ensure all solutions deployed and tested with its resilience to potential security threats. 
• Ensure adoption of security by design.
• Understand current Enterprise Business solution integration capabilities including the use of services-based frameworks and other data integration technologies and strive for continuous improvement.
• Ensure that new business requirements have gone through the pipeline for analysis and design for subsequent implementation. 
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendor partners to provide support for outsourced applications.

Education:

• Minimum of First degree in the Sciences or Engineering from a recognized university.
• Fluent in English.

Experience:

6 - 13 years’ experience which includes:

• 5 years of managing development teams.
• 5 years of managing high demand pipeline in Telecom environment.
• Minimum of 5 years solution analysis, design and integration experience and exposure to formal requirements and design processes with very good understanding and knowledge of Charging Systems, Channel types – contact and contactless, Service Delivery and subscription platforms. 
• Strong experience with architecting and deploying cloud ready and enabled solutions including use of server-less computing technologies for applications.
• Strong experience with DevOps best practices including CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), automated testing, release automation, application performance monitoring, production operations and software quality assurance.
• Experience working or leading efforts related to deployment of Charging Systems , VAS, Subscription platforms, USSD GW & SMSC platforms.
• Experience with managing environments with significant outsourced vendor supported functions fused with in-house engineering.
• Proven strong leadership skills to manage changes and critical issues in a highly dynamic environment.

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