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  • Posted: Nov 12, 2018
    Deadline: Nov 17, 2018
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    UBA’s has more than 65 years of providing uninterrupted banking operations dating back to 1948 when the British and French Bank Limited ("BFB”) commenced business in Nigeria. BFB was a subsidiary of Banque Nationale de Crédit (BNCI), Paris, which transformed its London branch into a separate subsidiary called the British and French B...
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    Regional Chief Information Officer (RCIO)

    Reference #: LAG002
    Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
    Contract Type: Permanent
    Job Functions: Banking,Information Technology
    Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment,IT - Information Technology

    Introduction

    The group has vacancies for Regional Chief Information Officer in the following regions;

    • CEMAC
    • East Africa

    The Regional Chief information Officer is responsible for:

    • Aligning the regional IT objectives and programs to the company’s objectives and strategies while coordinating Information Technology and Information Systems across the region.
    • All technology solution delivery (Internal/vendor/off-the-shelf solutions) and enhancements across the region.
    • Managing internal and external application development & deployment in line with best practices.   

    Key Responsibilities
    Technical Excellence:

    • Architecture:
      • Possess a good knowledge of design patterns, solution/service oriented architecture, API management and micro-services architecture.
    • Frameworks, languages and environments:
      • Possesses a good knowledge of diverse development domains - languages, frameworks (ORM, Entity, Hibernate), utilities, development environments.
      • Possess a good knowledge of Continuous integration and Continuous deployment
      • Good knowledge of solution risk assessment, security considerations, authentication and authorization best practices.
      • Good knowledge of agile development best practices
    • Technology Management:
      • Good knowledge of project management, work breakdown structure, execution, reporting and project governance.
      • Develops, recommends and implements long-term and short-term technology plans, budgets and programs that support and align with the strategic objectives of the region and the goals of the business lines, while maximizing the mix of in-house versus outsourced solutions and vendors

    People Management:

    • Drive interview and selection process and recommend suitably qualified candidates for consideration and final appointment by the authorised official
    • Drive good work culture, team responsiveness and healthy work balance
    • Facilitate team education & knowledge transfer by training and knowledge sharing session
    • Build team structure to aid a systematic relief process and business continuity.
    • Imbibe emotional intelligence skills and adequately apply where necessary

    Manage Development Process:

    • Develop and implement IT standards and procedures to aid in the development of high quality software
    • Ensure that all members within the region understand and follow existing IT standards.

    Innovation:

    • Must be on top of technology stack and learn the latest developments and techniques, as well as broader industry-wide trends
    • Drive and sponsor innovation in the team work
    • Build team spirit and desire to experiment and try new things and unconventional solutions.
    • Build creative solutions adopting cutting edge technologies. Must be forward thinking and daring

    Support Troubleshooting efforts in production systems:

    • Manage and drive third-level support with in country teams
    • Provide support to third parties on solution on boarding and management

    Requirements, Qualifications and Experience
    Education Requirements:

    • First degree in Computer science or Engineering or other related fields
    • Masters’ Degree or IT professional qualification will be an advantage

    Experience:

    • Minimum of 10 years’ experience, out of which 5 years must have been spent in a managerial role
    • Work related experience must consist of operations and information systems management experience in the financial services industry

    General:

    • Banking products/services
    • Object-oriented programming languages e.g. Java, .NET etc.
    • Technologies that can drive banking operations
    • Finacle Technologies
    • Experience in designing and building scaleable and robust solutions in large web application deployments

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    Regional Project Delivery & Support Manager

    • Job Type
    • Qualification
    • Experience 6 years
    • Location Lagos
    • Job Field Banking 

    Reference No: LAG003
    Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
    Contract Type: Permanent
    Job Functions: Banking
    Industries: Banking / Finance & Investment

    Introduction

    • This role involves working collaboratively with the Business Units, Product Teams and IT organization to define Product requirements that deliver key features and capabilities supporting business strategy across channels.
    • In addition, it involves providing effective support to the region in managing the infrastructure and systems that support customer experience across channels. We have vacancies in our regional offices in: Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal.

    Key Responsibilities
    Product Development:

    • Collate all product development requirements in Online Banking Channels, POS, ATM /Cards Products for the Countries in the region.
    • Translate the strategic and tactical business needs into functional requirements to develop user interfaces and work flows and resolve any conflicts with requirements between Product, Business unit and technology.
    • Maintain a strong understanding of business processes, strategies, and data needs as well as IT capabilities and capacity, while filtering and prioritizing requests with assistance from product manager
    • Facilitate meetings of cross-functional team members to elicit user needs and potential impact on the business and Customers. Work with various teams in IT, Digital Banking, Operations to identify resources that will be required for delivery of such requirements and project.
    • Drive product development from conceptualization through launch – creating actionable plans, work streams and tactics, and execute on those in support of new product launches. Work with product managers to obtain approvals for product delivery Partner with the Product Managers in the Region to ensure the team understands, contributes to, and supports the Customer Needs, Product Vision, goals and priorities.
    • Maintain project management approach to product delivery and provide regular updates to project managers for Superior Execution.
    • Coordinate all phases of product development and ensure stakeholders participation.
    • Develop and maintain strong relationships, and keep Product and Business units informed and engaged throughout the entire project lifecycle.

    Technical Support & Compliance:

    • Coordinate with IT Teams and Vendor resources in creating and reviewing system requests, planning projects and developing system specifications for new projects or for maintenance to existing solutions,
    • Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality and ensure complete adherence to Product roll out process end to end for countries in the region for superior customer experience.
    • Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks.
    • Focus on UI and UX to define good outcomes for qualitative testing, ensuring the right experience for a diverse range of customers.
    • Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility, ensuring product support and implementation stays aligned with organization objectives.
    • Ensure effective 24/7 Support to all the channels and systems and effective management of third party interfaces for 100% uptime across the region.
    • Provide Robust Contingency Architecture and infrastructure to support 100% Uptime of all Systems.

    Requirements, Education and Education
    Education Requirements:

    • First degree in Computer science or Engineering or other related fields
    • MBA/ Master’s Degree or a relevant professional qualification

    Experience:

    • Minimum of 6 years with at least 4 years banking experience and at least 3 years in a similar role

    General:

    • In-depth knowledge of the business environment and Digital Banking products
    • Project Management
    • Detailed working knowledge of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
    • Financial analysis
    • Regulatory and legal knowledge

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