Enterprise Architect - Ecommerce & Financial Services at MTN Nigeria

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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Develop and demonstrate subject matter expertise in various areas such as E-Commerce Systems, Cloud Computing, Systems Integration
• 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.
• Any other tasks as assigned

Job condition    
• Normal MTNN working conditions.
• May be required to work extra hours to meet up with project deliverables

Experience:
• Minimum of 4 years in telecommunications/IS/IT
• Experience in Telco 2.0 would be an added advantage
• A year in Enterprise Architecture (Business, Applications)
• 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
• 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
• Solid understanding of service oriented architectural principles and systems

Training:
• TOGAF certified
• eTOM

Minimum qualification    

• BEng, BSc, BTech or HND