Program Manager at Interswitch

Department: Systegra - Digital Infrastructure & Managed Services
Job type: Permanent

Job Description

• To manage software development projects in alignment with engineering process.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning
• Performs industry analysis to increase own awareness on quality standards and provides insights to the Quality Assurance team
• Develops and establishes quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles
• Prepares and delivers reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in IT systems and projects across the organisation
• Agile Project Management
• Ensures satisfactory service with customers at all levels (Business Analyst, Developers, and Management)
• Conducts internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established Quality Assurance standards for software development, application integration, information system performance, and corresponding documentation
• Drive or coordinate agile events in the team, namely; Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo and retrospective
• Ensures that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues
• Ensures proper documentation of all product and project activities
• Reviews new or modified programs, including documentation, diagram, and flow charts, to determine if the programs will perform according to user requests and conform to guidelines
• Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers
• Creates methodologies and processes for the collection and analysis of data for ensuring software, systems, and product quality
• Track project against its schedule and objectives and take corrective actions to address deviations
• Effective and timely use of project management tool to prepare and update project plans and report
• Actively participate in product design and analysis Operations (Systems Analysis)
• Liaise with Operations team on project planning, execution, roll-out and monitoring assists in the deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications
• Conducts research on hardware and software products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts
• Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers / engineers
• Participates in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree / HND in Computer / System / Electrical/ Electronic Engineering / Applied physics / Computer Science or a related discipline
• Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Project Management, Certified Scum Master (CSM), PRINCE2 Foundation/Professional, Associate in Project Management, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Experience
• Minimum of seven (7) years in a similar function with a focus on IT product.