Architect : Financial Services and eCommerce Needed at MTN Nigeria

Job Title: Architect : Financial Services and eCommerce
MTN Nigeria – Nigeria

    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

Desired Skills and Experience

    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

    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


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