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Job Summary
To design, model, document, maintain and interrelate the various architectural artefacts (for Systems, Integration, Technology, Security, Digital architecture domains) to ensure they support an agile and integrated architectural environment contributing to a more robust landscape, increased revenue, agility, standardization, reusability, time to market, simplicity and reducing risks, duplication and failures. Additionally, to be actively involved in all business events, developments and projects to ensure adherence and compliance to the approved EA standards.
Job Context
- Dynamic and highly competitive telecommunication & ICT industry
- Evolving technology era
- Multi-regulated environment
- Environmental, social and governance prioritized
- Regionalization structure implication
- Multinational environment – Technology Group best practices
- Continuous Infrastructural expansion
- Performance driven environment
- Diverse cultural environment
- Partnerships
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Job Role
- Design and model maintain and Support the Enterprise Architecture Strategy (for Systems/Solutions, Integration, Security, Technology, Digital).
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based solutions across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and OpenShift platforms.
- Act as a key stakeholder in infrastructure roadmap planning and execution
- Lead cloud migration projects and facilitate the transition of existing on-premises systems to the cloud while minimizing disruption to business operations
- Monitor cloud systems’ performance and ensure solutions are optimized for speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
- Drive the design, architecture cycles and aspects of the delivery of key business or enterprise-wide and group solutions.
- Drive and facilitate the development of the current and to-be architecture models covering all the EA domains.
- Enable and utilize the EA tooling across the enterprise and the visibility of all EA artefacts.
- Lead to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.
- Analyse legacy business processes to derive the required business functions and rules from existing applications in achieving a two-speed architecture environment for the new business architectures – focusing particularly on digital architectures.
- Develop systems/solutions, integration, technology, and security architectures covering the enterprise or for specific line of service delivery, program areas or business functions.
- Maintain overall EA domains (Systems/Solutions, Integration, Security, Technology) synchronized with the IS Vision, road map and Business Plan.
- Design the enterprise application integration model by ensuring the implementation and improvement of a standard middleware (SOA), as well as all MicroServices, and APIs. And ensure they are optimized and ready to take on more services and can handle service orchestration with high volumes of TPS.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain reference architectures for various capabilities.
- Translate business requirements into systems/solutions architectures bearing systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability. Enable the use of all the EA toolsets for the design and documentation of all EA artefacts.
- Drive Master Data Management Practices and ensure our environment is MDM-focused.
- Liaise with the Specialist, BPM to ensure integration, synchronization and alignment of the final architectural output to all design requirements for all EA domains and standards.
- Facilitate design reviews across the enterprise and collect enterprise architecture performance metrics to ensure continuous improvement.
- Setup all Integrated Design Review (IDR), Internal Architecture Review (IAR) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions and ensure EA artefacts are designed to support the discussions; document and review all decision outputs as well as the tracking of the IDR, IAR, ARB actions until completion.
- Ensure all EA artefacts are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect the current state and planned end state.
Qualification Required & Experience
Education
- Minimum of a BSc. Computer Science / Engineering or its equivalent
- Certification in TOGAF, eTOM, COBIT, Agile, GRCP, ITIL, PMP/Prince 2 Project Management is preferred
Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant IT experience in same or similar role in Telecoms environment
- At least 2 years of progressive experience in IT architecture
- Experience with enterprise architecture design, SDLC, Solution Design, Information Management & Data Analytics
- Experience in designing and implementing medium to long term strategic framework models such as TOGAF, eTOM, COBIT, ITIL, TMForum
- Experience with VMware, SAN, Windows, and Citrix.
- Understanding of cloud architecture, containerization, and platform services, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance
- Solid understanding of network protocols, security configurations, and cloud governance policies
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containers
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Competencies
Professional/Technical Competencies:
- Enterprise Architecture
- Business Architecture
- Data Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Security Architecture and Information Security
- IT Capacity Management
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Sound knowledge of TOGAF, eTOM, ITIL, TMForum, COBIT, SOA and EA methodologies and standards.
- Knowledge of IT processes management, governance, systems development, infrastructure management and systems administration
- Understanding of Telecoms products and services and general regulatory requirements
- Advanced working understanding of the Architecture environment of a telecom company covering the ADM, legacy and digital functions
Must live the MTN Values of
- Lead with Care, Collaborate with Agility, Serve with Respect, Can Do with Integrity, Act with Inclusion
Must exhibit the MTN Vital Behaviors of
- Complete Candor, Complete Accountability, Active Collaboration & Get it done.
Location: Accra
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