Middleware Developer Specialist - Vodafone Ghana

Duties and Responsibilities

• Adherence with Vodafone Group Standards and activities on Integration
• Implementation and maintenance of SOA Governance model within Vodafone Ghana
• Deliver integration component of major projects within Vodafone Ghana
• Continual review and assessment of the efficiency of middleware platform
• Review the performance of Enterprise Middleware platform, identifying performance gaps, developing, and implementing improvement plans.
• Identify business and technical needs to provide the necessary tactical/ strategic steps to evolve the business solutions
• Identify and fix issues in technology and process
• Define policies and standards for solution technologies and reflective of a wide spectrum of maturity in the different OpCos
• Responsible for the lifecycle management and technical evolution of solutions and architecture in the Global Solutions Catalogue (GSC) and IT Application Architecture Standards.
• Performance tuning and monitoring of platform with excellent troubleshooting skills
• Responsible for ensuring the support of Global /OpCo roadmaps, identifying synergy opportunities where possible
• Responsible for monitoring, bug fix and resolving production support incidents
• Provide the required IT & functional capabilities in collaboration with the business/technical teams
• Responsible for alignment and integration of solutions with all other Business Support Systems
• Identify and evaluate new trends within IT business solutions
• Perform product feasibility assessments.
• Responsible for managing third party IT/IP vendors
• Maintain expertise as SME in middleware architecture design and strategy, and define architectural standards and best practices
• Advise and share experience on complex issues by providing technical guidance to project team members (consultancy).
• Support of Vodafone project teams in defining and enhancing Vodafone’s advanced solutions
• Continued monitoring of all middleware interfaces to source systems.
• Provide regular statistical reports for system performance and capacity
• Ensure project delivery processes are fully adhered to.
• Define technical requirement specifications
• Definition of Technical Options, High Level Design and implementation strategy.
• Evaluate and provide recommendations on new technology solutions and integration with legacy systems.

Key Competencies

• Strong technological background, with qualification in Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent
• 3 years experience of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and deployment in an IT environment, preferably in the telecommunications sector
• Thorough understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Middleware concepts of integration applications in an Enterprise setting
• Fluent in Web Service standards and supporting technologies (Enterprise Service Bus, SOAP, XSD, WSDL, XML, etc.)
• Experience in deploying Service Oriented Architecture as needed to support business needs.
• Multiple OS and DB platform experience
• Perform administrative tasks including but not limited to configuring SMTP, LDAP integration, and data source configuration
• Experience in delivering application solutions based on agreed user requirements
• Substantial working experience in a business and technology focused IT environment
• Knowledge of business strategies in the Telecommunications industry, trends within the sector and of business implementations of solutions roadmaps
• Experience working with middleware tools for modelling business process
• Knowledge of best-practice architecture frameworks and solutions (ITIL, eTOM, SOA, etc.)
• Have good architecture methodology/ interpersonal/communication/presentation skills
• Expertise in planning and coordination
• Have good architecture methodology/ interpersonal/communication/presentation skills
• Experience working for a Network Operator within Mobile Industry is preferred
  Experience with Oracle Fusion or similar will give you a great advantage