Job Vacancies at a Top Tier Commercial Bank - Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Job Description

• Our client requires the service of a highly skilled PMO with Fin-tech experience to join a dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and leading the Project Management Office (PMO) to the highest governance standards in line with the organization’s strategic focus, overseeing project management staff and providing guidance on PMO processes and policies.
• This individual will manage the day-to-day activities of the PMO.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and management of program and project governance frameworks and development of appropriate reporting tools which deliver value.
• Review programs and project for deliverability including adequate resourcing.
• Ensures all governance reporting is accurate and timely, with appropriate updates on projects timeframes, budgets, scope, and benefits.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Provide metrics to evaluate project managers and other related staffs of their projects.
• Provide oversight on project resourcing.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Head, Program Delivery.
• Participate in an all IT Planning and Policy development efforts.
• Facilitate the resolutions f any issues encountered.
• Oversees the production of periodic project report for senior management.
• Provide supportive leadership, motivating, and directing staffs as they work.
• Influence internal stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome, including process improvement of the PMO.

Qualifications and Experience
Mandatory:

• B.Sc in STEM
• Minimum of 10 years’ working experience as a project manager, preferably in financial institution.
• Experience with iterative development project delivery.
• Competency in project management tools

Desirable:

• Relevant professional qualifications and master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• Certification include: Professional Scrum Master, Professional Product Owner, Program Management Professional (PGPM), Management, Project Management Professional PMP, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

Skills / Competencies:

• Proven experience as a PMO manager or other management position.
• Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods.
• Good understanding of financial services industry and need for periodically embarking on IT enabled business change projects.
• Working knowledge of contract management.
• Risk management experience in project management.
• Sound understanding of project management practices.
• Adequate knowledge of package implementation of integrated systems.
• Strong knowledge and use of project management methodologies and its implementation.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Good understanding of Agile methodology.
• Excellent organization and coordination skills.
• High level of accountability.
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
• Detailed oriented with problem solving.
• Good leadership skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Good oral & written communication skills.
• Strong resource management experience.
• Good mentorship skills.

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Summary

• We require the service of a highly skilled Project manager with Fin-tech experience to join a dynamic team. The successful candidate will assist with the delivery of assigned IT projects and programs, within specified criteria of time, scope, cost and quality.
• This individual will handle project support functions, track the progress of the projects and develop reports on progress, milestones and budget and Interface with System Integrators to deliver work.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of assigned project work packages, escalating issues that are beyond set tolerances to the Team Lead, IT Projects and -programs for resolution.
• Document project business cases in conjunction with Project Owners.
• Help with the development of quality assurance test plans and participate in testing.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Head, Program Delivery and Program Manager.
• Participate in all IT Planning and policy development efforts.
• Facilitate the resolution of any issues encountered.
• Assist with quality management for solutions deployment and day-to-day operations.
• Help with the production of periodic project reports.
• Coordinate end users training before delivery of solutions.

Qualifications and Experience
Mandatory:

• BSc in STEM
• Minimum of 4 years' working experience as a project manager, preferably in a financial institution.
• Experience with iterative development project delivery.
• Competency in project management tools

Desirable:

• Relevant professional certifications.
• Certifications Include: ITIL, PMP, PRINCE 2, CBAP, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Master, ISO 21500.

Skills / Competencies:

• Ability to use initiatives.
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• Good knowledge of Project Planning and Management Skills.
• Sound understanding of change management practices.
• Good understanding of financial services industry and the need for periodically embarking on IT enabled business change projects.
• Adequate knowledge of package implementation of integrated systems.
• Working knowledge of contract management, budget, and cost management.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Organization and coordination skills.
• Performance management.
• Ability to take ownership.
• General managerial/administrative skills.
• Self-management
• Interpersonal skills
• Good oral & written communication

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Summary

• Our client requires the service of a highly skilled Business Analyst with Fin-Tech experience to join a 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the business problems / needs from business executives, product managers, operations managers and business users.
• Analyses and documents detailed business requirements including data and non-functional requirements.
• Document functional requirement utilizing various techniques including user stories, use cases, data flow diagrams, swim lanes diagrams, workflow diagrams, screen mock-ups, etc.
• Obtain sign-off against the business requirements.
• Communicate business requirements to development and quality assurance staff.
• Ensures traceability between business and functional requirements.
• Validate system design against requirements.
• Review and validates test cases produced by the quality assurance staff.
• Understand technology solutions to business problems and communicate the solution back to business.
• Conduct gap analysis and downstream impact exercises for system changes.
• Serves as a first point of contact for development staff to understand requirements specifically during the implementation/coding phase.

