Head of Digital & Technology at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

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 position below:

Job Title: Head of Digital & Technology

Location: Lagos

Job Objective

To play a leading role in the development of the bank’s digital and technology strategy, along with members of the board and management. To be the subject matter expert in technology management, and a key technology spokesperson in executive management.
To lead the execution of the strategy and take ownership for the digital and technology vision, goals and objectives.

Goals:

Digital Revenue
Digital Enterprise value (incorporating revenue, costs, growth and profits)
Number of digital customers
Speed to market
Digital Innovation
Agility
Fraud & Security
Downtime across channels & products
NPS/iNPS
Failed Transactions
Automation of processes
Implement remote workforce
Staff Technology Competence.

Accountabilities / Responsibilities

Make decisions on the technological requirements of the organization
Keep abreast and identify with the latest technology/industry trends, changes and development.
Use current technological trends to build a strategic & forward-looking roadmap
Own timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services and manage technology budgets
Develop data governance procedures working other departments to prepare, protect and analyse data assets ensuring the company meets industry best practices
Accountable for building robust apps & services that minimising cybersecurity threats and have strong operational resilience
Ensure technology practices adhere to regulatory standards, implement data privacy policies to comply with data protection regulations
Design and implement data strategies, pipelines and analysis systems
Communicate the status, value and importance of data collection to executive members and staff
Mentor team members

Qualifications / Experience

Leadership & general management experience
Strategic role in an organization
Significant technology experience
Line management (owning a P & L)
Technology Operations experience
Strategy execution experience
Understanding of and experience in banking is an added advantage
Strong understanding and experience with microservices and highly scalable event driven or distributed systems ideal
Experience managing deployment & maintenance of apps and microservices in hyper scale clouds (AWS, Azure and particularly Google Cloud) using Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD best practices
Strong understanding of managing the development and growth of API ecosystem and familiarity with domain driven design concepts.
Understanding of best practices with respect to testing and security/cybersecurity
Good understanding of modern NoSQL, conventional SQL, searching, multi-mode data infrastructure and securing customer data ensuring encryption of data always
Knowledge of web systems architecture, design and development

Behaviourial Competencies:

Personal Drive
Emotional Quotient – able to take decisions on facts & figures not emotions
Integrity
Empathy
Understanding of some of the following capabilities:
- Agile Methodology
- Design Thinking
- Cyber Security & Technology Risk
- System Resilience & Availability
- Data Science /Analytics
Effective negotiation and vendor management skills
Data Management
Effective budget planning skills
Professionalism & Ethical behaviour
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Knowledge of technology trends
Analytical Ability, Strategic thinking & Problem-solving skills.