Career Openings at UBA Bank

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa's leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria, UBA has grown to become a Pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally. We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:     Job Title: Chief Information Officer, Africa Reference #: LAG002 Location: Lagos Island, Lagos State Contract Type: Permanent Job Functions: Information Technology Industries: IT - Information Technology Introduction The Chief information offer (Africa)is responsible for:

• Aligning the regional IT objectives and programs to the company’s objectives and strategies while coordinating Information Technology and Information Systems across the region.
• all technology solution delivery (Internal/vendor/off-the-shelf solutions) and enhancements across the region.
• Managing internal and external application development & deployment in line with best practices.

• Possess a good knowledge of design patterns, solution/service oriented architecture, API management and micro-services architecture.
• Frameworks, languages and environments:
  • Possesses a good knowledge of diverse development domains - languages, frameworks (ORM, Entity, Hibernate), utilities, development environments.
  • Possess a good knowledge of Continuous integration and Continuous deployment
  • Good knowledge of solution risk assessment, security considerations, authentication and authorization best practices.
  • Good knowledge of agile development best practises

• Good knowledge of project management, work breakdown structure, execution, reporting and project governance.
• Develops, recommends and implements long-term and short-term technology plans, budgets and programs that support and align with the strategic objectives of the region and the goals of the business lines, while maximizing the mix of in-house versus outsourced solutions and vendors

• Drive interview and selection process and recommend suitably qualified candidates for consideration and final appointment by the authorised official
• Drive good work culture, team responsiveness and healthy work balance
• Facilitate team education & knowledge transfer by training and knowledge sharing session
• Build team structure to aid a systematic relief process and business continuity.
• Imbibe emotional intelligence skills and adequately apply where necessary

• Develop and implement IT standards and procedures to aid in the development of high quality software
• Ensure that all members within the region understand and follow existing IT standards.

• Must be on top of technology stack and learn the latest developments and techniques, as well as broader industry-wide trends
• Drive and sponsor innovation in the team work
• Build team spirit and desire to experiment and try new things and unconventional solutions.
• Build creative solutions adopting cutting edge technologies. Must be forward thinking and daring

• Manage and drive third-level support with in country teams
• Provide support to third parties on solution on boarding and management

• First degree in Computer Science or Engineering or other related fields
• Masters’ Degree or IT professional qualification will be an advantage

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience, out of which 5 years must have been spent in a managerial role
• Work related experience must consist of operations and information systems management experience in the financial services industry

• Banking products/services
• Object-oriented programming languages e.g. Java, .NET etc.
• Technologies that can drive banking operations
• Finacle Technologies
• Experience in designing and building scalable and robust solutions in large web application deployments

• Responsible for the financial information associated with Information Technology delivery

• Manage the IT-related financial activities such as Accruals and Work-In-Progress
• Prepare a budget reflecting the investment priorities supporting strategic objectives based on the portfolio of IT-enabled programmes and IT services
• Analyze variances between forecasts and actual costs, and report using the enterprise’s financial measurement systems
• Implement a cost management process comparing actual costs to budgets
• Consult stakeholders to identify and control the total costs within the context of the IT strategic and tactical plans, and initiate corrective action where needed

• Evaluate the portfolio of IT-enabled investments, services and assets to determine the likelihood of achieving enterprise objectives and delivering value at a reasonable cost
• Monitor the key goals and metrics to determine the extent to which the business is generating the expected value and benefits to the enterprise from IT-enabled investments and services
• Identify significant issues and recommend corrective actions

• Ensure the adoption of resource management principles to enable optimal use of IT resources throughout their full economic life cycle
• Continually examine and make recommendation on the current and future need for IT-related resources, to meet the needs of the enterprise in an optimal manner

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience, out of which 3 years must have been spent in Finance or a similar role in IT

• Business Analysis or Analytics
• Critical Thinking
• Creative Problem Solving
• Good interpersonal and communications skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• COBIT 5
• ISO/IEC 20000
• ITIL V3

• Finance or Accounting or Budget principles
• Good understanding of industry best practices
• Good understanding of policies, processes and procedures
• Resource management