Etisalat's vision is a world where people’s reach is not limited by matter or distance; a world where people will effortlessly stay in touch with family and friends; a world where businesses of all sizes can reach new markets without the limitations of distance and travel
Etisalat Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position of:
Job Title: Specialist - IT Architecture
Location: Lagos,NG
Job Summary
Support the development, maintenance, governance and end-to-end (multi-tier) management of the company s enterprise systems architecture to ensure availability of adequate capacity in meeting business requirements optimally and sustainably
Principal Functions
- Create, communicate, improve and enable evolution of models and principles which describe the enterprise future-state vision
- Capture complex knowledge about the business and supporting technology framework and distil knowledge into usable format for everyday business and technology decision support
- Ensure that new technology is adopted into the IT environment in an organized and strategy-focussed manner by implementing and managing appropriate technology controls
- Ensure that all deployed technologies in the IT environment work together (integrate) in the best way possible to deliver real value to the business
- Enforce strict compliance for all changes within approved IT standards and policies to guarantee that the production systems run ONLY authorized and tested configurations
- Benchmark enterprise IT with best practices
- Develop and implement mechanism for affording optimal use and re-use of IT resources in the enterprise while eliminating unnecessary duplications
- Conduct analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
- Participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise architecture policies
- Implement and manage framework for continuous capacity planning and monitoring with a view to proactively meeting and anticipating business demand across all IT systems
- Participate in the management of business continuity through enforced standards of document management for requirements, analysis, design, implementation and operations documents
- Track and evaluate usage statistics of deployed systems and advise on required capacity provisioning actions
Educational Requirements
- First degree or equivalent in Computer Science/ Engineering, Electrical/ Electronic Engineering, or any other numerate discipline
- Relevant postgraduate/ professional qualifications will be an added advantage
- Relevant IT and telecoms certifications, such as TOGAF and ZF, will be an added advantage
Experience,Skills & Competencies
- Between three (3) and five (5) years directly relevant post-NYSC work experience in multiple, diverse technology environments and domains including any of technical infrastructure, application development, middleware, database management and operations
Ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate:
- Good understanding of telecoms business and technology models
- Practical working knowledge of, and hands-on exposure to, key mobile CSP network elements
- Strong experience in planning, building and running telecoms BSS/ OSS and related platforms
- Very good understanding of business analysis and project management methods
- Very good conceptual and analytical thinking
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Application Closing Date
21st March, 2013
Method of Application
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