Job Opportunities at Huawei

At Huawei, we define human progress by innovations that enrich humanity. We do not view connectivity as a privilege, but a necessity. We believe that the impact of information and communications technology should be measured by how many people can benefit from it. Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population. Huawei's vision is to enrich life through communication. By leveraging our experience and expertise in the ICT sector, we help bridge the digital divide by providing opportunities to enjoy broadband services, regardless of geographic location. Contributing to the sustainable development of society, the economy, and the environment, Huawei creates green solutions that enable customers to reduce power consumption, carbon emissions, and resource costs.

Chief Business Architect

• Job TypeFull Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA  
• Experience8 - 15 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldICT / Computer  

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Business Architect assesses, models, and identifies necessary capabilities, across people process and technology, that are needed to realize the company strategy. BA aligns and supports projects and initiatives across the enterprise portfolio to minimize conflicts, increase strategic flexibility, and achieve the desired level of business performance both short term and long term.
The practice of business architecture provides the following value to the organization:

• Greater confidence that we are doing the right things to link strategy, vision, and execution
• Deeper relationships and engagement across the Business, Technology, and Finance
• Better visibility into the current and potential technology investment portfolio and linkage to broader enterprise investment portfolio

Key Responsibilities

• Business Architecture provides 5 distinct service offerings to our stakeholders. An Enterprise Business Architect is responsible for 1 - 3 and supports 4 and 5.
• Analyze the business holistically to incorporate outside brands, services, and tools that drive growth and support initiatives and vision
• Collaborate with Business and Technology stakeholders to clarify key initiatives and strategies, determine impacted capabilities and processes, align with planned activities, and increase visibility and a shared understanding our strategic direction.
• Define, document, reconcile, and align capability model, process taxonomy, and connections among the components of our EA meta-model.
• Provide business and technology with viable options analysis for potential projects or strategic initiatives
• Provide process expertise and guidance across product areas and serve as a shared resource of process analysts to define and document processes
• The Business Architect will work closely with the enterprise architect team at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives, and supporting business unit managers as they leverage business architecture artifacts to support business plans. The Business Architect may provide direct input into the governance cycle for the funding, oversight, and realization of business projects. In that governance role, the business architect helps to insure that business and IT projects are aligned to support the achievement of key goals, that specific business scenarios are considered and that business value is delivered.
• Develop a business architecture strategy for the enterprise based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business units in the context of the enterprise.
• Capture the tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Conduct periodical assessment of performance of the key metrics by using suitable methodologies and tools.

Education and Certifications

• A Bachelor degree in Business, IT or related field is required.
• 5 years’ experience in a similar Business Architect role.
• Certifications in applicable skills a plus.

Operational

• Good cross industry knowledge of Telecom, Internet, Digital Media, Banking , Retail and Entertainment
• Work closely with business areas to develop business strategies
• Skills in modeling of business processes, capabilities and strategic directions
• Understanding of best practices in the industry and related industries
• Social media, cloud, mobile and digital platforms
• Aligns technology directions with business directions
• Awareness of emerging market trends, technologies and directions for the industry
• Ability to present to both business and technical teams the derived strategy, process and workflow recommendations, initiatives, benefits realization and revenue generation plans.
• Conduct periodical assessment to determine the performance of key metrics, business value from IT projects etc.

Consultative Ability to develop operating procedures and processes for the business architecture practice

• Knowledge of industry standard methods of modeling architectures, capabilities, business motivations
• Ability to recommend and present proposed operating practices
• Creation of roadmaps and workplans for the development of the internal practice in business architecture

Exhibits business partnership

• Cultivates relationships with stakeholders as well as other key internal customers
• Demonstrates strong business acumen to support and understand how solutions fit business needs
• Works with teams, stakeholders and third party vendors to create new value for customers
• Balances strategy and execution
• Provides definitive point of view and recommendations on future architecture needs based on in-depth knowledge of strategic business plans
• Knows the details yet clearly sees and articulates business outcomes
• Takes disconnected ideas and pulls them together in an articulate, relevant and precise point of view

Communicates effectively

• Organizes and communicates complex information clearly, concisely and simply to drive actions
• Communicates to diverse audiences so that information is credible, digestible and easily understood
• Maintains objectivity (neutrality) in face of conflicting viewpoints and uses data and evidence
• Demonstrates a high level of self-awareness as well as awareness of others' emotions

Demonstrates architectural expertise

• Develops and maintains current and target state architectural models
• Stays abreast of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Understands and applies industry standards

Behavioral Competencies

• Provides amazing experiences to both internal and external customers by seeing the big picture, understanding needs and tying them to results, and driving value
• Demonstrates a positive mindset, high levels of character and integrity, and a keen awareness of continuous improvement
• Understands how team efforts are aligned with organizational objectives and priorities
• Advises and collaborates with others to develop strong, positive working relationships across all levels of the organization to drive success of projects and efforts
• Offers creative, innovative, data-based solutions by focusing on forward progress and creativity, even when working through complex, often competing needs
• Adjusts positively to quickly-changing priorities and shifting goals
• Listens to and embraces ideas and insights from others to find better solutions

