Head of Technology at Parallel Score

Parallel Score is a product development firm that develops data and user-centric solutions by leveraging design, engineering, and innovative thinking. We are a provocative product development agency that is focused on imagining and building highly-interactive and user- driven experiences that push the limits of user design and development.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Technology

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Category: Research

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships
• Represent the technological agenda in staff meetings and drive the direction of the project
• Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet current and future needs
• Manage and optimize infrastructure assets to satisfy internal financial targets
• Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence
• Consolidate our technology platforms and create plans for each
• Track, analyze, and monitor technology performance metrics
• Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in the technology landscape
• Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation, and creativity
• Provide overall technical leadership and direction to the organization and the technology team, encouraging controlled innovation and improvement in the technology and data systems, processes, and ways of working.
• You will be required to drive the technology component of CIP’s Platform Strategy, providing direct guidance and driving the onboarding of the right team, tools, and techniques for the technology function.
• Drive change in the organization in embedding Agile and Lean techniques that work across the whole organization
• Contribute to the leadership of actively working with other senior managers and Directors on strategy development, performance management, delivering what we say we will, role-modelling, and championing our values and behaviours both internally and externally.
• Participate in one or more leadership boards as required, and keep yourself informed about wider developments internally and externally.
• Role model our values and lead the development of our culture in your team
• Represent externally in your area of expertise
• Values, encourage and empower diversity within the organization and is actively anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive.

Job Requirements

• Must have 8+ years of technical experience and business management experience
• In-depth knowledge of Solution Architecture, design and development, certification in Solution Architect is essential for this role.
• Significant knowledge of infrastructure planning and DevOps is also mandatory
• Hands-on experience with complex project management and Ability to estimate work for the project team
• Must have functioned in a similar role in a technology-led organization, or a similar startup.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Effective negotiation and vendor management skills
• Proactive problem solver
• Attention to detail.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.