Apr
20

Position: MFS Planning Engineer
Reporting to: Senior Manager MFS Technical
The incumbent will be responsible for business systems planning and business analysis. This is a key role in the overall execution of the Technology strategy and will require an individual with excellent communication and analysis skills.
Responsibilities
- Requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation.
- Automation of complex, manual and error-prone processes.
- Understanding issues and opportunities with current applications.
- Developing future technology supporting the enterprise.
- Providing executives with direction and a decision-making framework for IT expenditure.
- Providing information systems with a developmental blueprint that not only takes into account concepts such as abstraction and modularity but also considers aspects such as maintainability, reusability, performance, security and scalability.
- Working with business teams to prepare a technology roadmap and be responsible for delivery of the same.
- Vendor management to ensure that vendors deliver the highest product & service quality while managing costs and timelines.
- Onboarding and supporting integration partners in a bid to build a digital payments ecosystem.
- Regular reporting on project status, KPIs, system performance, etc.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical field from a recognized institution.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry.
- Extensive knowledge of mobile money, payments, banking and relevant standards and best practices in these domains.
- Experience working with online charging systems, messaging systems (SMS & USSD), as well as value-added services development in general.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Thorough grounding in telecommunications grade hardware & software platforms, integration management, network design & implementation, operation and maintenance methods and procedures.
- Familiarity with the Agile Software Development Methodology.
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