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 Business Analyst
Ref Id: 1900004J
Location: Head Office, Lagos
Job: FBN GEN. Job Family
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Manager Grade Range – To : Principal Manager
Description
- Line management and personal development responsibilities for BA resource team.
- Work with the Technical Account Managers in resource allocation for the projects in flight and in the future pipeline.
- Provide guidance and direction in capturing the business requirements, stakeholder requirements, solution requirements, business process flow.
- Provide guidance and direction in the creation of required project documentation by either the project framework or the PM.
- Facilitate in the production and agreement of the Solution Design; incorporating the Business, IT, Technical and external vendor’s input.
- Ensure that the knowledge base is transitioned from the projects team into the business; both IT and business users.
- Identify and have a good working relationship with all stakeholders and business users involved within any project implementation.
- Ensure required transition requirement such as training for any project is well documented and planned for
- Support and coach team members through the Bank’s Business Analysis standards and processes.
- Supporting the PM with the quality gate processes to ensure that deliverables and the project stays on track and to budget.
- Identification and management of any risk or issues which may be noted during the project’s life span
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:
- 10+ years of experience in managing relationships with internal business customers
- 6+ years of program management and business analysis experience
- 5+ years of management experience with 2+ years in a senior management role
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior IT Business Analyst
Ref No: 1900004K
Location: Lagos
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Banking Officer Grade Range – To : Assistant Manager
Description
- Produce application solution design translated from high-level product/user requirements
- Analyse business problems thoroughly using structured methods, identifying opportunities for change and improvement and their potential implications.
- Seeks/obtains specialist advice on aspects of the design and area architecture alignment.
- Communicates and negotiates with all relevant stakeholders (both Business and IT) to ensure a balance of usability and fit with architecture.
- Communicate information relating to business analysis activities to all relevant stakeholders.
- Works with process owners to understand and improve business processes, ensuring that opportunities for simplification and removal of waste are fully exploited, drawing on the support of process and change specialists where needed.
- Gather, document and verify information relating to business process design and improvement assignments.
- Interprets information resulting from business process design and improvement assignments.
- Carry out business process design and improvement assignments.
- Model business processes and functions.
- Analyse business models to identify problems and opportunities for business process improvements.
- Formally captures requirements and cost justifies these by tracing them to business objectives and business benefits.
- Manages requirements through the project life cycle.
- Work with the EA team to lead design sessions and document functional gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Coordinate and drive issue resolution with cross-functional teams during the design and development process
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:
- 6+ years of business analysis experience
- 4+ years of experience of leading a team of business analyst
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Analyst – Process Automation (Oracle Ebs Specialist)
Job ref: 1900004L
Location: Lagos
Shift: Standard
Schedule: Regular
Job Type: Full-time
Organization: Technology and Services
Descriptions
- Assist in planning, coordinating and supervising all activities related to the design, development and implementation of the systems and software applications
- Assist development lead in all activities with respect to application development & management operations and support
- Contribute to planning the introduction of new application systems
- Develop high-level designs of systems
- Develop prototypes (to improve envisioning and communication) and proof-of-concept systems (to test technology) to validate potential solutions
- Perform coding duties according to the functional and technical specifications in order to solve a business problem
- Actively participate in program unit testing, integration and system testing to ensure they meet quality standards
- Ensure that developed solutions are peer reviewed and formally documented
- Assist in maintaining, supporting and upgrading existing IT systems and applications
- Design, code, test, and document web application software
- Participate in the customisation of application packages
- Ensure that solutions meet requirements outlined in the design documentation
- Review technical constraints and performance issues of business intelligence and integration solutions
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to 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:
- 6+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering solutions
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Analyst, Corebanking Application Development
Ref Id: 1900004N
Location: Head Office, Lagos
Job: IT Tech, SEC & OPS
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Executive Trainee Grade Range – To : Assistant Banking Officer
Description
- Assist in planning, coordinating and supervising all activities related to the design, development and implementation of the systems and software applications on the Finacle core-banking platform
- Assist in developing integration services using Finacle Integrator as interface between 3rd party applications and the core-banking platform
- Assist development Team Lead in all activities with respect to application development & management operations and support on the Finacle core-banking platform.
