Senior Lead - Fintech Operations, Information Technology at MTN Nigeria

Job Identification: 1588
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Job Category: MTN Level 2
Job Schedule: Full time
Reports To: Senior Manager- Head Information technology
Division: MoMo Payment Service Bank

Description

• Assist in developing maintenance plans per application and carry out the maintenance of applications, re-configuring, building and testing components in accordance with OLAs and SLAs
• Code applications in accordance with good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities
• Create and execute/coordinate technical test plans for application change, new deployment and upgrades
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture components to the testers
• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing
• Continuous monitoring of Service Performance to ensure maximum service availability
• Effective management of changes to minimize service disruption and maximize service availability and quality
• Effectively work with other dependent teams such as Vendors, Service Management, Security team, Delivery and Engineering team, other Operations teams
• Provide information timely for Audits and Security requests and ensure any gaps raised are closed
• Effective access controls to supported systems
• Broad knowledge of the business processes within the Telecommunications sector
• Work with other developers, designers, and architects to make sure that the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.

Requirements
Education:

• First Degree in Computer Science or any related discipline
• UNIX shell scripting
• Application Developer/Business Intelligence
• PL/SQL and RDBMS knowledge
• Fluent in English.

Experience:

• 3 - 7 Years' of experience including:
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in IT Development or IT Operations
  • Specialized knowledge of IT support procedures, application construction, hardware technologies, systems integration and development techniques
  • Knowledge of banking, e-commerce and wallet platforms and applications
  • Experience working in a medium or large organization
  • Working knowledge of:
    • Project management principles, Agile principles and general technical management
    • Broad knowledge base of application development using an array of application development tools
    • Service Monitoring
    • Application development lifecycles
    • User Requirements analysis standards and methods
    • DEVOPS Practices and Tools
    • Managing Cloud Services and Licenses