Manager - Integration 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.

Division: Information Technology

Description

• Ensure that new business requirements have gone through the pipeline for analysis and design for subsequent implementation. 
• Organize regular engagement with vendor to review improvement areas for all APIs exposed internally and externally.
• Provide MMIL availability of 99.8%.
• Ensure all API exposed are optimized regularly to improve response time <1s.
• Ensure tracking of response times from all APIs called to advise on improvement.
• Maintain detailed documentation of all architectural designs, configurations and implementations done for every integration requirement.
• Ensure the set up and testing of redundancy once a year for Key microservices.
• Demonstrate and perform internal test automation, 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 ML in error analysis. 
• Ensure all solutions deployed and tested with its resilience to potential security threats. Ensure adoption of security by design.
• Measure and provide set KPIs on microservice stability to improve service delivery and business agility.
• Ensure all applications are developed in such a way that they are scalable, flexible and cloud ready.
• Ensure each solution supports ad-hoc reporting capabilities and statistics of transactions and API calls.
• Review performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Education:

• First degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering or related discipline
• 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.
• 7 years of direct software development experience in integration and writing of APIs.

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