Head of Technology

Job Description : TECHNOLOGY HEAD NIGERIA · Plan and manage the overall project deliverables, issues, risk, plans and governance · Hands-on project management for owned deliverables including running the daily stand- up with engineering team, weekly meeting with relevant stakeholders, developing and publishing weekly status reports and managing Risks. · Leading project team to ensure successful delivery of agreed scope on schedule & within budget. · Experience in immigration technologies like biometric matching, facial recognition, OCR etc · Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, .NET web framework and Proficient in C# and/or VB.NET with a good knowledge of their ecosystems. · .NET applications using (the focus is on frontend, backend, and in writing RESTful API) · Gaining a thorough knowledge of the projects being undertaken in terms of scope, functionality, risk & issues, timelines and cost. · Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server, web application frameworks and code versioning tools such as GIT, Mercurial before. · Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests. · Managing the test and build environments associated with project workstreams and components. · Co-ordinating across multiple system groups and ensuring all impacted parties are co- ordinated and deliver to a common project goal. · Experience in Data and Cloud - like on AWS Solution architecture, familiarity with Data components like Data quality and APIs, typical operation data and analytical data considerations. · Help publish and provide Governance of Platform Standards across domain teams, including but not limited to end-of-life governance, Infrastructure upgrades, Engineering best practices etc. · Your technical expertise may be called upon by our Business Development team to provide support in closing deals with prospective customers and assisting our marketing team with technical content generation. · As a services organization looking to grow, our most significant asset is our people. · You will have a crucial role to play as a hiring manager for openings in your practice organization and occasionally as an interviewer for openings outside of your direct organization. · Having the ability to intuitively identify talent and potential is an advantage. Desired Candidate Profile • B.E./ B. Tech in CSE / IT from any reputed engineering Institute. • Minimum of 15+ years of IT experience with proven project management. • Relationship Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with customers and partners, to articulate and transfer relationship needs/requirements into actionable tasks and output. • Teamwork and collaboration: Participate in and promotes co-operative working relationships across organizations and matrix environments including knowledge sharing, partnership in achieving solutions and productive conflict management. • Leadership: Experience of managing key stakeholders at executive leadership level. Fostering entrepreneurial spirit and a culture of high performance and delivery excellence. • Drive for results: Personal ownership and accountability for delivering against commitments. Monitoring performance against plans and resetting direction as necessary.

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