Business Solutions Specialist 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.

MTN Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Business Solutions Specialist
Department: Information Systems
Reporting To: SM Enterprise Architecture and Planning

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Serve as the Architectural lead & visionary for all business solutions and ensure alignment with MTN group standardisation framework covering OSS and BSS (Enterprise application integration), Applications and Infrastructure across the value chain.
• Ensure that all technology solutions delivered are robust, scalable and flexible enough to meet changes in business requirements.
• Ensure changes and enhancements to business functions, processes, financials, people and organizational structure are fully optimized, in line with  Information and Technology business strategy  i.e. Strategic- IT business Alignment .
• Demonstrate an awareness of emerging capabilities and its impact on the speed of IT’s response to business dynamics
• Evaluate MTNN’s business plan as well as the role of IS Strategy in the business plan and its impact  on the technology blueprint
• Define standards and guidelines for governance on SOA/Middleware platform
• Evaluate enterprise level systems architecture and direct the design and approach to deployment.
• Design scalable applications architecture based on trend analysis of current usage and forecast and benchmark application capabilities based on projected growth.
• Create, maintain, disseminate & validate application development guidelines & standards for all artifacts will facilitate the oversight standardization and future direction of all application development.
• Translate strategy into initiatives; identify needed resources, departmental requirements towards initiatives delivery and interrelationship amongst the projects to foster delivery of goals.
• Determine overall modeling standards, guidelines, best practices modeling techniques & approaches for Business & Solutions Architecture
• Design the architectural landscape to accomplish cross system objectives and foster advantageous trade-offs across the Enterprise portfolio
• Ensure the alignment of Enterprise Architecture with the business strategy throughout the cycle of innovation, planning and delivery
• Chart roadmap of Technology Infrastructure, Evolution, Emerging Technologies & trends.
• Evaluate developments in architecture in the local and international business environment and recommend value adding improvements to MTNN’s application, technology   and Infrastructure architecture roadmaps.
• Effectively tracks Benefits realization, investments value ratio metrics
• Demonstrate an understanding of developments in technologies and strategies in the local and international business environment and recommend value-adding improvements to MTNN’s IS technology footprint.
• Develop a road map of all portals and determine any implications in the MTN environment
• Develop short -and long-term plans for each existing website, working with the external focus team.
• Assist in guiding definition of the technology environment and the deployment of Portal technology and self-service features, as well as capabilities inherent in the software licensed.
• Collaborates with the other Architects and the external focus team to ensure data definitions, mappings, and changes are properly coordinated with business portals.
• Document weekly reports per functional areas

Requirements

• A first degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems or a related discipline
• Possession of a post graduate degree in related field will be an advantage
• TOGAF certified
• Minimum of 8 years work experience of which:
• 2 years in a supervisory/managerial capacity
• 5years Enterprise Architecture (Business, Data, Applications, Technology) experience
• 4 years experience integrating applications and technology in a complex environment.
• Good working knowledge of EA frameworks, NGOSS
• Practicable  Telco 2.0  experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience in SOA/EAI /Portal implementation. 4 years Business Process Re- engineering and management exposure.
• In-depth experience in Architecture governance and standards, Business Capability & Value Chain Analysis and Application Portfolio Management (APM).
• In-depth experience in timescale and Investment analysis (NPV, IRR, ROI, TCO)

Application Closing Date
27th November, 2012

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