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Recruitment at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance)
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 positions below:
Job Title: IT Recruiter Officer (Entry Level)
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- The duties involve a wide range of support activities inside our HR department, from maintaining our employee database to posting job ads and making calls/scheduling assessments to get qualified candidate that meet our clients requirements.
- To be an ideal candidate for this position, you should have a background in IT, Electrical electronics, Physics.
- We are looking for an IT recruiter officer to undertake a variety of HR administrative duties.
Requirements
- Fast computer typing skills (MS Office, in particular)
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong communications skills
- Minimum of 2:2
- Degree in any Computer field with at least 1 years' experience.
- Graduates who have completed their NYSC program.
- Vast knowledge on IT
- Proven experience in technical roles.
Job Title: Lead, Software Developer
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Applicants must be comfortable with advanced SQL syntax, SQL Server Business Intelligence development and SQL Server (additional experience with Oracle is highly desirable). The job holder needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career.
- The job holder must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details. The job holder must recognize the value of agile, iterative development processes, SDLC and have strong OOD and OOA skills.
- An exciting opportunity exists for a Lead, Software Developer to join a dynamic project team. The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based applications that also has proven in depth SQL-Server development experience.
Responsibilities
The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with implementation and testing of DB backups, restores and recovery models.
- Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
- Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
- Mobile and web service development experience
- Experience with ticketing systems (e.g.; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows
- Experience with SharePoint 2010 and above preferred
- Strong familiarity with source control systems (e.g. Team Suite)
- Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements
- Delivery experience with .NET framework, including C#, ADO.NET, LINQ and ASP.NET
- Extensive experience with SQL Server (2005/2008/2012)
- Experience with SQL data business intelligence (OLAP, etc…) preferred
- Advanced knowledge and experience in HTML and DHTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
- Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
Problem Solving:
The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:
- Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
- Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
- Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required
- The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
- Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
Experience / Technical skills
- Must list hands-on building and direct responsibility of projects worked on
- Experience in the use and Administration of MSSQL Database and Oracle Database
- using Stored Procedures, Functions, Views and so on.
- Efficient and effective use of NetBeans, Eclipse, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), PLSQL Developer.
- Sound knowledge of application deployment on Apache Tomcat Server, WildFly Server/JBOSS.
- A team-player with good interpersonal skill.
- Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.), Computer Science or similar (Minimum 2:2)
- 5+ years experience as an application developer.
- Highly proficient with the following: Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML, Spring MVC, Angular JS, Bootstrap, SOAP and Restful Services
- Must have NYSC certificate or exemption certificate
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
- The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to apply technical and enterprise business knowledge and experience to coordinate the architectural design, development, implementation and support of various information technology (IT) solutions encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise architecture projects & producing architecture deliverables
- Sign off system requirements, identify resources, and estimate timelines for project completion
- Adopt optimal information management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities
- Be part of a team of product development professionals in charge of gathering business requirements, defining and planning business architecture/standards for multiple applications that are consistent with overall enterprise application architecture and in alignment with corporate strategies and initiatives.
- Provide technical architecture reviews, utilize industry best practices and patterns, and help align business capabilities to technical capabilities
- Ensure that the application/systems, data and technology aspects of the enterprise architecture are driven by the business imperatives of the organisation and that the requirements driving the overall architecture are managed consistently and effectively
- Create architectural vision and strategy for new and existing solutions
Desired Competency and Skills Requirements
- High level of technical field expertise
- Knowledge of Network topology and software systems
- Excellent negotiation and facilitation skills
- Must have understanding of Enterprise Application Integration methods and general architectural principles
- Software development methodologies experience and structured approaches to system development
- Strong business analysis skills , experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, process modelling
Job Specification
- A Bachelor's Degree in the field of Computer Science or Electronic Engineering / associated Technology fields.
- Post NYSC 10+ years related professional work experience
Job Title: Team Lead, IT Security
Location: Lagos
Job Objective
- To oversee and ensure security of the banks information asset and ensure compliance to IT standard.
Accountabilities
- Organize, coordinate, review, analyze and give detailed report of penetration testing, control and audit exceptions.
- Review and remediate on security report of the banks infrastructure by the IT security partners.
- Review and remediate on ASV report of the banks assets.
- Ensure optimization of security tools for value proposition
- Coordinate and develop process for IT security project
- Develop and drive the framework for regular sentization of security awareness programme to staff.
- Ensure review of the banks information security policy and ensure compliance to the policy.
- Oversee the compliance to IT standards and relevant policies such as PCIDSS.
- Identify and advice management on security breaches.
- Develop processes for safeguarding information assets of the bank.
- Responsible for defining security frameworks for existing and new systems.
Professional Competencies
Core:
- Testing.
- Network planning & design.
