IT Security Planning & Architecture Resources Officer at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Security Planning & Architecture Resources Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Level 2

Job Description

• Lead investigations and proactively assist Senior Management in defining strategies to protect Organization’s data from attack.
• Lead cybersecurity initiatives in conjunction with Group Cybersecurity team.
• Design and implement security controls to safeguard and monitor events for information systems, enterprise applications and data.
• Lead the implementation of information security projects.
• Define and enforce security requirements for applications in development.
• Design, document, and deploy secure infrastructure solutions to enhance and evaluate the security posture of the business to ensure integrity, availability, and confidentiality of all critical enterprise data.Collaborate with development teams to integrate security best practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with security requirements throughout the development process.
• Liaise with stakeholders in respect of operational implementation of security policies and best practices.
• Collaborate with the Client Server Team to ensure that technical plans are practical, controls are sustainable, and implementations are managed to minimize risk and adverse impact to servers, work stations, and user productivity.
• Implement the infrastructure, configurations, and processes to monitor security related events.
• Prevent data loss and services interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect the enterprise network.
• Document and operationalize information security.
• Ensure all security documentation s are up to date.
• Ensure conformance to Cybersecurity Blueprint/Roadmap
• Provide inputs to company strategic plan on all initiatives to ensure that security gaps/vulnerabilities are identified & closed.
• End-to-end planning, and execution of program.
• Communicate and engage with stakeholders.
• Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions so as not to impede the progress of the project,
• Ensure processes, procedure and policies defined with the it division is understood and adhered to.
• Develop and deliver security awareness training programs on a quarterly, annual, and on-demand  basis.
• Create and distribute security awareness materials, such as presentations, posters, and email alerts.
• Measure the effectiveness of security awareness programs through surveys, tests, and other metrics.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Four (4) years work experience of which includes three (3) years Security Architecture experience.
• Experience in the following: Identity Management technology. Vulnerability assessment and treatment, Systems Auditing, Security Architecture, Network, wireless Security.
• Proven experience in the full Secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) - project vision through project implementation - for both small and medium enterprise projects
• Good working knowledge of Security Design & Architecture.

Application Closing Date
27th March, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in PDF to: faitho@gvapartners.com and tisea@gvapartners.com and copy contact@gvapartners.com using the job title as the subject of the email.