Technical Project Manager Lead at GVA Partners Limited

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 of:   Job Title: Technical Project Manager Lead Location: Lagos Reports To: Senior Management

Job Summary

• The candidate must also be familiar managing the server-side core, creating and dimensioning DBs, and creating web platforms, and mobile
• Apps on the Android and IOS platforms, and integrating various 3rd party VAS products via APIs and gateways including SMS, IM and Email.
• The candidate must have experience with software development and management tools such as GitHub, and project management tools such as Jira, Trello, Asana, etc.
• This position reports to senior management. The Technical Project Manager Lead is in charge of the technical aspects of product development and is involved from concept to product delivery.
• We are looking for a manager with a software development background who understands and has worked on full stack projects, both web and mobile, and is familiar with payments stack.
• The candidate must be familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL DBs, NodeJS and Python, or has worked on similar stack technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise and development efficient, elegant, clean code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction
• Deliver code in an agile team environment - you will operate in a weekly / bi-weekly scrum model
• Managing the technical aspects of the project from software development to IT integration
• Supervise and perform QA / QC on project and verify functionality and specifications required to pass QC.
• Oversee both internal and external User Acceptance Testing and assist the marketing team in proposing modifications enhancements and new products.
• Lead a group of software development programmers (both in-house and outsourced)
• Keep projects on track and on time; properly articulating and capturing deliverables and dependencies, and managing plans with adequate slack
• Provide technical product requirements, structure & documentation
• Design, develop and test high throughput issuance transaction processing systems

Skills and Experience

• Experience in QA methodologies, test automation and automation frameworks
• Experience in driving Integration testing, UAT internally and with external vendors
• Experience working in payments or financial services industry
• Exposure to Agile Methodologies
• A keen eye for detail and acute numerate skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive with a can do attitude
• Excellent leadership and decision-making abilities.
• 7+ years of experience in the IT & Fintech Sectors
• Experience in object-oriented programming and concepts
• Proven track record in delivering highly available, scalable systems on time
• Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON
• Experience developing data-driven applications using an industry standard RDBMS (e.g, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience in both development and quality assurance activities

 

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the "Job Title" as the subject of the email.