Technology Architecture Officer at GVA Partners

Job Description

• The Technology Architecture Officer will oversee the technical stack of the financial institution suite of digital products
• As such, the Technology Achitect will be the de facto company expert on Digital Technology and will be responsible for designing a technical platform that is optimized for scale, growth, and high performance
• The Technology Architecture Officer will demonstrate technical expertise, strong communication skills, and leadership in a consultative role to product and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate, design, scope, and document integration effort for new products, processes, technologies, and solutions
• Design and maintain a detailed technical architecture roadmap and structure across a multi-system e-commerce and in-store environment
• Align the platform vision and overall roadmap with the technical requirements of the stack
• Develop technical implementation plans and timelines with key engineering stakeholders and enterprise standards
• Communicate technical needs and limitations clearly and effectively
• Collaborate with Head of Product, CIO, and Executive suite on creating a holistic long-term strategic vision that satisfies business objectives
• Design complex digital solutions within the IT portfolio of systems
• Works to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

Skills & Knowledge

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Demonstrated ability architecting multi-tenet systems and platforms, across a variety of platforms
• Have significant integration experience with the Nigerian payment ecosystem
• Have significant social network integration experience
• Experience
• At least 6 years of related work experience
• iOS, Android, and/or web development experience
• Enterprise-level experience in scaled solutions that track and report on real time and historical data efficiently, accurately, consistently.