MTN Nigeria Recruits VAS Planning Senior Engineer

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 Senior Engineer
Division: Information Systems
Reporting To: VAS Planning Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Supervise the definition of an 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
• Supervise and execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the VAS network elements, features, protocols
• Lead the design and dimensioning of the VAS network as well as new products and services to support the marketing product
• Supervise the planning , design and  implementation of future Prepaid products
• Supervise the planning and design of the network architecture to optimally serve the growth of the VAS network in terms of traffic, subscribers and value added service capacity
• Coordinate and conduct analysis of network model outputs and traffic patterns to evaluate model and proffer solution if necessary within the VAS & Data environment
• Supervise the 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 for new products and services and produce feasibility report
• Ensure production of all necessary documentation inc Functional and Technical Specification documents for new products and services
• Participate in cross functional meetings 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
• Meet with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade path to ensure quick deployment of new and innovative products/services
• Ensure maintenance of defined network measurement and optimization parameters for the VAS platforms
• Ensure maintenance of define network modeling and traffic analysis tools for proper traffic trending and analysis within the VAS environment

Job Conditions
General MTNN working conditions

Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Electrical/Electronics or Computer Engineering
• 4+ years of experience in cellular industry, with focus on VAS
• 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, WAP, XML, HTTP etc
• Experience with Statistics models and trending using Analytic/Modeling tools

Application Closing Date
18th March, 2013

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