Norrenberger is an Integrated Financial Services Group (Licensed & Regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) that operates a customer-focused business model offering clients a comprehensive range of financial products& services including Funds & Investment Management, Structured & Alternative Finance, SME Funding, Foreign Exchange and Business Advisory Services.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Head, Information Technology
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- The suitable candidate will be responsible for building innovative robust apps & services that minimizing cybersecurity threats and have strong operational resilience.
- The candidate shall ensure that hardware and software maintenance are carried out, and must have the ability to make recommendations about future planning and development of resources
- Develop data governance procedures working other departments to prepare, protect and analyze data assets ensuring the company meets industry best practices.
- Ensure technology practices adhere to regulatory standards, implement data privacy policies to comply with data protection regulations
- Design and implement data strategies, pipelines and analysis systems.
- Make decisions on the technological requirements of the organization
- Keep abreast and identify with the latest technology/industry trends, changes and development.
- Use current technological trends to build a strategic & forward-looking roadmap
- Own timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services and manage technology budgets.
- Database management and ownership of IT infrastructure
- Communicate the status, value and importance of data collection to executive members and staff
- Mentor team members
Duties and Responsibilities
Networking:
- Planning and implementation of additions, deletions and major modifications to the supporting infrastructure.
- Implements network security for the Company
- Oversees the administration and maintenance of the company’ infrastructure, and directs supporting staff.
- Oversees the administration of the company’ WAN.
Internal Systems:
- Oversees troubleshooting, systems backups, archiving, and disaster recovery and provides expert support when necessary.
- Works with project teams to help implement Internal Systems.
Software Developing:
- Work with team members to design innovative software programs that improve and simplify the online user experience for customers across our various subsidiaries.
- Write original code and update existing code, ensuring that all code meets program requirements.
- Perform intensive testing of all new and existing programs to ensure they are free of errors and function as intended
- Work with other departments in the company to facilitate timely execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinating with the business users/business analyst/developers as required
- Keep up to date on the newest technological innovations in the field and be ready to apply relevant innovations to our software systems.
- Engage with business heads to assist the various departments with achieving their goals through innovative application of technology.
- Optimize new and existing programs for mobile use.
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
- Ensure increased customer satisfaction, code reliability and developer productivity across software products while reducing development and maintenance cost
- Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming.
- Develop IT strategies in partnership with business units.
- Innovating on Existing products
Management:
- Initiates and implements improvements in all areas of IT responsibility.
- Serves as main point of contact on all IT-related matters for the company.
- Identifies and provides standards for gathering information for use in trend analysis and reports information to company management.
- Builds and maintains vendor relationships and manages the purchase of hardware and software products.
- Ensures that company assets are maintained responsibly.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of a Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or in the Physical Sciences but with experience in software and hardware maintenance;
- Minimum of 10+ years practical experience in software development, Networking, IT infrastructure and Security with proven success in the Fintech or Banking sector.
Skills:
- Must have knowledge of Software Development, IT Governance, networking, IT infrastructure and Security.
- Knowledge of technology trends
- Analytical Ability, Strategic thinking & Problem-solving skills.
- Effective execution of the company’ IT strategy.
- Proficiency in writing codes in Java and Angular.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Personal Drive
- Emotional Quotient’ able to take decisions on facts & figures not emotions
- Integrity and Empathy
- Analytical Ability, Strategic thinking & Problem-solving skills.
- Time Management
Deadline: 24th September, 2020.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@norrenberger.com using the “Job Title” as the subject of the email.
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