Department: Fintech
Level: 3H
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Posted: Jun 08, 2026
Deadline: Jun 16, 2026
Status: Open
About MTN
Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is focused on attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining professionals that contribute meaningfully to our mission of making our customers’ lives a whole lot BRIGHTER.
We are an equal employer with a strong culture that looks forward to and encourages creative thinking and innovation while remaining at the forefront of the latest technology and trends.
Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is therefore Internally and Externally recruiting a highly competent and self-motivated individual for the position below.
Mission/Core purpose of the Job
- Responsible for leading the solution architecture and business analysis function at MTN Rwanda, translating business strategy and needs into well-architected, secure, scalable and cost-effective technology solutions.
- Owns architecture governance, solution design and requirements engineering, and serves as the bridge between business and technology across telecom, fintech (MoMo) and digital domains.
- Partners with product, engineering, security, vendors and business leadership to ensure solutions align to enterprise architecture, MTN Group standards and regulatory requirements, and deliver measurable business value.
Key Performance Areas
- Solution Architecture & Design: Lead the design of end-to-end solutions across telecom, fintech and digital domains; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, integrable, maintainable and aligned to business and technical requirements.
- Enterprise Architecture Alignment & Governance: Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns and MTN Group guidelines; participate in architecture review and governance forums.
- Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering: Lead elicitation, analysis, documentation and validation of business and functional requirements; ensure traceability from business need to solution.
- Stakeholder & Demand Management: Engage business and technology stakeholders to understand needs, shape demand, and prioritise initiatives; facilitate workshops and align expectations.
- Integration & API Strategy: Define integration approaches, APIs and middleware patterns to ensure interoperability and reuse across platforms and partners.
- Technology Evaluation & Selection: Assess and recommend technologies, products and vendors; conduct feasibility, options analysis and proofs of concept.
- Security, Compliance & Privacy by Design: Ensure solutions embed security, data protection and regulatory requirements from the outset; partner with Cybersecurity and Compliance.
- Cost & Value Optimisation: Ensure solutions deliver value for money; support business cases, benefits realisation and total-cost-of-ownership analysis.
- Documentation & Standards: Maintain solution designs, architecture artefacts, requirements and standards; promote reuse and knowledge sharing.
- Leadership & People Management: Lead and develop solution architects and business analysts; build a culture of quality, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Prepares and submits regular solution architecture and business analysis reports to technology leadership.
- Lead and develop solution architects and business analysts.
- Establish standards, methods, templates and ways of working for architecture and analysis.
- Conduct performance reviews, coaching and capability development.
Experience
- 10+ years of IT experience, with 5+ years in senior solution architecture and/or business analysis roles.
- Strong experience designing solutions and engineering requirements across complex, integrated environments.
- Proven track record bridging business and technology and delivering measurable value.
- Experience in telecom, fintech, or digital environments is an advantage.
Education Background
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master’s Degree or MBA is an advantage.
- Architecture (e.g., TOGAF) and/or business analysis (e.g., CBAP/CCBA) certifications. Fluent in English.
How To Apply
All interested candidates are requested to apply through the MTN website and submit their updated curriculum vitae with copies of notified academic credentials no later than 16th June 2026 MTN Website portal: https://www.mtn.co.rw/careers/
We strongly encourage applications from women and/or individuals with disabilities.
Note: Should you not hear from us within 14 (fourteen) days from the closing date of this advertisement, you may consider your application unsuccessful. If you encounter any issues when completing the application, reach out to Alozius.Mutamba@mtn.com (+250788319965)
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