Description
Head of IT Development, Lagos, Nigeria - 12 months contract - c£800p/day + Benefits (Housing, Schooling, Medical, Bonus, Flights)
The company is seeking an individual with a broad experience of large scale IT systems. The ideal candidate will be operating at a senior level reporting in to the CTO. The Head of IT Development and Enterprise Architecture (EA) will have overall responsibility for the technical roadmap and its components.
Responsibilities include:
- Provides overall direction, guidance and definition of IT architecture, to effectively support the corporate business strategy.
- Bridge the gap between IT and management
- Lead the development team and external contractors
- Develop, maintain, and deliver the company's technical roadmap, ensure technical consistency between various platforms used
- Contribute to the overall strategy/direction of the technology department and advise on best practice
- Ensure company's technological infrastructure is operating effectively and efficiently
- Software selection, evaluation and implementation
- Development of large software systems as well as customization of existing software
- Reduce dependencies between systems to simplify the technology solution
- Overall responsible for performance of systems - uptime, quality, user experience
- Ensure Agile tenets are being followed and improved upon
- Participate in resource planning & scheduling for the team and developer interview process
- Proactively work with Product/Business Owner to define product epics and update roadmaps
Experience
- Minimum 5 years' experience in managing an IT Development operation, ideally from a logistics background
- Working experience and understanding of Enterprise Architecture best practices frameworks and standards, for example, TOGAF
- Software Engineering background, proven track record of having worked as developer and as a team leader, across multiple platforms, especially MS
- All round skill set in application development and project roll outs
- Integrating various software solutions into one working system
- Development of large software systems
- Customization of existing software
- Ability to command a multi cultural team based in different locations
- Executive communication skills, strategic thinking and understanding of corporate strategy and IT's role in its context