United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa’s leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria, UBA has grown to become a Pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Chief Information Officer, Africa
Reference #: LAG002
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos State
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Functions: Information Technology
Industries: IT – Information Technology
Introduction
The Chief information offer (Africa)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 practises
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 scalable and robust solutions in large web application deployments
Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply
Job Title: Team Lead, IT Value Management
Reference No: LAG001
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Functions: Information Technology
Industries: IT – Information Technology
Introduction
- Responsible for the financial information associated with Information Technology delivery
Key Responsibilities
Cost & Budget Management:
- Manage the IT-related financial activities such as Accruals and Work-In-Progress
- Prepare a budget reflecting the investment priorities supporting strategic objectives based on the portfolio of IT-enabled programmes and IT services
- Analyze variances between forecasts and actual costs, and report using the enterprise’s financial measurement systems
- Implement a cost management process comparing actual costs to budgets
- Consult stakeholders to identify and control the total costs within the context of the IT strategic and tactical plans, and initiate corrective action where needed
Business Value:
- Evaluate the portfolio of IT-enabled investments, services and assets to determine the likelihood of achieving enterprise objectives and delivering value at a reasonable cost
- Monitor the key goals and metrics to determine the extent to which the business is generating the expected value and benefits to the enterprise from IT-enabled investments and services
- Identify significant issues and recommend corrective actions
Cost Optimization:
- Ensure the adoption of resource management principles to enable optimal use of IT resources throughout their full economic life cycle
- Continually examine and make recommendation on the current and future need for IT-related resources, to meet the needs of the enterprise in an optimal manner
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience, out of which 3 years must have been spent in Finance or a similar role in IT
Technical:
- Business Analysis or Analytics
- Critical Thinking
- Creative Problem Solving
- Good interpersonal and communications skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- COBIT 5
- ISO/IEC 20000
- ITIL V3
General:
- Finance or Accounting or Budget principles
- Good understanding of industry best practices
- Good understanding of policies, processes and procedures
- Resource management
Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply
Application Deadline 30th November, 2018.
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