Job Openings 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 following positions below:

1.) Manager - Security Governance and Assurance, Information Technology

Job Identification: 4826
Job Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 3
Division: Information Technology
Reports To: Senior Manager - Information Security

Mission

• Responsible for the definition of MTN Nigeria information security policy, embedding security policy into operations, leading security risk assessment efforts, and associated controls and reporting in line with MTN Nigeria policies.
• Drive effective coordination and closure of all information security compliance activities, including control tracking and actual submissions for closure.

Description

• Identify, assess, and evaluate risk to enable the execution of the enterprise risk management strategy.
• Collect information and review documentation to ensure that risk scenarios are identified and evaluated.
• Identify legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies and standards related to information systems to determine their potential impact on business objectives.
• Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities for business processes, associated data, and supporting capabilities to assist in the evaluation of enterprise risk.
• Create and maintain a risk register to ensure that all identified risk factors are accounted for.
• Assemble risk scenarios to estimate the likelihood and impact of significant events on the organization.
• Analyze risk scenarios to determine their impact on business objectives.
• Develop an information security strategy aligned with business goals and objectives and ensure alignment of the information security strategy with corporate governance.
• Correlate identified risk scenarios to relevant business processes to assist in identifying risk ownership.
• Validate risk appetite and tolerance with senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Interview process owners and review process design documentation to gain an understanding of the business process objectives.
• Analyze and document business process objectives and design to identify required information systems controls.
• Facilitate the identification of resources (e.g., people, infrastructure, information, and architecture) required to implement and operate information systems controls at an optimal level.
• Ensure all controls are assigned control owners to establish accountability and establish control criteria to enable control life cycle management. 
• Establish internal and external reporting and communication channels that support information security.
• Design and implement information systems controls in alignment with the organization’s risk appetite and tolerance levels to support business objectives.
• Facilitate the identification of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable the measurement of information systems control performance in meeting business objectives.
• Develop and implement risk responses to ensure that risk factors and events are addressed in a cost-effective manner and in line with business objectives.
• Plan, supervise, and conduct testing to confirm the continuous efficiency and effectiveness of information systems.
• Ensure that all IT policies and procedures are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Assess and recommend tools and techniques to automate information systems control verification processes.
• Evaluate the current state of information systems processes using a maturity model to identify the gaps between current and targeted process maturity.
• Determine the approach to correcting information systems control deficiencies and maturity gaps to ensure that deficiencies are appropriately considered and remediated.
• Identify and evaluate risk response options, and provide management with information to enable risk response decisions.
• Review risk responses with the relevant stakeholders for validation of efficiency, effectiveness, and economy.
• Monitor and maintain information system controls to ensure they function effectively and efficiently.
• Test information systems control to verify effectiveness and efficiency prior to implementation and Implement information systems controls to mitigate risk.
• Facilitate independent risk assessments and risk management process reviews to ensure they are performed efficiently and effectively.
• Identify and report on risk, including compliance, to initiate corrective action and meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Coach and train the team to ensure understanding of the objectives and goals of the department, awareness of set targets and requirements, and regular review of their training needs.
• Review the performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Educational Qualification

• First Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology / Systems, or a related field.
• A Master’s Degree in a related field will be an added advantage.
• CISA, CGEIT, CISM, CRISC, COBIT, and ISO 31000
• Fluent in English

Experience:

• 6–13 years’ experience, which includes:
  • A minimum of 3 years of xperience in an area of specialization, with experience in supervising or managing others
  • Experience working in a medium- to large organization
  • Interpretation and application of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
  • Advanced knowledge of risk assessment design and delivery
  • In-depth understanding of PCIDSS, ISO 31000, ISO 27001:2019, and cybersecurity frameworks, including but not limited to NIST, CIS, etc.

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Note

• Eligible Females and People with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.
• MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN) does not and will never ask for payment of any kind from applicants in all MTN’s recruitment processes and stages such as job application, CV review, interview, meeting, and final processing of applications. 
• MTN is not liable for fraudulent publication of job offers in MTN’s name or for the fraudulent use of MTN’s name in any manner whatsoever.

2.) Senior Manager - IT Engineering, Information Technology

Job Identification: 4823
Job Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 3H
Division: Information Technology
Reports To: General Manager - Architecture and Engineering

Mission

• Overseeing the software architecture, design, planning, delivery, and optimization of MTNN’s end-to-end software platforms, solutions, and business models to achieve cost-effective and optimal software engineering solutions to customers in line with the business strategic objectives.

