Job Title: Specialist, IT Architecture
Job Location: Lagos, NIGERIA
Organisation: Etisalat Nigeria
Job Summary: Support the development, maintenance, governance and end-to-end (multi-tier) management of the company's enterprise systems architecture to ensure availability of adequate capacity in meeting business requirements optimally and sustainably
Principal Functions:
• Create, communicate, improve and enable evolution of models and principles which describe the enterprise future-state vision
• Capture complex knowledge about the business and supporting technology framework and distil knowledge into usable format for everyday business and technology decision support
• Ensure that new technology is adopted into the IT environment in an organized and strategy-focussed manner by implementing and managing appropriate technology controls
• Ensure that all deployed technologies in the IT environment work together (integrate) in the best way possible to deliver real value to the business
• Enforce strict compliance for all changes within approved IT standards and policies to guarantee that the production systems run ONLY authorized and tested configurations
• Benchmark enterprise IT with best practices
• Develop and implement mechanism for affording optimal use and re-use of IT resources in the enterprise while eliminating unnecessary duplications
• Conduct analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise architecture policies
• Implement and manage framework for continuous capacity planning and monitoring with a view to proactively meeting and anticipating business demand across all IT systems
• Participate in the management of business continuity through enforced standards of document management for requirements, analysis, design, implementation and operations documents
• Track and evaluate usage statistics of deployed systems and advise on required capacity provisioning actions
Educational Requirements:
• First degree or equivalent in Computer Science/ Engineering, Electrical/ Electronic Engineering, or any other numerate discipline
• Relevant postgraduate/ professional qualifications will be an added advantage
• Relevant IT and telecoms certifications, such as TOGAF and ZF, will be an added advantage
Experience, Skills & Competencies:
• Between three (3) and five (5) years directly relevant post-NYSC work experience in multiple, diverse technology environments and domains including any of technical infrastructure, application development, middleware, database management and operations
• Ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate:
• Good understanding of telecoms business and technology models
• Practical working knowledge of, and hands-on exposure to, key mobile CSP network elements
• Strong experience in planning, building and running telecoms BSS/ OSS and related platforms
• Very good understanding of business analysis and project management methods
• Very good conceptual and analytical thinking
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
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