Vacancies at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Job Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and talented IT Project Manager to join a dynamic project team. The resource shall be responsible for:

• Overseeing and managing the Project Based Services engagements.
• Candidate must be able to proactively work to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including project timeline, client requirements, and critical dependencies.
• Candidate must possess strong financial skills with strong attention to detail.

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility

• Required to oversee projects. This role originates in the Plan Phase and extend through the Deployment Phase of the Project Management Governance Process; Oversight of Project from Concept Phase through Deployment via other Project Managers
• Decompose projects into time-phased elements and prioritize key deliverables; Assumes full accountability for overall success of a project through deployment.
• Define project goals and objectives; Identify customer requirements; Identify resource requirements; Develop project budget; Track incurred and projected expenses against program plan and report to management.
• Prioritize resource allocation; Assist with resource negotiation; Manage cost/schedule/resource variances
• Produce project documentation; Establish/maintain project information system; Monitor and control project
• Develop and be accountable for the overall project plan; Ensure resources are committed and engaged for all project phases
• Primary function of role is translating customer IT services requirements into customer solutions/contracts that secure customer loyalty, drive acceptable profit margins and are delivered with fidelity
• Role requires strong project management skills and leadership in a dynamic and deadline driven environment
• Required to qualify and develop a solution that is mutually acceptable to the client and the company
• Liaise closely with pricing analysts to ensure operational commitments are translated accurately into cost assumptions
• Provide sales team with technical and service presales support; Prepare and deliver services presentations to current and prospective customers
• Negotiates directly with customers and contractors
• Certifications and proficiency in Technology and Telecom fields of knowledge. Cisco wireless certifications are an asset.
• Ensures the program meet established time, cost, technical and customer objectives

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience in customer facing, technology deployment and support environment
• 5+ years in Project Management and strong experience in working with a Financial Management & Institution
• Bachelor’s degree in any field (Minimum 2:2)
• Ability to work under tight timelines in a demanding environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work closely with the Business Leaders, IT Partners, and peers for the project, the customer and the development/implementation team within a Project Team environment – both internal to NCR and external with the customer.
• Interface with multiple business functions and organizations, as well as multiple specialists, in defining, producing and managing plans for successful project delivery
• Ability to lead/coordinate a cross-functional team, ensuring that projects meet defined scope, time, cost and quality constraints
• Ability to deal with organizational influences, ambiguity and continuous change.

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We require an application developer with hands-on experience in planning, developing and management of applications.
• The developer will also be responsible for supporting through administration and patch development (where necessary) of some existing in house developed applications.
• Ensuring delivery of projects according to agreed timelines, excellent user experience and 99% application/service availability are some of the critical requirements of this role.

Specifically, the developer role will include:

• Gathering and developing user specifications requirement documents for every project initiative.
• Developing project implementation plans for each initiative.
• Application development, deployment and support.
• Admin and user guides/manual development.
• User training and solution handover.

Keys Skills & Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or any other technology disciplines (e.g. Engineering, Physics)
• 3 – 4 years practical experience in software application development.
• Expertise and hands-on experience with web applications and programming languages/technologies such as Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, APIs etc.
• Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) as it applies to Python and PHP.
• Strong knowledge of Django framework is essential.
• Knowledge of relational database (Oracle & MySQL).
• Strong experience in frontend development (UI & UX) using HTML and CSS, cross-browser compatibility and general web functions and standards.
• Functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services (REST and SOAP) for API development.
• Knowledge of basic operations of Linux server.
• Experience in using GIT Hub is an added advantage.
• Must know how to use an FTP client such as filezilla, coreftp e.t.c.
• Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to software and the web in general.
• Good problem solving and logical thinking skills (ability to transform business requirements into programmable solutions).
• Good Communication skills.
• Experience in planning and delivering software platforms used across multiple organizational units (multitenancy).

Job Title: Flexcube Administrator

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objective

• This role is responsible for developing core banking requirements for use in an Oracle FLEXCUBE environment.
• The primary responsibility is to understand business needs and convert them to written IT requirements for development, testing, and implementation.

Job Function

• Demonstrate an understanding of banking environment to bridge business requirements and IT solutions.
• Know capabilities and functionalities of an Oracle FLEXCUBE solution
• Extract detailed, pertinent, and relevant information from business users, and know when the complete financial requirements have been gathered.
• Identify data requirements to support desired functional requirements. Provide high level design for integrating and utilizing data.
• Create Test Scripts for use in system and UAT testing
• Understand dependencies between requirements and determine if they impact the sequence of development and implementation.

Role Requirements

• 5+ years in the banking industry with good understanding of banking business practices
• Implementation of, or extensive use of, Oracle FLEXCUBE application
• Ability to design integration of financial data from multiple data sources
• 10+ years of extensive experience as a business analyst with focus on process improvement, data quality, and systems life cycle methodologies
• Requirements development and requirements traceability techniques; design of test cases
• Excellent communication skills; polished customer service and organizational skills; technical aptitude with a demonstrated appreciation for customer and client.

Educational Qualifications

• First degree or Master’s in Computer Science or Engineering field
• 5 years experience in working with a Banking Organisation.

Experience:

• At least 5 – 8 years experience in working with flexcube application.

Important to have:

• Have experience and knowledge in commercial lending or commercial loans in banks. understanding the functions such as guarantee, commitment, credit approval, and syndication loan are very important
• Understand regulatory reporting in banks
• Know FlexCube UBS.