Regional Chief Information Officer (RCIO) at United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Reference #: LAG002
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Functions: Banking,Information Technology
Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment,IT - Information Technology

Introduction
The group has vacancies for Regional Chief Information Officer in the following regions;

• CEMAC
• East Africa

The Regional Chief information Officer is responsible for:

• Aligning the regional IT objectives and programs to the company’s objectives and strategies while coordinating Information Technology and Information Systems across the region.
• All technology solution delivery (Internal/vendor/off-the-shelf solutions) and enhancements across the region.
• Managing internal and external application development & deployment in line with best practices.   

Key Responsibilities
Technical Excellence:

• Architecture:
  
  • Possess a good knowledge of design patterns, solution/service oriented architecture, API management and micro-services architecture.
• Frameworks, languages and environments:
  • Possesses a good knowledge of diverse development domains - languages, frameworks (ORM, Entity, Hibernate), utilities, development environments.
  • Possess a good knowledge of Continuous integration and Continuous deployment
  • Good knowledge of solution risk assessment, security considerations, authentication and authorization best practices.
  • Good knowledge of agile development best practices
• Technology Management:
  • Good knowledge of project management, work breakdown structure, execution, reporting and project governance.
  • Develops, recommends and implements long-term and short-term technology plans, budgets and programs that support and align with the strategic objectives of the region and the goals of the business lines, while maximizing the mix of in-house versus outsourced solutions and vendors

People Management:

• Drive interview and selection process and recommend suitably qualified candidates for consideration and final appointment by the authorised official
• Drive good work culture, team responsiveness and healthy work balance
• Facilitate team education & knowledge transfer by training and knowledge sharing session
• Build team structure to aid a systematic relief process and business continuity.
• Imbibe emotional intelligence skills and adequately apply where necessary

Manage Development Process:

• Develop and implement IT standards and procedures to aid in the development of high quality software
• Ensure that all members within the region understand and follow existing IT standards.

Innovation:

• Must be on top of technology stack and learn the latest developments and techniques, as well as broader industry-wide trends
• Drive and sponsor innovation in the team work
• Build team spirit and desire to experiment and try new things and unconventional solutions.
• Build creative solutions adopting cutting edge technologies. Must be forward thinking and daring

Support Troubleshooting efforts in production systems:

• Manage and drive third-level support with in country teams
• Provide support to third parties on solution on boarding and management

Requirements, Qualifications and Experience
Education Requirements:

• First degree in Computer science or Engineering or other related fields
• Masters’ Degree or IT professional qualification will be an advantage

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience, out of which 5 years must have been spent in a managerial role
• Work related experience must consist of operations and information systems management experience in the financial services industry

General:

• Banking products/services
• Object-oriented programming languages e.g. Java, .NET etc.
• Technologies that can drive banking operations
• Finacle Technologies
• Experience in designing and building scaleable and robust solutions in large web application deployments