- Contribute to planning the introduction of new application systems and automation of scripts on Unix platform
- Assist in developing prototypes (to improve envisioning and communication) and proof-of-concept systems (to test technology) to validate potential solutions
- Design technical solution including high level( entity – relationship, data flow) to low level(field structures, database schemas) design on Oracle database platform.
- Develop technical design that will support the development, execution and operations of the service.
- Assist in developing service acceptance criteria. Propose performance levels for new service. Review and verify service requirements with users .Agree and document service acceptance criteria
- Create the service development plan. Review and agree with users
- Build, configure or customise the technical solution (technical code components and services)
- Ensure compilation of code and components into application.
- Manage automation and monitor application integration as code iteratively goes through assembly and product test
- Implement a controlled process that extracts software artifacts from the code repository, transforms it to an integrated product, and returns the result to the code repository
- Actively participate in unit testing / quality reviews through the build phase to ensure that the solution meets the agreed functional specifications
- Assist in maintaining, supporting and upgrading existing IT systems and applications
- Participate in the customisation of application packages
- Ensure that solutions meet requirements outlined in the design documentation
- Ensure accuracy and timeliness in delivery of 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:
- 2+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering solutions on Finacle Core Banking application platform including Finacle Scripting language and Form design
- Experience on PL/SQL, SQL database programming language
- Familiarity with JavaScript, CSS and HTML and XML
- Familiarity with Java and Soap Web services
- Deep Familiarity with ISO-8583 and Connect 24 and Finacle Integrator Interface
- Working knowledge of Finacle Integrator and its configuration.
- Familiarity with IBM AIX Unix shell scripting and its technologies.
- Familiarity with IBM WebSphere hosted solutions.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Application Developer (.Net Development)
Ref No: 1900004M
Location: Lagos
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Manager Grade Range – To : Principal Manager
Description
- Assist in planning, coordinating and supervising all activities related to the design, development and implementation of the systems and software applications
- Assist development lead in all activities with respect to application development & management operations and support
- Contribute to planning the introduction of new application systems
- Develop high-level designs of systems
- Develop prototypes (to improve envisioning and communication) and proof-of-concept systems (to test technology) to validate potential solutions
- Perform coding duties according to the functional and technical specifications in order to solve a business problem
- Actively participate in program unit testing, integration and system testing to ensure they meet quality standards
- Ensure that developed solutions are peer reviewed and formally documented
- Assist in maintaining, supporting and upgrading existing IT systems and applications
- Design, code, test, and document web application software
- Participate in the customisation of application packages
- Ensure that solutions meet requirements outlined in the design documentation
- Review technical constraints and performance issues of business intelligence and integration solutions
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to 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:
- 7+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering solutions
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Head, Document MGT
Ref No: 19000047
Location: Lagos
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Manager Grade Range – To : Principal Manager
Description
- Develop and implement Document and Records Management Standards, Policies, Procedures for First Bank and subsidiaries
- Develop and implement a Document & Records management governance structure and Terms of Reference.
- Ensure development of a robust framework for electronic records and content management, and implement the framework
- Develop and implement record keeping and records retention plans for the bank.
- Ensure adequate oversight of vendors in compliance with the bank’s vendor management policies
- Oversee the Archive and Records management teams to provide a high-quality customer-focused and continually improving records and archives management service to the Bank.
- Define and ensure compliance with facility/ maintenance, access control and safety standards for each archive and document control centre
- Provide support, training, or direct technical assistance services in document, records information management, and archives administration to First Bank and subsidiaries
- Collect and provide adequate storage of Bank Artifact and Legacy items
Qualifications
- Degree/ other academic qualification in Library, Archival & Information Sciences, with strong Information Systems knowledge/experience.
- Must have a minimum 6 years cognate experience
- Ability to think strategically and innovatively, including a demonstrable capacity to proactively identify and respond to relevant records management issues of both long-term and immediate importance to the Bank
- Capacity to formulate and offer clear and practical advice on policy issues relating to document & records mgt.
- Broad/deep knowledge and understanding of all aspects of document & records legislation, frameworks & policy.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to develop effective relationships with staff/external stakeholders, and a customer focused approach to service delivery.
