Job description
- 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
- Develop the long term e-commerce and financial services strategic plans and implement them in the e-commerce architecture
- Develop standards and guidelines for technical designing based on various business goals
- Undertake the development, maintenance, and governance of the e-commerce and financial services architecture
- Recommend necessary changes in the existing e-commerce application and work for its efficient functioning, revenue generation, and cost savings
- Ensure that ecommerce and financial services implementations are completed according to the architecture designed
- 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
- First degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business/Financial or its equivalent preferred
- Possession of a post graduate degree in related IT and Financial field will be an advantage
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Minimum of 8 years work experience of which:
- 2 years in a supervisory/managerial capacity
- 5 years Enterprise Architecture (Business, Applications,) experience
- 4 years’ experience integrating applications and technology in a complex environment.
- Good working knowledge of EA frameworks, NGOSS, eTOM, TOGAF including development and ensuring adherence to architecture principles and standards
- In-depth experience in Architecture governance and standards, Business Capability
- Good working knowledge of NPV, IRR, ROI, TCO
- A year in Enterprise Architecture (Business, Applications)
- Minimum of 2 years in eCommerce systems/platforms implementation - ATG, Endeca, WebSphere Commerce e.t.c
- 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
- Knowledge of eTOM, TOGAF, Payment systems such as Virtual Top Up, Enterprise Resource Planning, Mobile financial, Payment Aggregators, CRM, Voucher, web applications, eCommerce platforms, Portals, e.t.c