- IT appreciation & application.
- Investigation.
- Information security.
- Network security.
- Operational risk management.
- Information systems audit.
- Policy formulation & implementation.
Non-core
- Data/Information Management.
- Business continuity planning.
Leadership Competencies:
- Initiative
- Decision quality & problem solving
- Coaching & developing others
- Interpersonal relations
Educational Qualification
- CCSP, CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001, ITIL, CEH.
- First Degree in a Numerate or Physical Science.
Experience:
- At least 8 years cognate experience in IT/Network security, Information security.
Application Deadline 31st January, 2020.
Job Title: IT Infrastructure Specialist (Senior)
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
- Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
- Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
- Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
- Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
- Our client requires an IT infrastructure senior specialist to assist in the following:
- Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
- Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
- Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
- Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
Requirements
Experience:
- Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
- Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
- Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
- Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
- 7-13 years’ experience which includes:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
- Experience working in a medium to large organization
- Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
- Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
- Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
Education:
- Fluent in English
- Masters advantageous.
- First degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
Cetifications:
- Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
- Certified Governance Enterprise I
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
- ISO 27005 Risk management
- Functional Skills Development
- Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
- COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
- Secure Development
Application Deadline 30th January, 2020.
Job Title: Lead IT Infrastructure Support (Manager)
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Develop short term and long term IT infrastructure technology roadmap.
- Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
- Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
- Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
- Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units
- Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
- Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering storage, systems and devices, ERP etc
- Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
- Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
- Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
Requirements
Experience:
- Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
- Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
- Strong experience working in a complex Infrastructure environment
- Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database administration, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
- Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
- At least 8 years' experience which includes:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
- Experience working in a medium to large organization
- Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines; specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
- Experience in UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ORACLE.
Education:
- Fluent in English
- Masters advantageous.
- First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
Cetifications:
- Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
- Certified Governance Enterprise I
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
- ISO 27005 Risk management
- Functional Skills Development
- Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
- COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
- Secure Development
Job Title: Team Lead, Data Center Management
Location: Lagos
Job Objective
- To oversee an effective data center and telecommunication management framework that delivers dependable and efficient support to the banks IT infrastructure.
Accountabilities
- Monitor changes in design metrics and make adequate recommendations for required capacity growth.
- Ensure the availability of the banks contact center and voice communication network.
- Supervise and ensure standard compliance procedures are strictly followed
- Evaluate and research new technologies that increase productivity and reduce cost.
- Project management of IT infrastructure deployment for new branches and branch network.
- Leverage on best technology to design and deploy reliable, effective and resilient power and cooling infrastructures to effectively support all branches, branch ATMs and offsite locations in accordance with industrial best practices to increase branch operational TAT.
- Ensure the availability of data center infrastructure at both production and data recovery sites
- Oversee the delivery of adequate support on infrastructures by ensuring the availability of all assets in data center locations at both production and data recovering sites
Professional Competencies
Core:
- Communication
- Business savvy
- Customer focus
- Data / Information Management
- Negotiation
- Business Presentation Skills
- Vendor management
- Data Center Infrastructure design
- Power Management
- Telecoms/ voice networking
- Knowledge of relevant policy and regulations
- Knowledge of troubleshooting hardware and operational systems
- Stakeholder Management
- Service level agreement
Non core:
- Project management
- Reporting
Educational Qualification
- First Degree in Engineering, Numerate, Physical Science. ITIL foundation, data center management.
Experience:
- At least 4 years cognate experience.
Job Title: Lead Network Administrator
Location: Lagos
Job Description
Our client requires an IT Infrastructure Senior Specialist to work in the following:
- Ensure network capacity management by leading the improvement of procedures and standards.
- Manage all aspects of the IT Department including the financial purchasing, budgeting, and budget review
- Manage the delivery or provision of a complete range of Information Technology Services covering networks, telecommunications, systems and devices, ERP etc
- Negotiate, administer and manage vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements with in conjunction with Procurement and other relevant business units.
- Implement IT projects and initiatives efficiently and effectively for best outcomes; approve and oversee projects and project portfolio.
- Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals.
- Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical support services.
- Diagnose and ascertain technology requirements; make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems
- Direct research and other analysis to support IT planning; direct research on potential technology solutions
- Develop business cases and undertake cost-benefit analyses to justify or support IT spending and initiatives.
- Oversee network planning, design and optimisation of existing infrastructure.
- Ensure performance standards for WAN, LAN Mast providers/vendors are met and adequate security is maintained across network infrastructures.
- Monitor overall network performance, analysis and review to ensure highly stable and predictable network.
- Ensure availability of links and network resources.
Requirements
Education:
- Fluent in English
- Masters advantageous.
- First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
Experience:
At least 8 years’ experience which includes:
- Experience with emerging technology, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Hadoop, Mongo DB and Unified communications
- Strong experience in network performance tuning, network design and implementation.
