Date:  Feb 19, 2026

Head of Channel Management Systems

Location: 

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Level:  All
Employment Status:  Permanent
Department:  Group Digital Commercial
Description: 

Short Description

Provides strategic leadership and end-to-end ownership of all customer channel platforms across modern and legacy touchpoints, including omnichannel, chatbots, messaging, USSD, SMS, and emerging channels. Drives channel strategy, architecture, engineering excellence, and delivery to enable seamless customer experiences, scalability, and business growth.

Long Description

Job Responsibilities

  • Define and own the enterprise channel management strategy, roadmap, and target architecture

  • Lead planning, solutioning, engineering, and delivery of all customer channel platforms

  • Ensure seamless integration across digital, core, and network systems

  • Govern architecture standards, APIs, security, and operational excellence across channels

  • Drive modernization of legacy channels and adoption of new technologies

  • Oversee platform reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency

  • Manage senior stakeholders, vendors, and strategic partners

  • Align channel capabilities with customer experience, revenue, and transformation goals

 
Technical Competencies
SMSC/SMS Gateway & Firewall architecture, routing, and scalability design
USSD, IVR/Voice, and SDP platforms with service flow and API integrations
Charging (OCS/IN) integration for real-time billing and revenue assurance
End-to-end solutioning, capacity planning, and cost-efficient platform design aligned to business needs
Automation and scripting (Shell/Python/API) for provisioning and deployment efficiency
SMPP (v3.4/5.0), SS7 (MAP/CAP/TCAP), SIGTRAN (M3UA/SCTP), Diameter
HTTP/REST APIs and integration automation scripting
Linux administration and MySQL/PostgreSQL databases
Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, Load Balancer, DNS, Firewall)
Virtualization, Containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines