MTN Nigeria Manager, Emerging Technologies Job Vacancy

MTN
Nigeria – The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse
community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable.
It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right
talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment
offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We
are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job
Title: Manager,
Emerging Technologies
Location: Lagos

Job Description

To
trail blaze the delivery and commercialization of next generation
technologies with a view to capture value strategic to MTN’s future Be the
resident emerging technologies expert, collaborating externally on radical
innovative initiatives with global R&D partners, Innovation hub and
ecosystems stakeholders and providing feedback to the MTN Innovation
leadership Architect and Build high scalability cloud-based services
involving a combination of the below paradigms:
Mobile
apps (Android, Windows, iOS) to facilitate customer interactions across
several new services aligned to MTNN’s endeavors across adjacent verticals
Machine
learning and related algorithms applied to various use-cases
Data
science based methods , predictive and prescriptive analytics,
optimizations, classifications, clustering, and segmentation
Natural
language interactions and conversational AI that provide intelligent user
assistance; Speech recognition
Blockchains
use-cases
Biometric
Identification/authentication
Screenless
display (Virtual retinal display, Bionic contact lens, EyeTap, Google
Glass) etc. Conduct research and foresee the potential needs of the market
at large and evaluate the feasibility of solutions. Lead the
identification and development of applications for novel technology and
business ideas.

Job
Condition:

Normal
MTNN working conditions
May
be required to work extended hours

Experience
& Training

First
degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Electrical/Electronics
6
– 13 years of experience which comprises Experience as a software developer.
Experience
taking ideas/concepts to market-ready mobile applications, micro-services
or cloud enabled architectures is a plus
Strategic
outlook and attention to details
Imperative
skillsets o Frameworks : Qt, GTK++, JBoss (Seam, Hibernate, Spring, Struts,
Cache), .NET, ReactJS, Restify, Angular o Services: AWS, Azure, MongoDB,
Apache, Firebase, Hadoop, Redis, SQL, Algolia, Git, NoSQL o Dev Tools:
C++, Java or Kotlin, Python, Obj-C, Swift, C#, Android Studio, JS, o
Operating Sys: Linux, Android, Apple, Windows