Skills And Qualifications

• Understanding of and ability to operate within architectural frameworks
• Business architecture fundamentals, including typical models, patterns and practices.
• Utilizing Business Architecture principles and models to identify business gaps, overlaps and risk areas at an Enterprise Level.
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies. Those issues may exist in role alignment, process gaps and overlaps, and business capability maturity gaps
• Ability to visualize and create high-level models (rigorous information-rich diagrams) that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Experience developing and using these high-level models as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• 15 years of experience planning and deploying business and IT initiatives (in Telecom industry). Exposure to operations in ITIL, COBIT environment would be an advantage.
• 10 years of experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (such as eTOM)
• Good exposure to TOGAF
• 8-15 years of experience in BSS (Billing, CRM, Mediation, Provisioning), OSS (Assurance, Fulfilment, Order Management)
• Exceptional communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Must be a Team player and able to work in a team environment effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus. Must be highly reliable, trustworthy, honest, and commitment oriented.
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities.
• Strategy, capability and process modeling
• Facilitating meetings/workshops involving large, cross-functional teams
• Analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Deep understanding of root cause analysis
• Managing cross-functional, complex needs of stakeholders

IT Infrastructure Architect

• Job TypeFull Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
• Experience12 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldICT / Computer  

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for planning, designing and implementing enterprise IT infrastructure (solutions) which will adequately support the enterprise information systems and business goals of the organization under ITO scope.
• Act as subject matter expert for supporting, reviewing and enhancing the existing IT Infrastructure architecture including (but not limited to) those of computing systems, security systems, storage systems, network & voice communication, and entire data center.
• Ensure that all IT infrastructure / systems are working at optimal levels thereby effectively ensuring application availability and performance.
• Drive both short & long term IT infrastructure architecture strategy for the overall IT operations & project portfolio.
• Design, develop and/or validate infrastructure blueprints for the implementation of new solutions under ITO scope.
• Participate in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
• Advise the organization on IT technology standard requirements, methodology and processes; maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations.
• Communicate and validate IT architecture with the infrastructure team, project management office (PMO), and technology services team.
• Develop long-term strategy for historical data retention, and archival plan as required; work with the enterprise architect and applications SMEs to define data retention, backup, and recovery methods and plans.
• Develop and provide comprehensive disaster recovery architecture that incorporates highly available server, storage area network(s) (SAN) and network architectures that are in compliance with required RPOs and RTOs during business continuity events.
• Develop enterprise standards to ensure compatibility and integration of multi-vendor platforms.
• Responsible for impact analysis and design modifications to existing systems to support new solutions.
• Develop specifications for interfaces from existing to new systems.
• Provide third level support for incidents and problems in designated areas of expertise.
• Communicate and collaborate with other staff as well as colleagues in-country and other parts of the world for configuration, troubleshooting. 

QUALIFICATION:

Required Education & Certification:

• Suitable candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering or any related field.
• Masters Degree is not required but may be an advantage.
• ITIL Certification.
• TOGAF 9 Certification. 

Required Experience:

• A minimum of twelve (12) years experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure: hardware, virtual environment, cloud, hosting service and network areas; the most recent eight (8) years must be as a full time IT Infrastructure Architect. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

A suitable candidate must possess:

• Extensive knowledge of IT Infrastructure, data center operations & applications, telecommunications operations, including (but not limited to): Windows Systems, Domains, Active Directory, Exchange; Unix Systems; Storage Systems & Storage Area Network; Network Systems & Equipment/Networking; Virtualization Systems; Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud; IT Systems Consolidation; Information security; and the interaction between IT Systems, Operating Systems, Network, Data Center Systems, and Applications.
• Experience in related IT disciplines such as data processing, multi-vendor hardware platforms, enterprise software applications, database administration and outsourced/managed service systems.
• Strong working knowledge and experience specifically in high availability designs; virtualization; deployment of private/public/hybrid cloud; and IT systems consolidation.
• Ability to produce architectural designs and review designs provided by others.
• Demonstrated ability to apply technology solutions to business problems.
• Knowledge and understanding of industry trends & new technologies, and the ability to apply trends to meet architectural needs.
• Knowledge of infrastructure operations in terms of systems monitoring, capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively in English; effective human-relationship skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment and appropriately prioritize tasks.
• Be familiar with a variety of the IT field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude.
• Persuasive, professional communication style; capability to communicate complex, technical topics to a wide variety of audiences; demonstrated ability to interact with senior management and influence decision makers.
• Strong organizational skills, multi-tasking capabilities, excellent presentation skills, and effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations as they relate to IT infrastructure and technology.

