Enterprise Architecture Manager at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Enterprise Architecture Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

• Define the application and technical architecture structure, ensuring that it meets the business requirements and performance goals.
• Define standards and guidelines for systems / solutions procurement or deployment.
• Evaluate developments in IS architecture in the local and international business environment and recommend value-adding improvements to the IS strategy.
• Lead the application and technical architecture analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that the product fulfills the requirements.
• Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements.
• Review built products / solutions and ensure the components work together to meet the objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements.
• Engage with other functional units and actively participate in IS projects relating to systems upgrade, integration or deployment.
• Manage technical progress of IS development projects to ensure compliance with or enhancement of existing architecture or design.
• Monitor the development process and ensure the application is supported in production, including back-ups, disaster recovery, system performance, and project management.
• Evaluate business process changes, identify and communicate to team members any cross-area or cross-release issues that affect other product development areas.
• Identify training and development needs for product development team members and manage related skills enhancement programmes to ensure enterprise targets are fully met.
• Review performance of individual team members and complete appraisals in accordance with the employee performance appraisal procedures and time schedules.

Supervisory Expectations:

• Coach and mentor team members.
• Manage Architecture team members to ensure conformance to standard working procedures.
• Facilitate rollout of professional Development standards.
• Provide input to company strategic plan on network and IT convergence.
• Guide and influence peers within the IS department in the adoption of appropriate frameworks.
• Manage the complexities of the interaction between the multitude of technologies and services.

Key Functional Competencies:

• Business Analysis.
• Business Performance Measurement & Management.
• Business Process Improvement.
• Computer & Information Technology Appreciation.
• Planning and Organizing.
• Performance Appraisal.
• Software Development.
• Systems Analysis.
• Systems Design & Integration.
• Telecommunication Business Savvy.
• Training Needs Identification.

Requirements
Education:

• A first degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems or a related discipline from a reputable institution.
• A Master’s degree in a related field will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years work experience of which:
• At least five years’ experience in information systems architecture.
• At least three years enterprise related to enterprise service bus and portal implementation.
• At least two years’ experience at management level.

Salary
Very attractive.

Application Closing Date
5th April, 2019.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] Any application received after this time will be automatically rejected.