Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place.
The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Software Engineering (Tech234)
Location: Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria
Experience: Mid – Senior Level
Job Information
- This position offers an excellent opportunity to provide leadership in architecture, development, deployment and management of industry leading solutions and related products.
- The work involves leading a team of software engineers and infrastructure officers in architecture, design and development of new solutions or new functionality for existing solutions.
- The work also requires a domain knowledge of how to manage the infrastructures used for the deployment of the solution.
- Additionally, it involves interacting with business units, management and sometimes customers on a regular basis to understand their problems and provide long lasting stable software solutions to the problems.
Desired Skills and Experience
- 6+ years of experience as both a hands-on architect and a software engineer.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering (further education is a plus).
- Proven managerial skills with experience in managing medium to large size teams.
- At least 5 years of experience in hands-on Java or .NET programming.
- Strong Knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS and jQuery.
- Deep understanding of a wide range of the latest technologies and architectural approaches.
- Proficiency in Agile, SDLC, or SLA.
- Proficiency in SOA, EDA, and design patterns.
- Proficiency in Linux/Windows Server operating systems.
- Proficiency in Relational Database Management Systems (Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL).
- Understanding of Webservers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS).
- Experience with Cloud architecture (cloud hosting, AWS, Azure).
- Leadership experience in creating, deploying, and iterating excellent software.
- Team based thinking in creating high quality software.
- Quick learner that is able to quickly gain deep product knowledge and actively contribution to production issues irrespective of the development language.
- Proficiency in TDD is desired but not mandatory.
Role and Responsibilities
- Work on architecture, design and coding using agile and iterative software development methodologies.
- Leads the production of technical specification for custom development and systems integration requirements.
- Interact with business units to understand the issues and tackle difficult problems.
- Attend customer and business meetings to better understand their requirements and ensure delivery of new requirements on time and within budget goals.
- Break complex problems down into actionable solutions which can be completed by developers in 1 or 2 code sprints and act as guide for developers to help them resolve those tasks.
- Provide effort estimates and inputs into delivery schedule for release planning and project management.
- Identify root causes of issues and come up with design and approach to fix the issues.
- Hands on work to resolve time-critical customer issues as per assigned priority.
- Interact with team members on a regular basis and mentor team members.
- Responsible for the development of a training plan for team members to acquire the requisite skills for achieving solution development and management goals.
- Document and present development plans to management or project management office and answer any queries.
- Continually research new technologies and introduce innovative solutions, products and service offerings.
- Enhance, document and maintain process and procedures for the team.
- Ensure ruthless commitment to impeccable code quality.
- Define coding standards and provide guidelines to developers.
- Maintain code repositories and ensure consistency in work submitted by developers
- Ensure proper code documentation and periodic code reviews.
- Create new version releases and produce whitepapers and tech-notes for new functionality.
- Provide leadership and strategy in the deployment, management and monitoring of infrastructure used for solutions deployment.
- Increasing efficiency in the workplace by continuously automating parts of the software engineering process.
- Ensure all code is committed, and that the team exhibits all best practices, including holding regular code review and scrum meetings.
- Ensure business continuity and adequate disaster recovery processes.
- Generate and submit departmental reports as at when due.
Addition Skills
- Outstanding leadership skills.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Highly organized and pay extraordinary attention to detail.
- Must have the ability to act quickly and pragmatically under pressure to priorities and resolve issues.
- Must display willingness to work longer hours to achieve organizational goals.
- Enthusiasm and high level of motivation.
- Good ethics and high level of integrity.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s and cover letter to:tech234jobs@gmail.com
Or
Click here to apply online
Deadline: 25th May, 2016.
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