Team Lead, VAS Multimedia Solutions 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: Team Lead, VAS Multimedia Solutions
Department: Network Group
Reporting To: Broadband Systems Planning Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Coordinating the efforts, inputs and outputs from many internal company departments, to ensure that the design and plan are carried out appropriately.
• Interface with Marketing, business development groups for new data services development planning
• Primary interface with vendors on technical  design issues
• Project management and tracking to ensure that data products are launched within specified timelines
• Supervise the definition of an optimal network topology for the Data/Multimedia platforms (e.g. SGSN, GGSN, ADC, WAP g, Wimax ASN etc) for deployment of Data/ Multimedia solutions to give MTNN a competitive advantage
• Supervise and execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the Data/multimedia network elements, features, protocols
• Lead the design and dimensioning of the Data network as well as new Data/multimedia solutions to support the marketing product
• Supervise the planning and design of network architecture to optimally serve the growth of the data  network in terms of traffic, subscribers and capacity
• Coordinate and conduct analysis of network model outputs and traffic patterns to evaluate model and proffer solution if necessary within the Data/multimedia environment
• Supervise the design and plan the evolution of Data/multimedia solutions, such as, Broadband, Mobile Data, WAP, GPRS/EDGE, Wimax etc
• Coordinate and conduct technical feasibility studies and impact analysis  for new data products and produce feasibility report
• Ensure the production of all necessary documentation including Functional and Technical Specification documents, for new Data/multimedia solutions
• Participate in cross functional meetings with key stakeholders involved in the development and deployment of new Data/multimedia solutions in order to define best solutions for new products and services
• Oversee the meeting with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade path to ensure quick deployment of new and innovative Data/multimedia solutions
• Ensure adoption, execution and strict adherence to the product development lifecycle.
• Ensure maintenance of defined network measurement and optimization parameters for the data/multimedia platforms
• Ensure maintenance of define network modeling and traffic analysis tools for proper traffic trending and analysis within the Data/multimedia 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 Data network delivery.
• Experience with GSM, TDMA, CDMA, 2.5/3G networks.
• Technical experience in planning, design and working with data network nodes  such as GGSN, SGSN, WAP Gw etc
• 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
10th January, 2013

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