Head of Technology, Growth and Innovation at Hexavia Business Consulting

Hexavian Business Club (HBC), is a community of Hexavia Masterclass alumni and other people enthusiastic about business, life and career growth. It is Nigeria’s largest and most powerful business community.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Technology, Growth and Innovation

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for a Head of Information Technology (IT), Growth and Innovation who will be accountable for defining and delivering IT strategy and capabilities across the organization including development and support, infrastructure, security and technical services.
• This role will be responsible for seeing our products implementation through to completion.
• This role will oversee the technical infrastructure, application development of databases, websites, information security, network, voice and data telecommunications, and disaster recovery functions in a reliable, process-based and proactive approach.
• This role will facilitate strategic planning and initiatives, change management, and other processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and mentoring to ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of initiative efforts and establishes clearly defined individual goals.
• Provide leadership to the IT Team (business development and sales) to include effective feedback on performance, coaching and mentoring, performance management and career development.
• Foster accountability, control and appropriate communication related to IT project management.
• Identify strategic objectives and determine specific information requirements for the IT Team.
• Review and evaluate new corporate project feasibility from a business and technical perspective based on all customer requirements and priorities.
• Continually evaluate major software/hardware systems for applicability, cost effectiveness and potential for improvements.
• Determine capital investment parameters, priorities and risks for enterprise-wide IT initiatives to maximize the return on investment.
• Study new systems technology in an effort to identify risks and advantages.
• Ensure that business continuity/disaster recovery plans are in place and tested.
• Ensure that company information assets and associated technology, applications, systems, and infrastructure are adequately protected.
• Constantly update cyber security strategy, solutions framework and policies/ procedures by leveraging new technology, threat information and industry trends.
• Work with Risk Management resources and outside consultants to ensure compliance with changing laws and applicable regulations.
• Ensure that cyber security and data protection policies and procedures are communicated to all personnel and that compliance is enforced.
• Regularly Communicate with the executive team on systems, projects, security program status, current risks, overall strategies, relevant statistics, and cyber security events.
• Develop the next level of IT team leadership ensuring high levels of success with requirements gathering, software selection, design, project management, programming, installation/ maintenance and support.
• Proactively advise the senior management team on the emerging technologies and digital trends that are relevant to the company's objectives.
• Assist and support other employees, teams and departments as necessary.
• Manage other projects/duties as assigned for the overall benefit of the organization.

Requirements

• A Degree in one of the following subjects: Computer Science, Information Technology or Information Systems.

Good technical knowledge in the following areas are also required:

• IT management
• Infrastructure and applications
• Data warehousing, architecture and networking
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and technologies
• A minimum of 5 years of IT service delivery experience
• Experience with business operations platforms.

Salary
N200,000 - N250,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
12th November, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: talktohexavia@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.