Manager: Payments Architecture and Delivery needed at MTN
MTN’s job vacancy, Career and Recruitment
Job title : Manager: Payments Architecture and Delivery jobs in Gauteng
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : August 20, 2022
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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
How to Apply for this Offer
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