Chief Technology Officer Job in a Technology Firm in Abuja
Emerging Platforms Group is an innovation focused technology firm with
offices in Lagos and Abuja. We work with governments, security agencies,
corporate organizations and individuals to
deliver turnkey,
performance enhancing technology and security solutions.
We are seeking to employ qualified and experienced candidate to fill the position below:
Job Title: Chief Technology Officer
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- The Chief Technology Officer's (CTO) role is to assure the
successful execution of the company’s business mission through
development and deployment of various technologies as required.
- This requires envisioning the company’s service offerings as a
technology solution provider, leading implementation, providing ongoing
support and planning for risk and growth.
- The CTO will provide strategic and hands-on leadership for the
company’s key value delivery processes and will lead the project
management, solution engineering, infrastructure and technical support
efforts of the business.
- This role will be ultimately responsible for the delivery and
ongoing support of all projects and will play a lead role in ensuring
that the technology deployment strategy supports the business goals in a
timely, efficient and profitable manner.
Responsibilities
- In partnership with executive management, identify opportunities and risks in achieving the company’s strategic objectives.
- Be responsible for the development of all customer solutions to time, budget and defined scope.
- Be responsible for the ongoing support and administration of all internal, external or customer
- Participate as a member of the senior management team in
establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure
that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the
organization’s resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas
of software development, office networks and computers, and
telecommunications.
- Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.
- Establish a governance process that meets government, partner,
and company expectations for all internal and external technology
implementations.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry
trends, emerging technologies, project management, infrastructure,
technical support, user support and software development best practices.
- Define and communicate company values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software.
- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
- Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s
investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with
regard to the company’s technological vision, opportunities, and
challenges.
- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process for all units within the department
- Support the marketing process by providing business advisory
services during formulation of sales and marketing strategies/targets.
- implementations and systems.
- Be responsible for project stakeholder management and high level technical interactions
- Liaise with all relevant departments and take leadership on the
design, delivery and support of all internal, external or customer
projects.
- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms for delivering the company’s services.
- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying
and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the
evaluation, development, and deployment of all solutions.
- Ensure that units under the CTO’s direct supervision work with
appropriate stakeholders to develop project scope and project plans that
include an analysis of benefit, cost, work schedule and any related
risks.
- Assign, schedule, review, and monitor project work to ensure
that progress is within expected guidelines and is completed on time and
within agreed or assigned budget
- Ensure departmental appraisals and developmental plans are carried out as and when required
- Ensure appropriate contract documents are created and maintained for all business engagements.
- Brief the board and management, generate divisional reports and manage all the human and material resources of the division.
- Lead strategic planning to achieve project milestones.
- Lead the design, build and Implementation of technology
innovations that will position the company as a market leader in the
industry.
- Ensure that all team members understand and are guided by the core cultures of the organization.
- Ensure adequate business continuity and disaster recovery across all technical business assets.
- Create and maintain skills and competency succession plans for all unit heads and team members to ensure business stability.
Requirements
To succeed in this job role, you should have:
- A minimum 6 years’ experience in ICT / Technology Industry
Space, with experience spanning software development, hardware,
integration, support and project management.
- Managerial level work experience
- Experience in Relational Database Management Systems (Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL)
- Understanding of Webservers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS), Cloud architecture (cloud hosting, AWS, Azure)
- Excellent understanding of ICT Program / Project Management Principles and Tools.
- Strong People and Team Management Skills
- Outstanding leadership, negotiating and influencing skills.
- Strong business ethics and high level of integrity.
- A MBA or Masters in ICT
- Experience in managing agile software development
- Experience with ITIL
- 3+ years of experience as both a hands-on architect and a software engineer
- Experience in hands-on Java or .NET, PHP, HTML, CSS and jQuery
- Experience in Linux/Windows Server operating systems
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should forward their applications and CV's to:
[email protected]
Note: Should you meet our job requirements, we will get
back to you in order to schedule a job interview. If you have not been
contacted within two (2) weeks of the closing date, please consider your
application unsuccessful
Application Deadline 5th June, 2016