Senior Lead – Fintech Operations, Information Technology at MTN Nigeria

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: Senior Lead – Fintech Operations, Information Technology

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