CareerXpress is one of Africa’s biggest social enterprise with a core objective of reducing unemployment in West Africa using digital marketing skills. We partner with organizations with the aim of bridging employability gap in the workplace.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: IT Business Analyst
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- IT Business Analyst will be responsible for enhancing the quality of IT products and services, analyzing data to inform business decisions and finding technological solutions to business needs, among other duties.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaboration with stakeholders (Business owners, Architects, Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, and others) in the creation of solutions for complex, global business problems.
- Building a strong partnership with business owners and contribute to the definition and evolution of business strategy, goals, roadmap, and objectives.
- Deep understanding of business needs and objectives is important. Working with architects and leads in evolving technology roadmaps for applications and ensuring alignment with business and enterprise strategies.
- Ensuring all stakeholders have a common understanding of all solution requirements.
- Participation in solution design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
- End to end verification of new solutions to ensure they meet and exceed business expectations.
- Identifying proper service metrics and measurements for ensuring performance against Service
Level Agreements:
- Applying creative thinking/approach to determine solutions that further Business Goals and
- align with Technology Strategies.
- Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for a business
- Defining business requirements and validating with relevant stakeholders
Role Qualifications
- Academic/Professional: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Business Analysis certification (e.g. CBAP) is preferred.
- Work experience: Minimum 5 – 7 years overall work experience of which five (5) years should be in an advanced Business Analysis function.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Analytical mindset.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good negotiation skills
- Leadership and management skills
- An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques and computing systems
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
And
Send their CV to: tolu@careerxpress.co with “IT Business Analyst” as the subject.
Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: Lagos
Job Profile
- We are recruiting for a Solution Architect for a financial institution located in Lagos.
- The ideal candidate is to design or modify systems architecture to meet certain business needs. Successful candidates will be responsible to test, integrate, and program software systems to ensure that specific business issues are solved.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and integrating information systems to meet the company’s needs.
- Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve
- Resolving technical problems as they arise.
- Providing supervision and guidance to development teams.
- Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
- Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
- Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
- Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.
- Work closely with Information Technology professionals within the company to ensure hardware is available for projects and working properly
- Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates
- Propose and establish framework for necessary contributions from various departments
- Account for possible project challenges on constraints including, risks, time, resources and scope
- Work closely with project management teams to successfully monitor progress of initiatives
- Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions
- Define clear goals for all aspects of a project and manage their proper execution.
Role Qualification
- Academic/Professional: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Work experience: Minimum 6 -8 years overall work experience of which five (4) years should be experience in software solution architecture.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design.
- Previous project management experience is advantageous.
- In-depth understanding of coding languages
- Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases.
- Efficient communication skills.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills.
- Positive outlook in meeting challenges and working to a high level
- Advanced understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
- Professional experience working with and analyzing computer hardware and software
- Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure.
Deadline: 15th May, 2020.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
And
Send their CV to: tolu@careerxpress.co using the “Job Title” as the subject of the email.
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