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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Summary of Functions

• Tailoring the SIEM solution to unique infrastructure and business needs
• Monitor the overall performance of security systems depicted in appendix A
• Identity and Access Management Monitoring/Alerting
• Endpoint monitoring
• Constantly oversee and analyze security defenses per on-prem and cloud infrastructure
• Participate in the delivery of cybersecurity operations through vulnerability and threat identification, incident detection and response, forensic investigations, Patch and Vulnerability Management. Engage with infrastructure and applications teams in mitigation and remediation efforts.
• Maintain key metrics that are indicative of the security posture of the infrastructure.
• Keep abreast of threat intelligence feeds to stay abreast of industry reports and emerging threat that may affect.
• Produce Executive Dashboard Security reporting showing actionable insights from IT Security monitoring tools
• Engage with other IT units, where applicable, to establish and enforce security best practices, protection objectives, and process improvements.

Education, Experience, and Skills required

• Bachelor’s degree/HND in Computer Science, Information Technology or Cybersecurity related field
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Cyber security, with at least 5 years of working as SOC Analyst
• Experience with Windows/Unix/Linux Operating systems with a focus on cybersecurity
• Relevant industry certifications (i.e. CISSP, CASP+ CEH, GCIH, GCIA, OSCP)
• Experience with SIEM (Arcsight), EDR (Falcon Crowdstrike, Packet Analysis, HIPS/NIPS, Network Monitoring tools, Service Now Ticketing, Web Security.
• Communicates clearly with diverse technical and business owners.
• Familiarity with regulations and frameworks such as NIST, PCI, ISO 27001

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Job Overview

• A Solution Architect, or IT Solution Architect, is responsible for using their knowledge of computer systems to help their employer solve business problems.
• Their duties include working closely with IT professionals to develop and integrate computer systems, reviewing existing systems to identify areas for improvement and monitoring the outcome of new or upgraded systems on business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business needs to develop solutions from design to technological product.
• Oversee developer teams to ensure that product is delivered on time and to specifications.
• Determine technical needs such as hardware, software, scalability and security requirements.
• Coordinate design and integration of overall architecture and parts of proposed systems with business.
• Perform consistent update to documentation and designs as needed.
• Conducting an evaluation of the computer system architecture with an emphasis on the design
• Analyzing the system throughout the enterprise system
• Creating and maintaining or enhancing procedures, processes and designs for a computer system
• Ensuring that the application architecture team can deliver system solutions for computer architecture.

Skills/Competencies

• Ability to research new technologies.
• Proficient in Enterprise Architecture tools. e.g., Visio, Draw.io etc.)
• Good knowledge and understanding of Cloud and On-Premise
• Ability to interpret business requirements
• Analytical Skills/ Problem solving
• Self-Management
• Interpersonal Skills
• Oral & Written communication - processing/spreadsheet

Qualifications & Experience

Mandatory

• BSc in STEM
• Minimum of 6 years cognate IT experience, 3 of which must be in either infrastructure or software development

Desirable

• Relevant professional certifications will be an added advantage e.g. ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF