We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the VAS Technical Department within the Technical Division.
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Billing Planning Engineer
Ref: TECHNICAL_BPE_SEPTEMBER 2011
Reporting to the Principal Engineer – Billing Planning; the holder of the position will be responsible for evaluation of new and existing hardware, planning & design for new solutions, implementation and integration of new hardware/software, optimization of existing systems and internal process improvement.
Key Responsibilities
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Billing Planning Engineer
Ref: TECHNICAL_BPE_SEPTEMBER 2011
Reporting to the Principal Engineer – Billing Planning; the holder of the position will be responsible for evaluation of new and existing hardware, planning & design for new solutions, implementation and integration of new hardware/software, optimization of existing systems and internal process improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Create key performance indicators for new products/services;
- Play a lead role in marketing proposals, product & services vendor evaluation process; weighted evaluation for new hardware, features and services;
- Design CBS network for new elements additions and analyze IN network against KPI;
- Minimize network and service impact for any change and schedule all the planned work;
- Create and update handover system configuration documentation after software/hardware upgrade;
- Configure data for new systems with vendor engineer and create/adopt necessary work instruction for existing systems;
- Perform S.W.O.T Analysis of projects and play a lead role in transference of skills and knowledge to IN technicians;
- Analyze the effect of a new/improvement change before & after project implementation;
- Build internal and external relationships with key customers and suppliers to deliver continuous quality solutions to business.
Minimum requirements
- Degree/Diploma in either Telecommunications, Electronic Engineering or IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development, LAN design and configuration, TCP/IP;
- 3 years working as an engineer in a telecommunications environment (vendor or operator);
- Experience of GSM Intelligent Networks and Huawei Convergent Billing System (CBS) will be an added advantage.
The deadline for application is Friday, the 16th September, 2011
The Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition
Safaricom Ltd
Nairobi
Via email to: hr@safaricom.co.ke
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