Mfs Planning Engineer at Telkom Kenya

Reporting to: Senior Manager MFS Technical

Band: 3

Department: Technology Division

Role Purpose: The incumbent will be responsible for business systems planning and business analysis. This is a key role in the overall execution of the Technology strategy and will require an individual with excellent communication and analysis skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation.
• Automation of complex, manual and error-prone processes.
• Understanding issues and opportunities with current applications.
• Developing future technology supporting the enterprise.
• Providing executives with direction and a decision-making framework for IT expenditure.
• Providing information systems with a developmental blueprint that not only takes into account concepts such as abstraction and modularity but also considers aspects such as maintainability, reusability, performance, security and scalability.
• Working with business teams to prepare a technology roadmap and be responsible for delivery of the same.
• Vendor management to ensure that vendors deliver the highest product & service quality while managing costs and timelines.
• Onboarding and supporting integration partners in a bid to build a digital payments ecosystem.
• Regular reporting on project status, KPIs, system performance, etc.

Academic / Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical field from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry.

Professional Knowledge & Skills

• Extensive knowledge of mobile money, payments, banking and relevant standards and best practices in these domains.
• Experience working with online charging systems, messaging systems (SMS & USSD), as well as value-added services development in general.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Thorough grounding in telecommunications grade hardware & software platforms, integration management, network design & implementation, operation and maintenance methods and procedures.
• Familiarity with the Agile Software Development Methodology.

This position is open to Kenyan citizens only.