IT Team Leader at Triax Technologies Limited

Triax Technologies designs and delivers enterprise software, digital platforms, FinTech systems, InsurTech solutions, and operational tools for businesses, institutions, insurers, and government-facing organizations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Team Leader

Location: Abuja

Role Overview

• This is a leadership-and-architecture role. You are hiring judgement and the ability to carry other people, not just raw coding speed.
• The strongest individual contributor is not automatically the right lead, and conflating the two is one of the more common hiring mistakes.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture across Triax's platforms, setting the standards and patterns the rest of the team builds against.
• Lead, mentor and grow the engineering and technician team, distributing work fairly and deliberately developing the people beneath them rather than hoarding the interesting problems.
• Take final responsibility for release management: deployment, staging, migrations, rollbacks, and the integrity of production at all times.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into sound technical decisions, and translate technical realities back to leadership in plain language.
• Own the security and compliance posture of the systems, ensuring identity and financial data are handled to NAICOM and broader regulatory expectations.
• Design and safeguard integrations with external partners such as banks, DisCos and payment providers.
• Lead incident response when systems fail, restoring service calmly and conducting honest post-mortems that prevent recurrence.
• Set and uphold engineering discipline across code review, testing, documentation and secret management.

Requirements

• At least five to seven years of hands-on full-stack or systems experience, with a meaningful portion of it in a production environment where real users and real consequences were involved. Time spent only on prototypes or coursework does not count the same way.
• Demonstrable experience leading or coordinating a small technical team, even informally. Look for evidence they have mentored juniors, run a release, or owned a system end to end rather than just a feature.
• Solid architectural judgement: deciding where state lives, when to choose a relational store over something else, how to design an API that an external partner like a bank or a DisCo can safely consume, and how to keep a system maintainable as it grows.
• Non-negotiable security and regulatory awareness: secure handling of identity and financial data, audit logging, access control, and the understanding that the system must be able to answer a regulator's questions. Someone who has worked in a regulated environment before is worth a premium.
• A track record of safe deployment and incident handling: rollbacks, staging, careful database migrations, and a calm, communicative manner when something breaks at an inconvenient hour.
• Communication that matches the code. They will be translating between the engineers and the rest of Triax, including non-technical leadership, so explaining a trade-off in plain language is part of the job, not a soft extra.

Nice to Have:

• Desirable criteria
• Prior fintech or insurtech experience, and familiarity with the Nigerian regulatory landscape, NAICOM in particular.
• Experience integrating with external systems such as bank KYC flows, payment rails, or utility billing infrastructure.
• A relevant degree or professional certification, though demonstrated work is weighted above paper.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and managing secrets properly.
• Disposition and character
• Honesty under pressure, especially the instinct to disclose a problem rather than quietly paper over it.
• Self-awareness, including the ability to name a past mistake.
• The temperament to stay structured when things are on fire.
• A genuine willingness to grow the people under them rather than hoard the interesting work.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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