Engineer - Data and Analytics 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: Engineer - Data and Analytics

Job Identification: 5640
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 2
Division: Information Technology
Reports to: Manager - Operations Data and Analytics 

Mission

• Design, build, and maintains large-scale data systems, architectures, and pipelines, ensuring data quality, security, and scalability. 
• Leverage programming languages, data tools, and cloud technologies to drive business insights, inform decision-making, and deliver data-driven solutions, bridging the gap between data and business outcomes.

Description

• Assist in developing maintenance plans per application and carry out the maintenance of applications, re-configuring, building and testing components in accordance with OLAs and SLAs. 
• Ensure Code applications is in accordance with good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities.  
• Create and execute technical test plans for operational and bug fixes. 
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture, design and development components into production environment 
• Ensure the integrity of the solutions delivered into production environment. 
• Perform reconciliations, proactive monitoring and ensure adequate service controls are in place. 
• Design, build, and maintain large-scale data systems, architectures, and pipelines
• Ensure data quality, security, and scalability
• Develop and implement data integration, processing, and visualization solutions
• Work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and deliver data-driven solutions
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other engineers to drive business outcomes
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends, technologies, and methodologies in data engineering
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture components
• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in production
• Develop information solutions from a variety of sources for both structured and unstructured data
• Integrate big data solutions with existing reporting and analytical solutions
• Support team and enhancement to ETL system
• Develop and implement big data models and solutions
• Conduct root cause analysis on production issues
• Guidance of entire information management process of both structured and unstructured data
• Understand and interpret complex business requirements and translate them into useful BI applications
• Understanding of Big Data principles, models and solutions e.g. Hadoop and apply it to current projects/initiatives
• Participate in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Requirements
Education:

• First Degree in Computer Science or any related discipline  
• Fluent in English.

Experience:

• 3 - 7 years of experience in an area of specialization; with experience with working with others 
• Experience working in a medium-sized organization  
• Experience in Enterprise Application Support.

Application Closing Date
20th May, 2025; 10:59PM.