Application Development Lead At Vodafone Ghana

National Communications Backbone Company Ltd, Subsidiary of Vodafone Ghana

Accra

Description

Purpose Of Role

  • Identify business and technical needs to provide the necessary tactical/ strategic steps to evolve the business solutions
  • Build, configure, debug and lead in support BSS applications.
  • 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
  • Performance tuning and monitoring of BSS applications with excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Responsible for monitoring, bug fix and resolving production support incidents
  • Provide the required IT & functional capabilities in collaboration with the business/technical teams
  • Identify and evaluate new trends within IT business solutions
  • Perform product feasibility assessments.
  • Drive implementation of solution lifecycle management and apply VF’s IT framework methodologies
  • Support of Vodafone project teams in defining and enhancing Vodafone’s advanced solutions with integration needs
  • Maintain expertise as SME in BSS 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
  • Ensure project delivery processes are fully adhered to.
  • Define technical requirement specifications
  • Definition of Technical Options, High Level Design and implementation strategy.

Qualification Required & Experience

Person Specification:

  • Strong technological background, with qualification in Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent
  • 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
  • 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

Location: Greater Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Click on the link below to apply.

Closing Date: 25 June, 2013