Associate Manager, Application Services at Verraki Partners

Verraki Partners (Verraki) is a business solutions company for Africa. We believe that business solutions specifically fit for purpose are necessary to solve for Africa and deliver inclusive high-quality growth for the continent’s enterprises and governments.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Manager, Application Services

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Manage staff, implementation teams, and workgroups to communicate and monitor system requirements and technical issues.
• Provide technical, financial and business expertise and guidance in the development, modification, and system integration of complex business systems and subsystems
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving and further leveraging these systems.
• Identify and navigate potential issues in order to meet deadlines and schedules
• Work with people, processes and technology workstreams to deliver client-relevant services in the Technology Consulting area.
• Manage budgets, time and quality of output on assigned projects
• Manage expectations of Client Sponsors, Champions and Stakeholders on delivery efforts
• Reviews the status reports of team members and addresses issues as appropriate
• Identify training needs and tools and work with supervisor to execute
• Lend expertise to internal teams and tasks
• Performs other related tasks assigned by Supervisor
• Have a good understanding of/be able to supervise subordinate roles

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Sciences, Management, Engineering or other courses but with relevant experience in IT
• 5 or more years post qualification relevant experience in IT
• Previous experience in a reputable consulting, leading IT company or IT function of a blue-chip company
• Master's degree will be an added advantage
• Certifications in solution area of expertise (Cloud certifications would be added advantage).
• Other technical/professional certifications e.g. ITIL, PMP, Prince 2, etc.
• Demonstrable achievements in landmark projects
• Good project management and leadership skills
• Good understanding of NEW IT technologies (e.g. such as cloud, digital and automation technologies)
• Good understanding of integration technologies

Skills / Competencies:

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good risk and Issue management skills
• Good client relationship management
• Good negotiation skills
• Anticipates client needs and proposes alternative technical solutions
• Determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and assign responsibilities
• Expertise in more than one of Core Banking Solutions, Backoffice ERP Solutions (Cloud/On premise), Customer Relationship Management, Payment Solutions, Public cloud computing platforms
• Experience within any of our target industries
• Relationship network within our target industries
• Ability to monitor/assessing performance of self, other individuals to make improvements or take corrective action
• Recognizes areas for internal improvement and develops plans for implementation.
• Good usage of MS Office tools

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.