IT Technical Project Manager at Oyara Solutions

Oyara Solutions, a subsidiary of AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Technical Project Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

The IT technical project manager will carry out IT infrastructure planning by consolidating inputs from various stakeholders and converting them into actionable IT Infrastructure implementation plans. Coordinate the on-site work of external IT infrastructure provider, local IT team, software solution vendors, service providers and related stakeholders.
He will take ownership of software implementation activities based on target software architecture designs and plans.

Main Responsibilities

Project Management of multi-country IT Projects
Manage, oversee and deliver integrated infrastructure/systems plans
Vendor Management for the following fields: IT Infrastructure, Datacenters, Internet Services, Software and web solutions
Stakeholder management and collaboration with IT and business project managers
Ensure timely delivery of the different phases of the different projects at the required quality
Budget calculation, cost planning and reporting
Manage budget for projects and changes
Travelling across Sub-Sahara Africa to supervise project implementation team(s).

Requirements

At least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience within IT industry and preferably within consulting firms
At least 4 years of relevant experience in IT project management preferably in a multi-location / multi-country environment or Banking environment or Consulting environment
Ability to manage pressure situations and provide outstanding service delivery to competing priorities for requests, inquiries and meeting high client expectations.
Ability to take responsibility and work autonomously.

Necessary Experience and Knowledge:

Experience in IT Infrastructure planning and deployment
Experience coordinating IT infrastructure delivery vendors and internal teams
Experience documenting IT infrastructure designs
Experience in ICT infrastructure auditing, gap analysis and documentation
Experience managing different stakeholders such as software vendors, internal development team and software quality assurance team.
Experience in Contracting and management of local ICT vendors and providers
Experience planning Windows Server technologies (HyperV, MS AD, LDAP, GPO, WAP, MS Licensing, load-balancing)
Experience with Data Network planning (LAN/WAN concepts, data transmission, routing, protocol stack, DNS, DHCP, load balancing, firewalls, web application proxies)
Experience with storage technologies (SAN, NAS, FE, RAID) including backup and data replication technologies
Experience in implementation of virtualized server infrastructures with centralized storage and DC networking
Experience of overall Database planning, administration, monitoring, optimization, backup
Experience of MS SQL setup, configuration, administration, monitoring, optimization, backup
Experience documenting software architecture blueprints, designs, deployment guidelines
Experience of Web applications deployment (Web Application Proxy, Reverse proxy, Load-balancing)
Experience implementing MS Navision Dynamics, WSO2, UT Route solutions would be beneficial
Knowledge of ITSM frameworks and practices including ITIL, ISO27001
Knowledge of IT Project Management best practices.