- Very high levels of oral and written expression, and IT literacy, and the ability to work under considerable pressure and to tight deadlines.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Development Chapter Lead (Devops)
Ref No: 1900004H
Location: Lagos
Organization: Technology and Services
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Job Type: Full-time
Grade Range – From : Senior Manager Grade Range – To : Assistant General Manager
Description
- Oversee the successful completion of all work assigned to the unit
- Manage expectations of the unit’s internal and external customers
- 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
- Support the articulation of user requirements in the context of business objectives through establishing and maintaining dialogue with users
- 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
- Continually liaise with other IT units and business users to: understand business requirements for business applications, identify and evaluate the technical options for satisfying business requirements based on functionality, understand quality requirements, manage and report cost, etc.
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to reports
- Identify systems improvement opportunities by analysing best practices, technology trends
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:
- 12+ years of experience in designing, developing and delivering solutions
- 10+ years of management experience with 4+ years spent in senior management role
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Testing Chapter Lead
Job ref: 1900004I
Location: Lagos
Shift: Standard
Schedule: Regular
Job Type: Full-time
Organization: Technology and Services
Descriptions
- Establish and maintain IT Quality Assurance Framework
- Ensure quality standards, test procedures and methodology are adhered to
- Coordinate the evaluation and testing of software and infrastructure to ensure that they function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines
- Responsible for all test phases – unit, system, integration and functional testing & acceptance
- Lead effort to test and analyze each component/phase of the systems development life cycle including the project requirements, design and programs
- Work with project managers to plan, manage and track quality test plan
- Ensure that all required testing deliverables are created including testing approach, testing scenarios, conditions and expected results, test scripts and testing control sheets
- Execute formal review cycles including informal review, formal review, testing sign-off and quality assurance review
- Engage all relevant stakeholders and secure the requisite sign-offs
- Manage test environment and test data
- Monitor performance after implementation to ensure compliance and efficiency of operation
- Act as an independent monitor on quality matters
- Recommend solutions for quality and compliance, as well as determine and coordinate improvements to areas of operations
- Coordinate review of supplier/project deliverables to ensure compliance to quality standards and conformance to business requirements
- Communicate the results of quality audits to IT management, explaining the impact on IT and the business
- Review and approve approach to project/software version control
- Work with Process and Methods to define KPIs for evaluating effectiveness of quality management
- Review and approve quality policy and procedure documents
- Implement quality awareness to ensure quality principles are disseminated throughout IT organization
- Review continuous process improvement opportunities, and coordinate the implementation of corrective and preventive action (CAPA) for deficiencies encountered
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to reports
- Coordinate quality audits
- Serve as a member of the IT Services and Supplier Relationship Committee
- Establish and maintain IT Quality Assurance Framework
- Ensure quality standards, test procedures and methodology are adhered to
- Coordinate the evaluation and testing of software and infrastructure to ensure that they function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines
- Responsible for all test phases – unit, system, integration and functional testing & acceptance
- Lead effort to test and analyze each component/phase of the systems development life cycle including the project requirements, design and programs
- Work with project managers to plan, manage and track quality test plan
- Ensure that all required testing deliverables are created including testing approach, testing scenarios, conditions and expected results, test scripts and testing control sheets
- Execute formal review cycles including informal review, formal review, testing sign-off and quality assurance review
- Engage all relevant stakeholders and secure the requisite sign-offs
- Manage test environment and test data
- Monitor performance after implementation to ensure compliance and efficiency of operation
- Act as an independent monitor on quality matters
- Recommend solutions for quality and compliance, as well as determine and coordinate improvements to areas of operations
- Coordinate review of supplier/project deliverables to ensure compliance to quality standards and conformance to business requirements
- Communicate the results of quality audits to IT management, explaining the impact on IT and the business
- Review and approve approach to project/software version control
- Work with Process and Methods to define KPIs for evaluating effectiveness of quality management
- Review and approve quality policy and procedure documents
- Implement quality awareness to ensure quality principles are disseminated throughout IT organization
- Review continuous process improvement opportunities, and coordinate the implementation of corrective and preventive action (CAPA) for deficiencies encountered
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to reports
- Coordinate quality audits
- Serve as a member of the IT Services and Supplier Relationship Committee
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:
- 10+ years of experience in IT quality management and testing
- 6+ years of management experience with at least 3 years in senior management role
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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