Description

• Planning and executing of software engineering, data engineering, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence strategies.
• Manage the planning processes geared towards designing and solutioning of all software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence development within MTN IT in line with the business and technology roadmaps.
• Define and maintain software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence delivery measurement and optimization parameters for the engineering team for all platforms.
• Manage software, data, requirement, and artificial intelligence design activities for efficient IT capabilities to support the subscribers and revenue growth for all lines of business within MTNN.
• Implement optimal, future-proof, cloud-native solutions to deliver scalable platforms to internal and external customers of MTNN.
• Direct the evolution of the ecosystem of software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence practices.
• Leverage your software engineering skills and experience to design, develop, integrate, and implement products and services.
• Liaise with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade paths to ensure quick deployment of new and innovative products and services.
• Liaise with vendors and other stakeholders to keep abreast of new technologies and apply the same in line with MTNN strategic objectives.
• Coordinating the efforts, inputs, and outputs from internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient network design.
• Review and approve technical specifications and design documents for new products and services.
• Identify trends and patterns pertaining to customer requests and needs and filter this information through to relevant business areas to continually improve all aspects of the software, data, requirement engineering, and artificial intelligence practices.
• Coach and train the team to ensure understanding of the objectives and goals of the department, awareness of set targets and requirements, and regularly review their training needs.
• Review the performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Educational Qualification

• Minimum of First Degree from a reputable institution.
• Fluent in English

Experience:

• 9 - 17 years of experience which includes:
  • Minimum of 6 years of experience in Enterprise software engineering: with experience in supervising/managing others 
  • Experience working in a medium to large organization
  • Technical experience in planning, design and working with Cloud Services, APIs, AI and software development.
  • Vast experience in new products and services development and a good understanding of Product Development Life Cycle
  • Experience and knowledge working in an Agile Scrum software delivery environment.
  • Experience in delivering Technology transformation projects 
  • Experience building complex systems to successfully delivery. 
  • Experience in building solutions using technology like C# .Net Core, Angular, React, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Docker, etc.
  • Experience in building automated reviews and quality assurance checks into the SDLC.
  • Experience with professional software engineering best practices and patterns.
  • Experience working with the business teams to design solutions on their requirements.
  • Expertise in understanding complex technology & applying it in a practical way to create business solutions.

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Note

• Eligible Females and People with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.
• MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN) does not and will never ask for payment of any kind from applicants in all MTN’s recruitment processes and stages such as job application, CV review, interview, meeting, and final processing of applications. 
• MTN is not liable for fraudulent publication of job offers in MTN’s name or for the fraudulent use of MTN’s name in any manner whatsoever.

3.) Engineer - Solution Design (Charging and Subscriptions), Information Technology

Job Identification: 4783
Job Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 2
Division: Information Technology
Reports To: Manager - Mobility Products

Mission

• Lead the project technical team to deliver consumer and enterprise solutions to meet MTNN business requirements and needs.
• Working with the engineering and delivery teams to design and integrate IT/IS solutions in adherence to architecture and design specifications.

Description

• Develop designs that support the functional requirements of business application projects and include the conceptual, high-level, and detailed design specifications for the build, implementation, and support of these business solutions.
• Code applications in accordance with good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of the most common coding vulnerabilities. 
• Create and execute/coordinate technical test plans for application changes, new deployments, and upgrades.
• Effectively work with other dependent teams such as vendors, service management, security team, operations teams, and architecture and engineering teams. 
• Participate in transitions of the application or technical architecture components to the testers. 
• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing.
• Effective access controls to supported systems.
• Broad knowledge of the business processes within the telecommunications sector.
• Specialized knowledge of IT support procedures, application construction, hardware technologies, systems integration, and development techniques.
• Software Delivery Methodologies, especially Waterfall and Scrum

Requirements
Educational Qualification:

• A First Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields
• Fluent in English 

Experience:

• 3–7 years of experience, which includes:
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in an area of specialization, with experience in supervising others
  • Experience working in a medium organization.

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Note

• Eligible Females and People with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.
• MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN) does not and will never ask for payment of any kind from applicants in all MTN’s recruitment processes and stages such as job application, CV review, interview, meeting, and final processing of applications. 
• MTN is not liable for fraudulent publication of job offers in MTN’s name or for the fraudulent use of MTN’s name in any manner whatsoever.