MTN Nigeria Job Vacancy for an Enterprise Architect - Ecommerce & Financial Services

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: Enterprise Architect - Ecommerce & Financial Services

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Engage effectively and build relationship with internal business partners and IS subject Matter Experts
• Work with other solution experts in building a robust and appropriate enterprise architecture
• Regularly assess the existing solutions and architecture
• Scan the environment (even beyond the industry) for best practices and different solutions to business requirements
• Develop cost effective solutions and innovative approach to meet the business requirements
• Design the architectural landscape to accomplish cross system objectives and advantageous trade-offs across the ecosystem
• Ensure the alignment of Enterprise Architecture with the business strategy throughout the cycle of innovation, planning and delivery
• Provide leadership role by participating in Architecture Review conversations to help guide development of ecommerce systems solutions that are strategically aligned to the overall architecture vision
• Work with other IT staff and review business requirements, solution alternatives, and designs and standards compliance and infuse architectural concepts like reusability, standards based, configuration driven, scalable and manageable solutions
• Exposure to Mobile Telecommunications applications – Customer Management & Billing systems, Provisioning, voucher and eCommerce systems etc.
• 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 architecture roadmaps.
• Develop a high level view of current and future state business and solution architecture for E-Commerce Systems that is well connected with business strategy.
• Work with other team members to develop a comprehensive view of all aspects of E-Commerce system architecture
• Collaborates with the other Architects and the external focus team to ensure data definitions, mappings, and changes are properly coordinated
• Define standards and guidelines for payment Platforms Financial application, VTUs, & eCommerce e.t.c
• Define 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.
• Develop and demonstrate subject matter expertise in various areas such as E-Commerce Systems, Cloud Computing, Systems Integration
• Any other tasks as assigned

• Normal MTNN working conditions.
• May be required to work extra hours to meet up with project deliverables
• Experience & Training

• Minimum of 4 years in telecommunications/IS/IT
• Solid understanding of service oriented architectural principles and systems
• 2 years' experience integrating applications and technology in a complex environment
• Good working knowledge of EA frameworks, NGOSS and Telco 2.0
• Minimum of 2 year experience in financial systems implementation - Virtual Top Up, Enterprise Resource Planning, Mobile financial, Payment Aggregators e.t.c
• Minimum of 2 years in eCommerce systems/platforms implementation - ATG, Endeca, WebSphere Commerce e.t.c
• Experience in Telco 2.0 would be an added advantage
• A year in Enterprise Architecture (Business, Applications)
• Minimum project management experience
• Exposure to formal requirements and design processes
• Experience with SOAP / REST web services, knowledge of SQL
• Experience with mobile integration to back-end systems via web-services & APIs

• TOGAF certified
• eTOM

• B.Eng, B.Sc, B.Tech or HND