Jobs at a Commercial Bank - Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

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 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
• 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 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 the services of a Business Analyst who will assist with the conduct of Business Analysis for new product releases and new projects.
• The Business Analyst would be involved in the coordination and assessment of requests from stakeholders as well as perform Requirement Analysis, Documentation and Scope validation.

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 requirements 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 solutions back to the business.
• Conduct gap analysis and downstream impact exercises for system changes.
• Services as a first point of contact for development staff to understand requirements specifically during the implementation / coding phase.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• B.Sc in a Business, Engineering, IT or a related discipline
• 2 - 6 years' working experience as a business analyst
• ITIL, PMP, CBAP, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Master, ISO 21500
• 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 thinking skills
• Process Improvement skills
• Adequate knowledge of information and knowledge management
• Initiative/Entrepreneurship/taking ownership.
• Interpersonal skills
• Oral and written communication.

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Job Description

• Our client requires the services of a Program Manager with experience in interative development project delivery who will be responsible for building and leading a team of Project Managers to provide professional growth and ensure successful project delivery.
• The Program Manager will be responsible for organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization and track the progress of the projects, develop reports, milestones and budget as well as Interface with System integrators to deliver work.

Responsibilities

• Formulating, organizing, and monitoring inter-connected projects
• Coordinating cross project activities.
• Apply change, resource, and risk management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Lead and evaluate project managers and other related staff.
• Resolve projects’ higher scope issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Head, Program Delivery.
• 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.
• Oversees the production of periodic project reports for senior management.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• B.Sc in any Science, Technology or any Engineering related course
• 10 - 12 years' working experience as a project manager, preferably in a financial institution.
• Experience with iterative development project delivery
• Professional Scrum Master, Professional Product Owner, Program Management Professional (PGMP), Management, Project Management Professional PMP, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Competency in project management tools
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Proven experience as a program manager or other managerial position
• Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods
• Demonstrable experience leading Agile projects as a Scrum Master or Product Owner
• Risk management experience in project management
• Sound understanding of change management practices.
• 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
• 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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Responsibilities
An exciting opportunity exists for a highly skilled IT security engineer to join a dynamic project team. The resource shall be responsible for the following:

• Carry out procedural system maintenance on all IT systems.
• Ensure all networks including but not limited to LAN, MAN, WAN, GAN meets the demand of the company.
• Troubleshoot system and network problems, diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults and replace parts as required.
• Maintain all IT system work flows.
• Maintain and update all IT Networks.
• Maintain and contribute to the development of IT Network.
• Participate actively in developing, planning and implementing advance IT systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Functions

• Lead cyber security initiatives in conjunction with Group Cybersecurity team.
• Design and implement security controls to safeguard and monitor events for information systems, enterprise applications and data.
• Lead the implementation of Information Security projects
• Drive internal and external vulnerability assessment, penetration tests engagements and manage results to remediation.
• Respond to escalated security events and drive security incident response processes to ensure timely resolution with minimal disruption.
• Design, document, and deploy secure infrastructure solutions to enhance and evolve the security posture of the business to ensure integrity, availability and confidentiality of all critical enterprise data.
• Provide expertise on security tools, including but not limited to firewalls, Web Application firewalls, IDS/IDP, anti-malware software
• Liaise with stakeholders in respect of operational implementation of security policies and best practices
• Collaborate with the Client Server Team to ensure that technical plans are practical, controls are sustainable, and implementations are managed to minimize risks and adverse impact to servers, workstations and user productivity.
• Implement the infrastructure, configurations and processes to monitor security related events
• Prevent data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect the enterprise network.
• Guard all company data, particularly sensitive data, from both internal and external threats by designing broad defenses against would-be intruders
• Take the lead on day-to-day monitoring for unusual activities, implement defensive protocols, and report incidents
• Collaborate with other members of the cybersecurity team to develop new protocols, layers of protection, and other both proactive and defensive systems that stay one step ahead of cyber criminals
• Maintain security guidelines, procedures, standards and controls documentation
• Maintain a working knowledge of current cybercrime tactics

Supervisory / Managerial Responsibilities:

• Ensure conformance to Cyber security Blueprint / Roadmap
• Provide inputs to company strategic plan on all initiatives to ensure that Security gaps/vulnerabilities are identified & closed
• Establish and ensure credibility through strong relationships, value-add to operations and professionalism

Experience

• 3 - 5 years of experience in an area of Security specialisation; with experience working with others
• Experience working in a Large organization and preferably in the Telecommunications industry
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies to include devices such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion/extrusion detection, vulnerability & risk assessment tools, encryption technologies, virus/worm/malware prevention, E-business and web application technologies, Data Loss Prevention, whole disk & device encryption solutions, two-factor authentication, common Windows (desktop & server) platforms,
• Experience with Microsoft, Solaris, Unix, Oracle and MSSQL
• Experience working in telecommunications industry
• Managing network and/or network security
• Knowledge should be current with information security best practices and global trends
• Knowledge of security best practices such as; defense in-depth, least privileges, need-to-know, separation of duties, access controls, encryption
• User accountidentity, authorization and authentication management.
• Security incident and event management
• Experience in researching new or emerging technologies and processes that may be incorporated as solutions to reoccurring security concern

Training:

• Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability life cycle management
• Advanced Security Incidence Reponse
• Systems Auditing, Database Security, Firewall Design, Intrusion detection system administration Implementation
• Security enforcement on systems level, security audit and vulnerability management
• Telecommunications, Network, wireless & Internet Security.