JOB TITLE: Head, Information Technology
JOB LOCATION: Victoria Island, Lagos
Responsibilities
- Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
- Ensuring that technological resources meet the company’s short and long-term needs.
- Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
- Determine and define project scope and objectives
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Outline the goals for research and development.
- Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
- Making executive decisions on behalf of the company’s technological requirements.
- Acting as a mentor to team members.
- Ensure Infoware application database backups are carried out on a daily basis.
- Proactively manage IT projects overheads and use technology to seek better ways of doing things at reduced costs. Complete Projects within agreed TAT and Cost/ Zero tolerance to scope creep.
- Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of IT projects to market.
- Managing technology budgets and time frames.
- Ensure that vulnerabilities in applications are proactively detected and remediated/Full detection and remediation of all vulnerabilities.
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
- Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory
- Help departments use technology profitably.
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Build quality assurance and data protection processes
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
- Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
- Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution.
Requirements
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- Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years relevant work experience.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: July 31, 2022
Job Features
Job Category | Information Technology / ICT |