- Experience working in a medium to large organization
- specifically IT infrastructure and Solution environment
- Strong LAN experience.
- Hands on experience at Enterprise Architecture level
- Knowledge of relevant policies and regulations.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in project management.
- Experience in IT and Business and systems Analysis and related disciplines;
- Experience in planning and managing Infrastructure based projects and services inclusive of demonstrated experience in Security solutions and technologies at or before deployment
- Strong experience working in a complex infrastructure environment
- Strong experience in infrastructure architecture, data centers, servers, Database, Backup, Storage, SAN Switch and networks
Certifications:
- Secure Development
- Lead Implementer – Cyber Resilience
- Certified Governance Enterprise I
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementation
- ISO 27005 Risk management.
- Functional Skills Development
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
- Certified IS Security Practitioner (CISSP)
- COMTIA Adv. Security Practitioner (CASP)
- ITIL Foundation
Application Deadline 31st January, 2020.
Job Title: Program Manager (Telco Charging System)
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- Prepares internal and external briefing material and presentations.
- Helps develop strategies for system integration of future technology.
- Mentors the next level of teams for growth and capability development.
- Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs.
- Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets.
- Manages account level delivery projects and efficiencies as well as relationship, engagement and expectation management.
- Manages vendors to ensure delivery.
- Manages the Charging System.
- Develops and expands solutions to improve efficiency and capacity.
- Aligns and informs team members and stakeholders on roles and responsibilities, awareness of project scope, milestones, etc.
- Drives project work to completion, using good judgment in determining when to escalate issues internally;
- Participates in program reviews, technical interchange meetings/reviews, and engineering team meetings;
- Establishes relationships with customers to ensure successful execution of projects.
- Supports project financial planning and analysis.
Qualification
- Fluent in English
- Master's Degree is advantageous.
- First Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent
Requirements
- Ability to manage relationships and expectations of the customer and work with staff at all levels.
- Implementation experience should have covered at a minimum 2 end-to-end COTS implementation or System Integration projects.
- Good track record in delivering high quality projects in time.
- Candidate must have in-depth experience of using standard program/project management methodologies (PMP, Prince2) and software engineering methodologies complying with international quality standards such as ISO or CMM.
- Candidate must have experience of handling multi-supplier engagements with strong skills in contract/scope management.
- Strong working experiences in multinationals and multicultural environments with good customer facing, strong written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Candidate must have experience of managing project budgets and accountability for program P&L.
- Minimum of 8 years experience in Program/Delivery management in the Telecom domain.
- Experience in implementing/designing Digital Transformation projects.
- Experience of implementing/designing BSS solutions on Mediation, Rating, Charging, VAS, Convergent Billing, Revenue Assurance, Business Intelligence, and ETL.
- Experience of integration activities for complex IT and Telecom BSS solutions.
- Experience in pre-sales activities through developing solution proposals, project size, and cost estimation.
- Strong hands-on experience writing High-Level/Detail Solution Design documents and SOW.
- Strong Business Analysis skills with the ability to define and interpret business and technical requirements.
- Experience in working on-site and remotely with the customers? Subject Matter Experts and management team to define business and system requirements for successful deployment of solutions and services.
Application Deadline 5th February, 2020.
Job Title: API Software Tester
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and talented API software tester to join a dynamic team.
Job Requirements
- Mastery of at least 3 web technologies and proficiency in several others e.g. CSS, HTML, JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, Python.
- Ex Deep understanding of server-side technologies, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges, mobile development anatomy, sms based stuff
- Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style.
- Working knowledge of relational database design and management.
- Practical experience in writing test scripts for API testing and/or QA automation tools
- Fearless in the face of massive, daunting technical challenges
- Should be able to use the following technologies: Python, JavaScript (ES6), MongoDB , Node.js, HTML5, Elasticsearch, Linux (Command line knowledge such as BASH, ZSH, or FISH), Basic Understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure), Docker, Serverless Technologies
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Telecommunications or any other related fields
- 3 years working experience in all aspects of web and mobile application development and management.
- Experience with UNIX/Linux system administration and web server configuration.
- Very strong technical background with a flair for technology management;
- Knowledge of Linux, scripting or programming capabilities.
- Linux certifications will be a very strong advantage
- Domain name, service configuration and management; antivirus management and firewall configuration
- Programming skills (PHP, Java); Operating systems/Database : Red-Hat Linux (Shell Scripting), Oracle DB, SQL)
Application Deadline 7th February, 2020.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV (in MS Word not PDF), current (if any) and expected salary to:
[email protected] ,
[email protected] and
[email protected] Using the job title as the subject of the email. e.g "IT Recruiter Officer".
