VAS Planning Engineer at MTN Nigeria

• Coordinate the efforts, inputs and outputs from many internal company departments to ensure effective implementation of the design and plan.
• Interface with Marketing, Business Development groups for new services and product development planning.
• Primary interface with vendors on technical design issues.
• Project management and tracking to ensure that products launch in line with specified timelines.
• Define the optimal network topology for the VAS platforms (e.g. SMSC, VMS, RBT, EIR, USSD, etc) for deployment of Value Added service to give MTNN competitive advantage.
• Execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the VAS network elements, features, protocols.
• Responsible for designing and dimensioning of the VAS network as well as new products and services to support the marketing product.
• Plan and design the network architecture to optimally serve the growth of the VAS network in terms of traffic, subscribers and value added service capacity.
• Plan and design the implementation of future Prepaid products.
• Conduct analysis of network model outputs and traffic patterns to evaluate model and proffer solution if necessary within the VAS environment.
• Design and plan the evolution of Value Added Services, such as, but not limited to, Messaging (Voicemail & SMS), Value Propositions, other Third Party applications and services.
• Conduct technical feasibility studies and produce feasibility reports for new products and services.
• Produce Functional and Technical Specification documents for new products and services.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders involved in the development and deployment of new Value Added Services in order to define best solutions for new products and services.
• Liaise with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade path to ensure efficient deployment of new and innovative products/services.

• First degree in Electrical/Electronic or Computer Engineering.
• 4 years experience in which includes:
• 3 years experience in cellular industry
• Experience with GSM, TDMA, CDMA, 2.5/3G networks.
• Technical experience in planning, design and working with SMSC, VMS, RBT and other VAS platforms
• Vast experience in new products and services development and a good understanding of Product Development Life Cycle
• Vast Knowledge of signaling systems C7, ISUP, MAP, SMPP, XML, HTTP etc
• Experience with Statistics models and trending using Analytic/Modeling tools.