Recent Job for Head, Solutions Architecture at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer’s needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Solutions Architecture

Location: Lagos

Job Objective/ Purpose of Job

• Responsible for the development of technical designs by partnering with internal product groups and engineering teams and ensure adherence to enterprise standards.

Responsibilities
Application Design and Management:

• Designs and conducts internal team mentoring and training on best practices associated with design and architecture.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems with existing web applications and sites.
• Develop, code, install, test, debug and document web applications using appropriate editors where necessary.
• Perform periodic applications audit including Code Coverage.
• Design cloud solutions for new and existing systems.

Team Management:

• Coordinate team and subordinates to deliver projects with specific time and quality requirement.
• Effective collaboration across functional areas and teams.
• Effective communication with a variety of stakeholders (Senior Executives, Project Teams, Development Teams, and Product Owners).

Project Management:

• Provide technical vision, strategy for delivering complex project.
• Identify key system architecture components, propose and collaborate with relevant teams to build solutions that unblock deployments.
• Assist in the development of solution development strategy.
• Identify, recommend and prioritize new web features and applications.
• Provide necessary tools and guidance for complex development.
• Capacity Development and Opportunities:
• Conduct research into current and emerging web technologies and issues in support of web development.

Key Skills & Competencies Requirements
Functional/ Technical:

• Experience in effectively managing multiple technology projects simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of programming languages, including C#, PHP, Python, and JavaScript.
• Project management experience, particularly Agile Scrum.
• Knowledge of relational database development, using MySQL and/or MS SQL server.
• Knowledge of NoSQL database, like MongoDB and Elastic Search.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning tools and libraries, like Google AutoML, TensorFlow, and DialogFlow.
• Experience with TOGAF or other architecture frameworks.
• Experience in designing and implementing high transactional volume distributed system with focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
• Knowledge of web technologies and protocols.
• Knowledge of mobile application development (iOS and Android) using Flutter

Behavioural:

• High organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor, motivate and influence.
• Team player and Leadership skill.
• Honest, proactive and hardworking.
• Ability to adapt to changes.

Salary
Very attractive.


Deadline: 3pm; 15th July, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application Letter and CV to: apply@alfred-victoria.com using the “Job Title” as the subject of the mail.

Note: Any application received after the closing date and time will be automatically rejected.