Head of Information Technology at Rossland Screening Solutions

Rossland Screening Solutions - Our client is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Information Technology

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
The Head of Information Technology will lead the company’s technology strategy, execution, and operations.

He will also:

• Manage technology services that meet operational requirements of the organization.
• Co-ordinate IT activities to ensure data availability and network services with minimal downtime.
• Provide leadership in technology portfolio for enablement and innovation.
• Coordinate and provide support to IT officers and other technicians for optimum performance.
• Deliver appropriate personnel actions and training programs to ensure high quality professional staff performance in the area(s) of oversight.
• Develop and oversee SMART goals for hardware, software, and storage.
• Identifying and eliminating security vulnerabilities with strategic solutions that increase data security.
• Provide technical leadership on a variety of highly specialized project-related activities requiring expertise in specific technical areas for core information technology systems and services.
• Drive innovation for front office or core business operations by recommending viable technologies.
• Manage a portfolio of technology projects to meet cost, scope, and schedule constraints.
• Analyze the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs.
• Develop policies for internal IT operations to drive attainment of SLAs.
• Review vendor contracts and coordinate IT purchases (hardware, software, and services) to ensure effective deployment of solutions aligned with user needs.
• Participate as a member of the IT management team in planning, problem resolution, and reviewing department performance.

Typical KPIs

• Mean Time to Repair (MTTR): to measure the average number of hours required to repair the system, application or network to full functionality following a failure, or service interruption.
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): to measure the average number of days elapsed between network, system, or application failures or outages.
• % Of overdue software requirements: percentage of overdue software requirements i.e., planned software requirements that have not been delivered in time.
• Time lag between changes and updates of documentation and training material: time lag between changes and updates of training, procedures, and documentation materials.
• % Of reported bugs that have been fixed when going live: percentage of total bugs that have been found while testing and are fixed when a new software release is going live.
• % Of application development work outsourced: percentage of application / software development work outsourced.

Requirements

• A Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or any relevant discipline.
• At least 5 - 7 years cognate experience preferably from a financial institution.
• Proficient in working with HTML, CSS, JAVA, PHP, and PYTHON.
• Expert in database management.
• Deep understanding of ethical hacking.
• Microsoft SQL certification is necessary.
• Be vast in computer hardware, repairs, inter-networking, and configuration.
• Be able to do LAN, VLAN, and WAN testing and configuration.
• Demonstrable knowledge of running server setups (MICROSOFT and LINUX), mail server, HYPER V, raid, and storage.

Application Closing Date
7th February, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.