Sales Supervisor/City manager for Mobile Phone

• Job TypeContract  Full Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
• Experience2 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldSales / Marketing  

 

Job Description/Responsibilities 

1. Responsible for the region sell in, sell out Goal
2. Responsible for the area of ​​the new and old customers to expand and maintain
3. Promoters responsible for the daily management and non- management store sales promotion.
4. The terminal stores image building and is responsible for maintenance, planning and implementation of promotional activities
5. Responsible for information collection, feedback and after-sales support Invoicing 

Requirement:

1. Two years’ experience in mobile business at leaet.
2. Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel and Power Point) and Google Office productivity tools.
3. Can accept the deployment.

Snr. IT Sales Manager

• Job TypeFull Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND  
• Experience6 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldSales / Marketing  

 

Job Description/Responsibilities 

1. Responsible for the sale of IT product service in Nigeria Banking industry
2. Responsible for customer relationship management
3. Realize the target for sales, marketing and revenue reorganization
4. Responsible for the establishment of Brand influence of Huawei and Product/Solutions

Candidate Requirements 

1. At least 6 years experience of IT sales in Financial Industry
2. Should be familiar with the product as storage, server, router and switch and IT Services
3. Candidates should have high customer base relationship
4. Experience of working in OEM (e.g. Cisco/Juniper/EMC/IBM/HP) or working in the local influential integrators(e.g. Weco/Dimension data. Etc)
5. Conduct effective and profound customer relationship management and support the project operations.
6. Communicate and coordinate the effective channels/partners for joint project management and support the sales in the financial market. 

PR/ Communication Manager

• Job TypeFull Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA  
• Experience3 - 5 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldMedia / Advertising / Branding  

 

Job Description/Responsibilities 

• Develop comprehensive and detailed communications and PR strategies for Brand /Product and execute them in a timely and effective manner (Internal and external).
• Supervising and liaising with agency to develop and execute the communication contents/articles/events.
• Analyze the effectiveness of these strategies by looking at relevant metrics such as ROI, CAC and CPO as necessary.
• Build relationships with local & international media on behalf of the company including both conventional (newspapers, radio, TV) and digital (bloggers, e-channels) media.
• Organize and coordinate events such as press conferences, exhibitions and conferences.
• Responsible for building and sustaining the company's reputation for quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitoring media and consumer sentiment and follow up with agency for actions as necessary
• Crisis and issue management, including gathering facts, drafting /statements and announcement
• Prepare report for top management on regular basis.

Candidate Requirements 

• Curiosity & passion for Telcom & Mobile industry (a must).
• Willingness to work in a fast-moving, dynamic company and a high comfort with ambiguity/ fast changing targets.
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Strong editorial skills with an eye for attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel and Power Point) and Google Office productivity tools.
• Proven communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Willingness to take challenge and meet deadline under pressure
• Work experience in PR agency, multinational  company, or media is highly preferred
• Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations, Mass Communications, Journalism, Marketing or any other field supported by relevant experience.
• A Master’s degree is an advantage
• Professional certification in Marketing or related field is a plus
• 3 - 5 years’ experience leading a marketing team

Digital/Social Manager

• Job TypeFull Time  
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND   MBA/MSc/MA  
• Experience3 years
• LocationLagos
• Job FieldMedia / Advertising / Branding  

 

Job Description/Responsibilities 

• Develop and adjust digital campaign plans & implementation & execute them in a timely and effective manner (Internal and external).
• Create attractive product centric digital content including social posts and videos.
• Management of our Social Media platforms (Facebook/Twitter).
• SEM & SEO planning and implementation clear evaluate approach.
• Supervising and liaising with agency to develop and execute the campaigns/activities.
• Analyze the effectiveness of these strategies by looking at relevant metrics such as ROI, CPM and CPC as necessary.
• Maintaining our official website.
• Community management, increasing the social followers and driving the fans engagement.
• Build relationships with local & international digital (bloggers, e-channels) media on behalf of the company.
• Monitoring social sentiment /competitor info and follow up with agency for actions as necessary
• Crisis and issue management, including gathering facts, drafting /statements and announcement
• Prepare report for top management on regular basis.
• Review new technologies and keep the company at the forefront of developments in digital marketing.

Candidate Requirements

• Curiosity & passion for Telcom & Mobile industry (a must).
• Excellent coordination & communication skills for internal & external.
• Experience managing PPC, SEO and Affiliate programmers.
• Good Knowledge of Google Analytics/SEM/SEO/Newsletters
• Strong understanding of current online marketing concepts, strategy and best practice.
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Strong editorial skills with an eye for attention to detail
• understand and insight of digital marketing developments and developing trends
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel and Power Point) and Google Office productivity tools.
• Ability to create compelling product-centric digital content with credible reference
• Willingness to take challenge and meet deadline under pressure ,Work experience in Digital agency, multinational company is highly preferred
• Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations, Mass Communications, Journalism, Marketing or any other field supported by relevant experience.
• A Master’s degree is an advantage
• Professional certification in Marketing or related field is a plus
• More than 3 years digital marketing experience is required for this role.

Method of Application

Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.

• Chief Business Architect
• IT Infrastructure Architect
• Sales Supervisor/City manager for Mobile Phone
• Snr. IT Sales Manager
• PR/ Communication Manager
• Digital/Social Manager