Software Architect at AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria

AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria is a foreign-owned financial institution, based in Lagos state, which offers a broad range of financial services to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and other clients in the lower income strata.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Software Architect

Location: Lagos

Main Responsibilities
System Architecture:

• Interact with our business and technology stakeholders to understand our business direction to ensure it informs our technology direction
• Establish architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing software systems
• Demonstrates critical understanding of technical architecture, data architecture, infrastructure, and IT operations
• Analyze risk and report problems in meeting system requirements.
• Provide supporting information to the Engineers to aid in the creation of a system specification.
• Assist Software Designer/Implementers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Lead the review process for software architecture documents.
• Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule.
• Participate in the system specification review process to ensure system requirements can be translated into valid software architecture
• Comply with all applicable product development processes. Perform detailed software design as well as implements and/or maintains code according to duties and responsibilities

Software Development:

• Develop architectural solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Update knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications
• Develop tactical tool in order to streamline or bring more efficiency within processes
• Give support to other Software vendors on CBS interface or 3rd parties
• Support operations teams to ensure that our business services are performing optimally.

I.T. Security:

• Ensure system integrity, availability and confidentiality of all Enterprise solutions
• Deliver enterprise architecture that ensures business continuity of bank operations at any time.
• Business Knowledge Management:
• Be a key player in business process re-engineering within the department
• Maintain and develop knowledge of products, and processes of all IT assets
• Provide information about the products and processes in the bank
• Design innovative solutions to real market problems.
• Work closely with product and marketing managers, user interaction designers, and other software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones

Requirements

• Minimum educational qualification: B.Sc. / HND in Computer Science, Software engineering or related discipline with cognate experience
• Minimum of five years of professional experience in a similar role and operational environment
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving database problems including database integrity, performance, blocking and deadlocking, replication, connectivity, security etc.
• DB Administration experience with MS SQL Server
• Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server including Clustering, Database Mirroring, Replication, and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• Experience in web development, mobile development and object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of Web Interfaces and PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, ASP.NET, Java, C#, SOA
• Knowledge of Software Development Process, Software Requirements, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software/System Documentation, Software Testing
• Must be organized, have an eye for detail, and be able to put ideas into a tangible form
• Audit/approve developers' change requests to existing tables, stored procedures, indices, constraints, triggers and views, as well as audit/approve new entries
• Knowledge of 3rd party DBA tools and applications (DB Admin)
• Experience supporting developers to troubleshoot and write effective SQL
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills and process-oriented approach to work
• A certified ISAQB would be an asset.

Application Closing Date
23rd January, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online