Job Vacancies at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Job Description

• We are looking for a focused technical recruiter to be responsible for the sourcing, screening, and hiring of technical specialists to fill IT positions.
• The technical recruiter's responsibilities include all aspects of hiring, from meeting with hiring managers to write job descriptions to offering job positions to the most suitable candidates.
• You should be focused, hard-working, and able to meet deadlines to the satisfaction of all parties involved.
• To be a successful technical recruiter, you should have a good working knowledge of technology, technical roles, and technical skills, as well as knowledge of the recruitment process.

Responsibilities

• Communicating with hiring managers to identify future job openings and the technical requirements for those jobs.
• Writing job descriptions and posting to relevant media platforms.
• Screening applicants for competency with the job requirements.
• Arranging telephone, video, or in-person interviews.
• Performing background and reference checks.
• Presenting the resumes of the most suitable candidates to the hiring manager.
• Offering job positions and completing the relevant paperwork.
• Keeping track of all applicants as well as keeping applicants informed on the application process.
• Forecasting recruitment budgets.

Requirements / Experience

• A Bachelor of Science with minimum of 2.1 in Computer Science or any engineering related field.
• Master’s degree is an added advantage.
• 1 year work experience.
• To be a successful technical recruiter, you should have a good working knowledge of technology, technical roles, and technical skills, as well as knowledge of the recruitment process.
• A good understanding of technology and technical skills.
• Experience in technical recruitment processes and platforms.
• Good interpersonal and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Fast typing skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills and keen attention to details

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Job Descriprion
Our client requires the services of a database administrator to plan, 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 company 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 company sites are replicating and at par. Implement site switching activities when required.
• Planning dataflow to the database, mapping out the 'conceptual design' for a planned database, refining the 'physical design' to meet system storage requirements
• Maintaining data standards, including adherence to the 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 to database
• 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 to transform business requirements into programmable solutions).
• Excellent Reporting and Communication skills.
• Experience in planning and delivering technology-based projects

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Job Description

• Our client requires the services of a Senior Project Manager who will assist with the delivery of IT projects and programs within specified criteria of time, scope, cost and quality.
• The Senior Project Manager will be expected to handle project support functions, track progress of the projects, develop reports, milestones and budget as well as Interface with System integrators to deliver work.

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

Key Qualifications and Skills

• B.Sc in any Science, Technology or Engineering related course.
• 6 - 8 years working experience as a project manager, preferably in a financial institution.
• Experience with iterative development project delivery
• ITIL, PMP, CBAP, Professional Scrum Product Owner, ISO 21500 Lead Project Manager
• Competency in project management tools
• 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
• Risk management experience in project management
• Sound understanding of change management practices.
• Experience with successful Agile techniques
• Good understanding of the 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
• Initiative/ Entrepreneurship/ taking ownership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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Job Description

• Our client requires an application developer with hands-on experience in planning, developing and management of applications.
• The developer will also be responsible for supporting through administration and patch development (where necessary) of some existing inhouse developed 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)
• 3-4 years practical experience in software application development.
• Expertise and hands-on experience with web applications and programming languages/technologies such as Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, APIs etc.
• Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) as it applies to Python and PHP.
• Strong knowledge of Django framework is essential.
• Knowledge of relational database (Oracle & MySQL).
• Strong experience in frontend development (UI & UX) using HTML and CSS, cross-browser compatibility and general web functions and standards.
• Functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services (REST and SOAP) for API development.
• Knowledge of basic operations of Linux server.
• Experience in using GIT Hub is an added advantage.
• Must know how to use an FTP client such as filezilla, coreftp e.t.c.
• 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).