Qualifications and Experience

• B.Sc in Business, Engineering, IT or a related discipline
• 2-8 years’ working experience as a business analyst, preferably in a financial institution
• Relevant professional certifications
• Certifications include : ITIL, PMP, PRINCE 2, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Master, ISO 21500

Skills / Competencies:

• Ability to make use of tools & techniques in requirement analysis or elicitation.
• Customer relationship management skill.
• Problem solving/analytical skill
• Negotiation and conflict resolution skill
• Business analysis skills
• System analysis skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Creative and innovative skills
• Process involvement skills
• Adequate knowledge of information and knowledge of management
• Initiative/Entrepreneurship/taking ownership
• Interpersonal skills
• Oral and written communication.

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Job Description

• We require the services of a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with Fin-Tech experience to oversee the development and implementation of new software systems, update existing software and conduct feasibility studies on new software systems.
• The successful candidate will function as lead developer, guide application coding, create reports, and mentor the junior developers.
• This individual must have in-depth knowledge of programming languages and working knowledge of project management and must ensure timely delivery of projects and tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Meeting with project delivery managers to discuss software projects.
• Conducting feasibility studies for software systems.
• Designing new software programs, websites, and applications.
• Assigning tasks to junior developers such as coding, testing, debugging, and analytics.
• Writing advanced programming code.
• Reviewing updated software codes.
• Managing project timelines and tasks.
• Writing development reports.
• Creating technical documents for new software programs.
• Training staff on software use.
• Working on complex bug fixes

Qualifications & Experience
Mandatory:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
• 5-8 years of relevant software design and development experience
• Prior product development experience
• Experience with software architecture principles, requirements and interfaces, and software systems engineering experience
• Has executed several software projects

Desirable:

• Up to 8 years of professional programming experience using Microsoft stack
• Relevant professional certifications
• Managerial experience preferred.

Skills / Competencies:

• Proficient in back-end and front-end development
• Knowledge of automated testing
• Advanced knowledge of software development tools, such as Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL server management studio e.t.c.
• Knowledge of source code control tools
• Knowledge of code review using PR (Pull Request)
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as Azure and AWS
• Knowledge in building cloud-native applications using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages including JavaScript, HTML5, C#, Java, SQL, and PHP.
• Knowledge of system frameworks including .NET, Git, AngluarJS, and GitHub.
• Experience creating and maintaining databases.
• Experience working with Agile development technologies. Experience with systems deployed on Unix/Linux/Solaris environments.
• Provide overall team guidance and fix all escalations.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Experience with software architecture principles, requirements and interfaces, and software systems engineering experience
• Project management skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

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Job Overview

• Our client requires the service of a highly skilled Software Engineer with Fin-Tech experience to join a dynamic team.
• Full stack web development
• Gather user requirements, write code using an agile methodology, and continuously update the back-end code of the product
• Work in an experienced software design team
• Report directly to lead software engineer
• Assist with all functions of software coding and design
• Learn codebase, gather user data and respond to requests from senior software engineers
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly, and capable of working in a team environment
• A good working knowledge of major programming languages

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting lead engineer with all aspects of software design and coding.
• Attending and contributing to software delivery meetings.
• Learning the codebase and improving your coding skills.
• Writing and maintaining code.
• Working on software bug fixes.
• Monitoring the technical performance of internal systems.
• Gathering information from consumers about program functionality.
• Writing reports.
• Conducting development tests.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Lead Software Engineer.

Qualifications & Experience
Mandatory-Desirable:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
• 3-5 years’ experience in programming languages (e.g., Python, Javascript, Java, C++, C#), databases, data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of databases and operating systems
• Excellent basic knowledge about Information Technology from both a software and hardware perspective
• Up to 5 years of professional programming experience using Microsoft stack
• Relevant professional certifications.

Skills / Competencies
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of coding languages including C#, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Basic programming experience.
• Ability to implement software security measures (OWASP Top 10)
• Good working knowledge of version control system using gitflow.
• Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly.
• Ability to manage codebase on a version control.
• Software testing and debugging

Knowledge of Agile/Scrum project delivery formats-Generic Skills:

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

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An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and talented scrum master to join a dynamic team. 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Guides team in scrum practices, removes impediments, and protect team from any outside interference that could deter from goals
• Support product management to maintain and prioritise a roadmap of product features and initiatives for development teams to deliver
• Agile reporting: provide data, forecasts, and progress updates to inform planning
• Champion and role model for collaborative behaviours, agile values, and professionalism
• Provide stakeholders with access to current and accurate data on the status of the team's delivery and ensure that technical quality standards are adhered to

EXPERIENCE/TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 4+ years of Agile Project Management
• B.Sc. in Computer Science
• Experience in Agile Delivery tools (JIRA, Azure Devops)
• Slack and other collaboration tools
• Relevant Scrum Certifications