Senior Manager - IT Engineering 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: General Manager - Architecture and Engineering

Division: Information Technology

Mission:

Overseeing the software architecture, design, planning, delivery, and optimization of MTNN’s end-to-end software platforms, solutions, and business models to achieve cost-effective and optimal software engineering solutions to customers in line with the business strategic objectives.

Description:

• Planning and executing of software engineering, data engineering, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence strategies.
• Manage the planning processes geared towards designing and solutioning of all software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence development within MTN IT in line with the business and technology roadmaps.
• Define and maintain software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence delivery measurement and optimization parameters for the engineering team for all platforms.
• Manage software, data, requirement, and artificial intelligence design activities for efficient IT capabilities to support the subscribers and revenue growth for all lines of business within MTNN.
• Implement optimal, future-proof, cloud-native solutions to deliver scalable platforms to internal and external customers of MTNN.
• Direct the evolution of the ecosystem of software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence practices.
• Review and approve technical specifications and design documents for new products and services.
• Identify trends and patterns pertaining to customer requests and needs and filter this information through to relevant business areas to continually improve all aspects of the software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence practices.
• Leverage your software engineering skills and experience to design, develop, integrate, and implement products and services.
• Liaise with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade paths to ensure quick deployment of new and innovative products and services.
• Liaise with vendors and other stakeholders to keep abreast of new technologies and apply the same in line with MTNN strategic objectives.
• Coordinating the efforts, inputs, and outputs from internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient network design.
• Coach and train the team to ensure understanding of the objectives and goals of the department, awareness of set targets and requirements, and regularly review their training needs.
• Review the performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Education:

• Minimum first degree from a reputable institution.
• Fluent in English

Experience:

9 - 17 years’ experience which includes:

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Enterprise software engineering: with experience in supervising/managing others 
• Experience working in a medium to large organization
• Technical experience in planning, design and working with Cloud Services, APIs, AI and software development.
• Vast experience in new products and services development and a good understanding of Product Development Life Cycle
• Experience and knowledge working in an Agile Scrum software delivery environment.
• Experience in building solutions using technology like C# .Net Core, Angular, React, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Docker, etc.
• Experience in building automated reviews and quality assurance checks into the SDLC.
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices and patterns.
• Experience in delivering Technology transformation projects 
• Experience building complex systems to successfully delivery. 
• Experience working with the business teams to design solutions on their requirements.
• Expertise in understanding complex technology & applying it in a practical way to create business solutions.

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