Senior Consultant Products & Applications at MTN Uganda Limited

Job Expired

Reporting to: Senior Manager-IN/VAS

Division – Technology

No. of Vacancies: 1

Level of work: 3 (16)

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job

To support and supervise the VAS applications development team by ensuring timely delivery of solutions as per marketing/business needs

To ensure adequate capacity planning and management of internal VAS applications/systems

To ensure efficient and innovative solution and product designs for MTN U products and services as per marketing/business requirements

Manage, develop and grow the VAS Apps team

Main Job Functions:

Development and testing of solutions/products using any of the common programming languages according to the agreed specifications of the requesting department
Optimization of existing VAS applications to ensure VAS systems performance meets customers’ expectations and maintains company KPIs and proactive monitoring of internally developed applications.
Development of technical documents to be used for new products/solutions including technical specifications and operations and maintenance manuals
Performing O&M tasks and provision of L3 support for resolution of incidents related to the internally developed applications
Development of scripts to ensure efficient collection of statistics and generation of required reports
Research into new VAS solutions or the improvement of existing ones
Act as technical lead in VAS applications projects and manage the projects that are not run by the capital projects team
To carry out research that results in new VAS applications solutions or the improvement of existing ones
Manage and grow the software dev team

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA’s)

Ensure proper VAS Application project and specification scoping before development
Ensure best practice planning and development of all VAS Applications to ensure customer centricity targets
Manage and grow the software dev team
Research, plan, develop and deploy new/improved solutions
Plan, coordinate and manage the implementation of marketing-Initiated projects
Ensure effective business risk management in all activities
Ensure that all plans and solutions are documented well for future reference
Provide timely recommendations to ensure effective capacity planning for all VAS applications systems
Accurate and regular performance reporting to the various stakeholders
Champion automation and efficiency within the department
Ensure resilience and redundancy within the VAS applications delivery platforms

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or any related degree

Experience:

Experience managing a team of developers and enterprise software projects
At least more than 4 personal programming endeavor (e.g. hackathon, personal or business application)

More than 6 years of UNIX shell scripting/programming and database administration
More than 6 years of experience developing and maintaining applications