VAS Planning Engineer at MTN Nigeria Recruits

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

MTN Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: VAS Planning Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Coordinate the efforts, inputs and outputs from many internal company departments to ensure effective implementation of the design and plan.
• Interface with Marketing, Business Development groups for new services and product development planning.
• Primary interface with vendors on technical design issues.
• Project management and tracking to ensure that products launch in line with specified timelines.
• Define the optimal network topology for the VAS platforms (e.g. SMSC, VMS, RBT, EIR, USSD, etc) for deployment of Value Added service to give MTNN competitive advantage.
• Execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the VAS network elements, features, protocols.
• Responsible for designing and dimensioning of the VAS network as well as new products and services to support the marketing product.
• Plan and design the network architecture to optimally serve the growth of the VAS network in terms of traffic, subscribers and value added service capacity.
• Plan and design the implementation of future Prepaid products.
• Conduct analysis of network model outputs and traffic patterns to evaluate model and proffer solution if necessary within the VAS environment.
• Design and plan the evolution of Value Added Services, such as, but not limited to, Messaging (Voicemail & SMS), Value Propositions, other Third Party applications and services.
• Conduct technical feasibility studies and produce feasibility reports for new products and services.
• Produce Functional and Technical Specification documents for new products and services.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders involved in the development and deployment of new Value Added Services in order to define best solutions for new products and services.
• Liaise with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade path to ensure efficient deployment of new and innovative products/services.

Job Conditions: General MTNN working conditions
Reporting To: Team Lead, VAS Planning

Qualification/Experience

• First degree in Electrical/Electronic or Computer Engineering.
• 4 years experience in which includes:
• 3 years experience in cellular industry
• Experience with GSM, TDMA, CDMA, 2.5/3G networks.
• Technical experience in planning, design and working with SMSC, VMS, RBT and other VAS platforms
• Vast experience in new products and services development and a good understanding of Product Development Life Cycle
• Vast Knowledge of signaling systems C7, ISUP, MAP, SMPP, XML, HTTP etc
• Experience with Statistics models and trending using Analytic/Modeling tools.

Application Closing Date
8th February, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online