Associate Manager, Tech Solutions at Verraki Africa

Verraki is a proudly African company partnering with enterprises and governments to accelerate the development and transformation of Africa by providing business solutions designed for Africa. We build and implement technology solutions for seemingly intractable challenges, provide advisory services to drive the capacity and motivation for change, and curate innovative ventures to unlock new sources of growth across our continent.

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, Tech Solutions

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• As a Technology Solutions Leader, you know what it takes to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions by combining digital technologies with what works across the world’s leading businesses, you use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast—the first time.
• Apply a variety of systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to the development, operation, and maintenance of software based on defined frameworks and methodologies with the purpose of improving reliability and maintainability
• Work with product owners to interpret feature and functionality requests and develop software in iterative design/build/test cycles using an agile development process.
• Drawing on components from open-source framework and other development tools and frameworks; lead the design, build, test and deploy software components and solutions
• Regularly check code into a continuous integration pipeline based on appropriate methodology to incrementally build the overall system and get immediate feedback on build performance
• Proactively seeks opportunities and lead the implementation of improvements to internal team processes, frameworks, codes and standards.
• Define solution architecture including database structures and entity relationships, technical use cases, develop roadmap and release plan and act as the technical lead/architect in solution development and deployments at multiple clients.
• Lead the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging/ troubleshooting of applications.
• Manage all the activities of the software development team (programming, devops, database management, testing, etc.) and set goals for each team member to ensure timely project delivery.
• Keep up to date with the latest development software
• Hire and train new developers
• Provide guidance to the team in all aspects of software development including code optimisation and troubleshooting and ensure they adhere to development standards
• Ensure proper documentation
• Perform other related tasks assigned by verraki technology lead

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 8 years post qualification relevant experience
• Membership of professional organizations/ associations and/or certifications will be an added advantage
• Previous experience in a reputable software development and consulting company
• Demonstrable achievements in landmark projects

Skills / Competence Requirements:

• Experience applying human-centered design/developmental processes while working collaboratively with clients and multidisciplinary project team.
• Deep expertise in various open-source framework and other development tools - javascript, python, C/C++, Dotnet, Java, Flutter, Angular, REACT etc.
• Deep expertise developing and deploying solutions in various platforms – ms azure, google cloud platform, amazon web services platform
• Deep expertise developing both web and mobile solutions across various operating systems, databases and platforms
• Ability to bring ideas and design solutions to life through the system development process
• Ability to work independently and identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently
• Working knowledge of any/some of the following is an added advantage:analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, IoT

Other Requirements:

• Good task management and personal time management skills
• Strong code documentation skills
• Excellent project planning and management skills
• Excellent team management.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: whitney.azuru@verraki.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.