Manager: Payments Architecture and Delivery at MTN

Key Deliverables

The Manager Payments Architecture and Delivery will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:

• To lead and provide expertise on Payments (Open and Closed Loop) application architecture, integration development initiatives, analyzing business requirements and crafting appropriate, cost-effective, and logical Payments solutions
• Design and architect B2B and B2C Payments platforms and related support tools
• Deliver Payments solution through both Agile (and Waterfall SDLC processes where needed)
• Collaborate and communicate with different technical, business and partner teams with clear and consistent communication to deliver greater Payments architecture alignment.
• Assess and review activities and deliverables of both on and offshore resources that provide architecture and delivery support for Payments
• Transform complex business requirements into candidate Payments system architectures which also meet security and high availability requirements
• Leads the design and build of Payments platform ensuring best practices in design and usability
• Design, develop and implement tools and mechanisms which will reduce the time and effort it takes to integrate Payments Solutions
• Deliver Payments technology solutions that are tested, maintainable, optimized
• Deliver designs for components that solve defined Payments technical problems.
• Identify risks and mitigations and make appropriate technical trade-offs in designs.
• Lead Integration for legacy systems and payment systems with new Payments technologies using technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and/or restful APIs
• Work closely with business together to create technical systems that shape great Payments product experiences.
• Assess Payments solutions changes, and migration plans and define the change management
• Support the commercial rollouts of Payments and associated products, such as Payments APIs
• Lead adviser on Payments integration options and act as a technical SME for Payments integrations by being able to understand the platform in its entirety, from overall architecture
• Support innovative use cases, by providing technical guidance to stakeholders using the Payments and payments systems
• Work closely with stakeholders to build a solution based on the business demands and roadmap
• Lead requirement gathering workshops to ensure all business requirements are captured
• Support solution deployment planning
• Review and approval of design and ensure sign off from stakeholders.
• Promote re-use of Payments solutions across the operating markets.
• Regular gap analysis of use cases and capabilities to identify growth opportunities.

Governance

• Lead, Set up / participate in planned and adhoc meetings for Wallet & Payments Unicorn
• Drive enterprise-wide Payments transformation initiatives, elicit inputs from relevant parties
• Drive adequate risk mitigation and controls, and elicit inputs from relevant parties
• Prepare proposal on change initiatives, SLA policies and procedures for Wallet & Payments Unicorn
• Sign off approval on changed and new initiatives for Wallet & Payments Unicorn

Escalations

• Manage and resolve escalations that have impact on Wallet & Payments Unicorn and Fintech in General

Reporting

• Report on a periodic basis to the function leadership on progress made within the function and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organization
• Report on an ad hoc basis on specific projects, as required

Education:

• Minimum 4-year Academic Degree with Honours (B Eng. / BSc Computing, IT, Degree Preferred)
• Relevant certification/accreditation/membership with professional body as required for role e.g. TOGAF

Experience:

• 5 years relevant industry experience Payments, digital, fintech, telecommunication
• Experience with Payments and Payments Systems
• Experience in Integration & Orchestration, Functional Architecture Design, Technical Solution Design.
• Experience in Business Analysis, Risk & Quality Management.
• Proficient in Software Engineering.

Competencies:

Functional Knowledge:

• IT architecture and project management
• IT service operations, systems maintenance and operational reporting
• Implementation, tracking, monitoring and compliance of operational projects
• Vendor sourcing and delivery
• Business continuity planning
• Structuring of contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• IT systems capability and capacity
• IT systems architecture quality and performance
• Digital systems delivery and enhancement
• IT systems strategies and roadmaps

Skills

• Business Acumen
• Analytics and Interpretation
• Strategic Thinking
• Organizational Agility
• Digital mind-set
• Dealing with ambiguity and complexity
• Decision Making
• Conflict Management
• Negotiation
• Financial and Numerical
• Project Management
• People Management
• Presentation

Behavioural Qualities

• Complete Accountability
• Courage
• Relational
• Adaptable
• Complete candour
• Culturally aware
• Emotional Maturity (High EQ)
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Team Player