Unit Head, Application Development at DevRecruit

DevRecruit - An IT recruitment firm, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Unit Head, Application Development

Location: Lagos
Department: Solutions Delivery

Job Objectives

• Manage the architecting, planning, designing, building and implementation of IT services to meet client and business needs
• Ensure committed portfolio of projects are delivered within agreed constraints
• Ensure compliance with Group policies and procedures during solution development

Supervises:

• Principal Specialist
• Application Development Senior Specialist
• Application Development Specialist
• Application Development Analyst
• Application Development

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the architecting, planning, designing, building and implementation of IT services including new development and major enhancements to existing systems
• Deliver committed portfolio of projects within agreed constraints
• Manage the solution development lifecycle for new / changed services
• Serve as point of escalation, review for key issues and decisions for all solution delivery domains
• Ensure that the tools and environment required for solution development are available and accessible
• Provide high level validation to technical design documents
• Ensure that all security designs and implementations adhere to enterprise security standards
• May contribute to budgeting activities
• Involved in the hiring and development of staff
• Responsible for the appraisal of team members

Key Performance Indicators

• Solutions delivery as per client and business needs
• Solutions delivery as per organisational standards i.e., policies, architectural standards, etc.
• Quality of business analysis
• Quality of solution design
• Cycle time
• Code stability
• Code simplicity
• Code churn
• Timely release of products and product features

Educational Qualification

• Minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related areas

Professional Qualification:

• Possession of the following certification is recommended: CBAP, MCSD, CSD, CSQA, Microsoft Azure Fundamental and Associate certificates

Desired Experience:

• 10 to 12 years of functional experience and1 – 2 years of management experience.

Competence Requirements:

• IT Solution / Service Development experience
• Experience with SDLC or any comparable solution development lifecycle
• Deep technical expertise and a good understanding of underlying business processes and systems
• High commitment to meet business needs as well as service and operational level requirements
• Good understanding of business and technology domains
• Excellent understanding of the technology stack and how the different pieces fit together
• Solution design and architecting skills
• Experience of working with multiple third-party vendors
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skill
• Communicate in well spoken English.

Application Closing Date
13th January, 2022.