Manager - Integration, Information Technology at MTN Nigeria

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager - Integration, Information Technology

Job Identification: 2706
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reports To: Senior Manager - IT Engineering
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.

Requirements
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.

Application Closing Date
1st August, 2024.