Head of Product and Engineering at Intelligent Innovations Co.

At Intelligent Innovations, we combine the power of the web and mobile technologies to develop powerful innovative solutions aimed at creating products that transform consumer experiences using technology and innovation whilst helping our clients achieve their business objectives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Product and Engineering

Location: Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Head of Product and Engineering will oversee all of our software development and product management activities.
• You will develop highly scalable software architectures for digital products. This includes identifying and analyzing requirements and transferring them into technical concepts.
• You will work closely together with the Engineering Manager, Product development managers and contribute actively to developing scalable products for the company.

Your key Responsibilities involves that you:

• Work directly with the engineering/technical team to understand their requirements, business drivers, strategies, and architectures, cloud adoption roadmaps, operating models, KPI, and defined product specifications in-line with recommended best-practice architectures to achieve positive business outcomes.
• Liaise closely with our product management team and provide expertise for successfully deploying scalable digital solutions.
• Outline the dependencies and skills required to deliver solutions.
• Challenges and then documents the solution details including risks, constraints, alternatives, and reason for the proposed solution.
• Understands the business background, issues, and implications of the specific solution being addressed.
• Ensures compliance between the system architecture and solution architecture.
• Specifies user/system interfaces and translates user stories into physical designs taking account of the target environment, performance requirements, and existing systems.
• Lead technical and functional team members through the design and build process.
• Work with the technology team to establish Change control & release management and software application maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with standards, processes, and policies set.
• Ensure documentation is current and relevant to ensure stakeholders remain informed.
• Provide input to business and planning forums aligning the application portfolio to meet business needs.
• Identify operational ‘problems and work with teams to resolve them through planned proactive activities, communicating to the management team regularly.

Qualifications and Experience

• B.Sc/M.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 6 years Software Architect (Nodejs/Reactjs) Experience.
• Experience working closely with Product Managers
• Experience designing, building, migrating, refactoring, or operating large-scale and impactful IT systems/workloads/applications.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Experience as a Solution Architect in a tech company will be an added advantage
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
• Good analytical skills in linking technical and commercial implications.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Experience evaluating the technical resources required.
• Strong presentational skills and ability to lead technical and business-level conversations. With experience in presenting ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language, to diverged audiences.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with a high degree of comfort dealing with the technical team, product development team.

Salary and Benefits

• N800,000 - N1,000,000 monthly.
• Very Attractive, Competitive and Negotiable.

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2022.

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