First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Head, IT Infrastructure
Ref Id: 1800002M
Location: Head Office, Lagos
Job: FBN GEN. Job Family
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Description
- Conduct feasibility studies and confirm results with business units to facilitate decision making
- Assist with the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments and budgets
- Assist in developing work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports
- Identify and anticipate risks and issues. Facilitate resolution, mitigation, and appropriate escalation
- Contribute to management of project risk and change management
- Assist with assessing inter-project dependencies and gauge the financial impact and risk of the project
- Ensure project quality standards are adhered to during project execution and delivery
- Provide performance feedback for project team members.
- Assist with measuring and reporting of value achieved and business benefits realized through projects
- Coordinate project communication between the technology and business communities
- Provide status report as required.
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a business /IT related discipline
- Masters, MBA or a recognized professional certification will be an added advantage
Experience:
- 4+ years of project management experience
- 2+ years of management experience.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Head, IT Application Solution
Ref ID: 1800002N
Location: Head Office, Lagos
Job: FBN GEN. Job Family
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Description
- Oversee the successful completion of all work assigned to the unit
- Manage expectations of the unit’s internal and external customers
- Oversee the design of technical solution including high level( entity – relationship, data flow) to low level(field structures, database schemas) design
- Direct the development of technical design that will support the development, execution and operations of the service.
- Provide strategic guidance to the development of service acceptance criteria. Propose performance levels for new service. Review and verify service requirements with users .Agree and document service acceptance criteria
- Oversee the creation of the service development plan. Review and agree with users
- Supervise the build, configuration or customization of the technical solution (technical code components and services)
- Manage automation and monitor application integration as code iteratively goes through assembly and product test
- Supervise the execution of unit testing / quality reviews through the build phase to ensure that the solution meets the agreed functional specifications
- Clearly communicate goals, organizational philosophies, and policies and procedures to the unit members
- Support BREAM in resource planning and skills management for the application solutions unit
- Manage the implementation and support of the organization’s application systems
- Direct efforts to work with BREAM to define business solutions, ensuring alignment with business strategies and priorities, as well as the target benefits expected
- Supervise the translation of change initiatives or business/user requirements into application systems delivery
- Track application systems developments through suppliers/other external sources
- Provide key inputs on application systems in the formulation of the IT strategy
- Manage hand-over/transfer of IS solutions to operational status
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to reports
- Serve as a member of the IT Programmes and Architecture governance Committee
- Identify systems improvement opportunities by analyzing best practices, technology trends
- Serve as a member of the IT Services and Supplier Relationship Committee.
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a IT related discipline
- Masters, MBA or a recognized professional certification will be an added advantage
Experience:
- 12+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering solutions
- 10+ years of management experience with 4+ years spent in senior management role
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Head, IT Programme Manager
Ref No: 1800002O
Location: Lagos
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Description
- Conduct feasibility studies and confirm results with business units to facilitate decision making
- Prioritize and approve projects
- Work with EA office to estimate the impact of new or modified services in terms of cost, capacity, contingency, infrastructure and resources
- Consult with EA and IT leadership to ensure strategic alignment of project portfolio with business strategy and objectives
- Manage the scope change process and issue identification/resolution with all stakeholders
- Identify and anticipate risks and issues. Facilitate resolution, mitigation, and appropriate escalation to senior management and across business units
- Manage project risk and change management
- Lead assessment of inter-project dependencies and gauge the financial impact and risk of the project
- Define project quality standards and ensure compliance
- Define project performance standards and provide feedback for project team members
- Monitor and communicate status to senior leadership. Communicate and incorporate feedback from customers.
- Facilitate measurement and reporting of value achieved and business benefits realized through programs and projects
- Supervise project managers responsible for delivery of the constituent workstreams within programs
- Coordinate and control business relationship managers to ensure identification and capture of business demand including analysis and prioritization of business requirements
- Work with business unit & Business Relationship Managers to prioritise the portfolio of projects
- Coordinate review of the demand pipeline and the progress of new projects with business sponsors
- Coordinate effort to translate business requirements into design specifications
- Lead effort to Identify and resolve gaps between new and existing business processes and applications
- Ensure guidelines and procedures for the development of the IT service catalogue are aligned to business needs to ensure that all business requirements are addressed
- Evaluate, authorize and monitor the release of solutions and services, based on criteria defined during business analysis
- Lead effort to review and ensure that requirements and processes meet established quality standards
- Lead the identification, assessment and communication of impacts/ risks which may arise during the development and implementation of solutions and services
- Provide key inputs on the strategic plans of the various business units and how these can be integrated into the IT strategy and initiatives roadmap
- Review performance reports to identify opportunity for improvement
- Create and deliver project status reports
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of a first degree or its equivalent in a business /IT related discipline
- Masters, MBA or a recognized professional certification will be an added advantage
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in managing relationships with internal business customers
- 6+ years of programme management experience
- 5+ years of management experience with 2+ years in a senior management role
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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