Job Openings at a Financial Institution - Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Job Descriptions

• The Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) has overall responsibility and ownership for the design and implementation of Client's enterprise architecture and associated strategy.
• A key objective with the enterprise architecture is to drive simplification and standardisation across the application and infrastructure portfolio.
• The enterprise architecture will also function as the vision of a target state architecture that enables Client's business growth strategy.
• This position is responsible for the technical and architectural aspects of enterprise wide business decisions including the strategy and planning for applications, infrastructure, network, security, and data architecture. This includes the establishment of a governance process which ensures adherence to these architectures and enables the organization to make informed business decisions when choosing solutions and technologies.
• The CEA must possess extensive experience from information industry and financial services with large numbers of users, including experience with major technology development environments, architecture design and implementation, and large systems integration. Industry standards, including service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches, will be utilized to integrate components and systems as well as preserve current and future technology investment.
• The CEA's responsibilities include the continuing digitization of our current IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations, and setting the direction and approach for integrating information applications and programs. The Enterprise Architect will also be responsible for cataloguing, developing, coordinating, communicating, maintaining, and enforcing overall enterprise architecture models, representations, initiatives, capabilities, and components to adequately perform the organization's business and technology activities.
• The CEA must exhibit excellent technical, analytical, and project management skills. They should also have strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Essential Functions

• Establishes an architect capability within the IT department including an enterprise architecture group reporting into the CTO, and a domain architecture layer owned by solutions architects in the software engineering team.
• Establishes an enterprise architecture encompassing:
  • Application architecture
  • Application platform architecture
  • Content and data architecture
  • Infrastructure architecture
  • Architectural governance
• Establishes a capability to monitor competitor's activities as it relates to technology, technology adoption, partnerships etc.
• Establishes the capabilities to stay up to date on new technology developments in the general global marketplace.
• Actively contributes to increasing the exposure within the institution to new ideas, ways to leverage technology and new trends in the technology market to foster innovation.
• Develops a technology strategy, organization supporting transformation initiatives, and the development and deployment of companywide enterprise architectures.
• Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.
• Organizing training to improve employees' knowledge and skills for future organizational growth.
• Conducting research in talent management to improve the organization's business operations.
• Identifies and drives opportunities to simplify and leverage the existing tools / assets and resources across IT.
• Develops and fosters a culture of technical excellence and innovation across the business.
• Researches and plans the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet changing business directives.
• Identifies commonalities between businesses and develops an action plan to guide management and peers toward one architecture vision.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

• Client office environment in Lagos, Nigeria
• Occasional travel to the bank's branch and operational locations.

Required Experience

• A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in system architecture in a multi-entity, complex, and distributed environment required. Ideally this will have been in a financial institution.
• TOGAF 9 Certification
• ITIL Foundation Certification at a minimum, Strategic Leader (SL) preferred.
• Technology consulting and proven project management experience preferred.
• Experience with architecture technology as part of the revenue stream and product offering, and not part of internal systems preferred.
• Experience with dev-ops and the automation of testing builds and deployment is preferred.

Required Skills:

• A strong, pragmatic approach to leading architecture and development solutions, with a proven record in technology strategy planning and delivery.
• Experience with the development, ownership, and successful delivery of an enterprise wide technology architecture plan that has achieved application simplification and standardization.
• Be comfortable building systems architecture artefacts using modelling and being able to effectively communicate architectural intention to delivery teams for execution.
• Strong / expert level technology skills and understandings.
• The ability to prove the value of the function to the organization, make it meaningful and accountable; and as a result, use it to influence decisions.
• Ability to communicate technical information effectively and efficiently to both technical and non-technical management and staff.
• An expert-level technologist and architect with a passion and enthusiasm for technology
• Demonstrated ability to work individually and build the enterprise architecture function from scratch.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and very effective time management skills. Proven ability to influence people indirectly, work with people in multi-functional roles, and success in being a driver of change
• Able to manage towards both short term goals and long-term goals. Project management and process experience including the ability to accurately estimate resources, timeframe, and budgets needed for projects and deliverables
• Experience with the development, ownership, and successful delivery of an enterprise wide technology architecture plan that has achieved application simplification and standardization.

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Job Description

• The role of a Head of IT is one that requires you to provide technical directions to the fintech affiliate of the organization. While technically literate and capable, the position is primarily a leadership one, and the Head of IT will be responsible for building and leading the technical team to maintain and improve upon the existing technological infrastructure of the firm.
• You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver strongly on the objectives of the firm within set timelines. You will be familiar with technological trends and a variety of business concepts. The right person has project management experience with retail products in Nigeria, and is able to show evidence of shipping products in the Nigerian environment.
• We seek a Head of IT with excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. Previous leadership experience is required as you will be reporting to our executive team, and the right candidate will have the opportunity to gain significant responsibility within the company.
• The ideal candidate will possess strong business acumen, be a strategic and tactical thinker, and be able to work and think systemically in the context of a larger team. You should be able to deliver strongly on big ideas and transform them into scalable projects.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the firms existing mobile and web applications and their respective infrastructures
• Develop and implement strategic road maps for launching the firms products and scaling them to capture significant share of their target market
• Advise senior management of key technological and human resources required to ensure
• successful delivery of the firms objectives and develop a budget for approval by the board of directors
• Drive the product development initiatives of the business from idealization to market launch by working closely with cross functional teams such as software developers, application designers, product developers
• Develop and implement a framework for application security that prevents vulnerabilities against threats and safeguards the company’s resources on a continuous basis
• Use analytic tools to track users behavior and develop a process for utilizing the
• information derived to make better business decisions
• Set-up a contact center management team, develop and implement omnichannel strategies to improve users experience and drive better relationships
• Develop a mechanism for collating users feedback on applications and products, and using
• these feedbacks to make iterations to the firms applications and products
• Evaluate, recommend and oversee any changes in system architecture
• Ensure all applications are continuously updated to reflect global industry standards, trends and innovations
• Ensure that the firms technological processes are in compliance with all requirements, laws and regulations
• Monitor performance, prepare periodic reports for senior management review, and align road maps with the firms objectives
• Develop excellent working relationships with relevant third parties such as strategic stakeholders, IT, and business consultants, influencers, agents, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years relevant experience
• Experience in building and managing application infrastructures
• Experience managing enterprise applications
• Experience in managing application security
• Demonstrated experience in the development of digital products from problem definition and design thinking to design, agile implementation, iteration, launching and maintenance
• Demonstrated experience in testing and quality assurance of digital products
• Working knowledge of financial systems applications for fintech
• Working knowledge of front-end and back-end languages/technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java, Swift, Python, PHP, Ruby
• Sound knowledge of front-end and back-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue
• Working knowledge of database concepts such as SQL, NoSQL, Web storage API
• Strong ability to debug and problem-solve in a timely manner
• Excellent leadership skills and emotional intelligence.