Senior Specialist – ICT Product Category at MTN Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Senior Specialist – ICT Product Category

Job Identification: 1386
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 3
Reports To: General Manager Enterprise Marketing
Division: Enterprise Business

Description

• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of a solution; explore architectural alternatives, aid team in identifying technologies and making architectural decisions.
• Participate in release preparation and planning to determine the necessary architectural improvements according to the architecture roadmap.
• Act as the application(s) functional expert by providing expertise in the business process supported by the application(s)
• Provide detailed definition on how the applications will support business requirements.
• Conduct impact analyses of business requirements on the system.
• Work with Application Technical Architects in defining software/hardware requirements and in planning and delivering architecture.
• Serve as process expert/coach for the team’s owned standard deliverables – optimize for the supported clients.
• Participate in release preparation and planning to determine the necessary architectural improvements according to the architecture roadmap.
• Designing and enforcing architectural standards
• Synchronize architectural solution and resolve architectural differences and interdependencies within different verticals.
• Identifying new IoT opportunities and selling directly to customers
• Support creation of platform design, build and deployments
• Support methods adoption and act as experts in how to create deliverables most cost effectively
• Developing a good understanding of the customer needs, products, and vertical market
• Managing the relationship with key customers to deliver ongoing growth of connections, revenue and retention.
• Work collaboratively with the customer to develop Business Requirements.
• Facilitate sharing of best practices – identify and drive productivity improvements.
• Evaluate and provide detailed technical feasibility study of IoT platform suppliers/vendors.

Education

• First Degree in IT / Engineering or related discipline
• Fluent in English

Experience:

• 6-13 years’ experience which includes:
• Minimum 5-6 years of proven hands-on experience in IoT Platform development and deployment in a CDI/DevOps-based environment.
• 5+ years of strong experience owning and delivering products
• The background that comprises both solid business understanding as well as high level understanding of high-quality product delivery
• Proficiency in cloud-native development & deployments and web services technologies (e.g. REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, HTML5, etc.).
• Proven experience with RDMS and NO-SQL such as: Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB.
• Experience in solution selling/outcome-based sales.
• Understanding of IoT or communications technology in an enterprise setting
• Knowledge of fundamental elements of IoT systems and have the skills needed to design and build E2E system propositions
• Understanding of IoT system vulnerabilities and how to secure IoT devices, and the networks they use to communicate, against malicious attacks
• Proven experience in developing & deploying large-scale enterprise backend & frontend software systems & web applications.

Application Closing Date
10th August, 2023; 10:59 PM.