Jobs at GVA Partners

Job Overview

• An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and talented IT Project Manager to join a dynamic project team.

The resource shall be responsible for:

• Overseeing and managing the Project Based Services engagements.
• Candidate must be able to proactively work to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including project timeline, client requirements, and critical dependencies.
• Candidate must possess strong financial skills with strong attention to detail.

POSITION SUMMARY & KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Required to oversee projects. This role originates in the Plan Phase and extend through the Deployment Phase of the Project Management Governance Process; Oversight of Project from Concept Phase through Deployment via other Project Managers
• Decompose projects into time-phased elements and prioritize key deliverables; Assumes full accountability for overall success of a project through deployment.
• Define project goals and objectives; Identify customer requirements; Identify resource requirements; Develop project budget; Track incurred and projected expenses against program plan and report to management.
• Prioritize resource allocation; Assist with resource negotiation; Manage cost/schedule/resource variances
• Produce project documentation; Establish/maintain project information system; Monitor and control project
• Develop and be accountable for the overall project plan; Ensure resources are committed and engaged for all project phases
• Primary function of role is translating customer IT services requirements into customer solutions/contracts that secure customer loyalty, drive acceptable profit margins and are delivered with fidelity
• Role requires strong project management skills and leadership in a dynamic and deadline driven environment
• Required to qualify and develop a solution that is mutually acceptable to the client and the company
• Liaise closely with pricing analysts to ensure operational commitments are translated accurately into cost assumptions
• Provide sales team with technical and service presales support; Prepare and deliver services presentations to current and prospective customers
• Negotiates directly with customers and contractors
• Certifications and proficiency in Technology and Telecom fields of knowledge. Cisco wireless certifications are an asset.
• Ensures the program meet established time, cost, technical and customer objectives
• Resolving issues across project teams, individual project stakeholders, and program stakeholders & sponsors.
• Coordinating resources across all project teams and allocating funds as necessary.
• Managing the program's budget, monitoring expenditure and ensuring that the program realizes its financial & business benefits.
• Managing risk and taking corrective measures to resolve issues
• Managing communication across all stakeholders, third-party contributors and project leaders
• Maintaining the program documentation, including all plans, timelines and briefs.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7 plus years of related experience in customer facing, technology deployment and support environment
• 5 years plus in Project Management and 3 plus in Financial Management
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or Telecom background (Minimum 2:2)
• Ability to work under tight timelines in a demanding environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills • Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work closely with the Business Leaders, IT Partners, and peers for the project, the customer and the development/implementation team within a Project Team environment
• Interface with multiple business functions and organizations, as well as multiple specialists, in defining, producing and managing plans for successful project delivery
• Ability to lead/coordinate a cross-functional team, ensuring that projects meet defined scope, time, cost and quality constraints
• Ability to deal with organizational influences, ambiguity and continuous change
• Ability to manage multiple programs

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We require the service of a highly skilled Business Analyst with experience to join our dynamic team. The successful individual will conduct business analysis for new product releases and new projects. This individual will be involved in requirement analysis, documentation, scope validation, coordination and assessment of requests from stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Assess the scope of the API project (what the business wants) and defines the milestones
• Facilitates brainstorming sessions between all the stakeholders, knowledge matter experts and engineering team
• Establish and evaluates the API requirements and define the API Requirements
• Documentation (API client requirements, REST services, class diagrams)
• Translates API client needs into technical API specifications (OpenAPI )
• Create user stories for the delivery team
• Elaborate the deliverables of the acceptance phase: acceptance strategy, acceptance notebooks, acceptance reports
• Carry out the UATs and organize the test phases with the business users and product owners
• Collaborate with the different members of the project team according to the project phase
• Produce the necessary documentation for each project phase (API Requirements Documentation)

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, engineering, statistics or other related fields (Master degree is a plus) with at least 3 years building business software
• Excellent functional and technical proficiency in software development (Domain Driven Design, UML Diagrams, Design Pattern…)
• Mandatory knowledge of API design and implementation (REST API, OpenAPI)
• Experience with an API Management Platform (Apigee, MuleSoft, Axway, Software AG…)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps methodology and good knowledge of an Agile Project Management Tool (Azure DevOps, JIRA…)
• Good understanding of Micro services architecture and cloud technologies with knowledge of C# or Java or Python
• An ability to visualize data using presentations, diagrams, infographics
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills with high level of critical thinking

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• The ideal candidate should have experience in analysis and design tasks related to testing and Quality Assurance, to be able to interface with Business Analyst, Project Managers and Developers to deliver on projects, and to work on other tasks as assigned by team Leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Execute testing scripts using approved tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Apply testing processes for new and existing products
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements Monitor debugging process results
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers
• Ensure that testing activities will allow applications meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop testing strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, and acceptance testing methods.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Perform other duties as assigned by the QA Manager

Skills/Competencies

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance and Testing Methodologies
• Knowledge of API testing
• Experience in automated testing (Cypress, Appium, Katalon, Selenium, etc.
• Knowledge of Data base testing
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes Understanding of use-case
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.

Generic Skills

• Ability to make sound and logical security judgments.
• Demonstrated leadership and personnel/project management skills.
• Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Able to conduct research into issues as required

Qualifications & Experience Mandatory

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related numerate science or engineering discipline.
• Knowledge with test automation processes and tools.
• Record of accomplishment of delivering high quality infrastructure products on time.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and distributed environment and adapt to internally triggered changes.
• Experience with using SOAP & REST APIs
• Identify, reproduce and isolate bugs, and drive the issues to completion.

Desirable

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
• Relevant professional certifications
• Experience in automated testing (Cypress, Appium, Katalon, Selenium, etc.)
• Managerial experience preferred

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• As a scrum master, you will be our go-to person for applying scrum to produce high-quality work.
• You will coordinate and coach our software development team, helping the team continuously make progress on the project by making sure each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team members’ progress, and protecting the team from distractions.
• You will guide, coach and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity
• Organize and lead Scrum ceremonies
• Communicated with main stakeholders
• Oversee and manage scope, timeline, quality, goals and deliverables that support business goals
• Monitor schedule and cost performance

Identify key KPIs

• Prepare and present reports on the progress and success
• What do you need to be considered for this role?
• Passionate about Scrum, Kanban , Lean Thinking, Lean Startup , eXtreme Programming, SAFe , LeSS, etc.
• 5+years of experience as a Scrum Master or similar role in a development team
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Certified Product Owner (CSPO)
• Demonstrated experience with agile practices, patterns and techniques
• Demonstrated experience in Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games etc.
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

Team player

• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

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• The developer will also be responsible for supporting through administration and patch development (where necessary) of some existing in-house applications. Ensuring delivery of projects according to agreed timelines, excellent user experience and 99% application/service availability are some of the critical requirements of this role.
• Specifically, the developer role will include;
• Gathering and developing user specifications requirement documents for every project initiative.
• Developing project implementation plans for each initiative.
• Application development, deployment and support.
• Admin and user guides/manual development.
• User training and solution handover.

Keys Skills & Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or any other technology disciplines (e.g., Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science)
• 3-4 years practical experience in designing and building software applications development.
• Expertise and hands on experience with web applications and programming languages/technologies such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, APIs etc.
• Hand on experience with phyton, Django, Django rest framework.
• Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) as it applies to PHP & Phyton.
• Strong knowledge of Laravel framework is essential.
• Knowledge of relational database (Oracle & MySQL) and other database systems (e.g., MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Must be knowledgeable in front-end development (UI & UX), cross-browser compatibility and general web functions and standards.
• Functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services (REST and SOAP).
• Knowledge of basic operations of Linux server.
• Experience with GIT, Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, Java, Spring Boot is an added advantage
• Must know how to use an FTP client such as filezilla, coreftp e.t.c.
• Ability to read and debug a code is very important.
• Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to software and the web in general.
• Good problem solving and logical thinking skills (ability to transform business requirements into programmable solutions).
• Good Communication skills.
• Experience in planning and delivering software platforms used across multiple organizational units (multitenancy).

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Job Overview

• The role objective is tplan, maintain and develop databases incorporating the following principles:
• That members access data concurrently in a form that suits their needs.
• That there is adequate provision for data security and recovery control (all data is retrievable in an emergency).

Responsibilities

• Administrative Activities – Administer all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures at all Sites.
• Storage (Including the SANs) – Ensure proactive management of storage allocations for all the databases and promptly request for/implement expansions where necessary.
• Performance Reporting/Tuning – Continually ensure that databases are performing optimally through regular tuning and monitoring.
• Backup/Restore – Maintain regular/period backup of all databases and ensure they are up-to-date. Periodically conduct test restore of backups.
• Replication & Site Switching Activities – Ensure databases at all sites are replicating and at par. Implement site switching activities when required.
• Planning dataflow tthe database, mapping out the 'conceptual design' for a planned database, refining the 'physical design' tmeet system storage requirements.
• Maintaining data standards, including adherence tthe data privacy regulations wherever applicable.
• Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary.
• Controlling access permissions and privileges for access tdatabase
• Capacity planning
• Administration of all issues regarding Database servers
• Supervise and control all Database servers inventories

Keys Skills & Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or any other technology disciplines (e.g. Engineering, Physics)
• 5-8 years practical experience in Database and Core Business Application Administration.
• Expertise and hands on experience with Oracle Administration and generally working with data on different relational and non-relational Database Management Systems (DBMS).
• Expertise and hands on experience with Windows Server and Linux Operating system administration.
• Good problem solving and logical thinking skills (ability ttransform business requirements intprogrammable solutions).
• Excellent Reporting and Communication skills.
• Experience in planning and delivering technology-based projects