Interswitch stands as a prominent African leader in the realm of integrated payments and digital commerce solutions. The company prides itself on delivering innovative services that seamlessly connect businesses, billers, and consumers through its remarkable retail payments ecosystem known as Quickteller. Founded in Nigeria in 2002, Interswitch has continually evolved to become a comprehensive transaction switching and processing company with a strong national focus. Its expansion also encompasses the provision of consumer financial services, solidifying its position as a transformative force in the African market.
Job Category: Software Engineering
Location: Lagos (Nigeria)
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Description Summary
In this fast-paced payment industry, the Head of Core Technology is responsible for overseeing the efficient implementation of solutions by combining software engineering and systems administration techniques. All site reliability engineering within the business falls under the purview of this position. Ensure stability and scalability, promote Interswitch goods and services’ overall availability, dependability, and resilience, and foresee capacity expansion through meticulous planning and trend awareness.
Responsibilities:
- Manage infrastructure creation and upkeep to guarantee the ongoing availability, dependability, and stability of all applications and to limit application downtime and business activities’ disruption.
- Ensure system dependability for our primary payment switch, web-based consumer facing apps, and production important databases.
- Establish the core IT team’s vision and strategy in accordance with enterprise architecture and overall business goals.
- Create a strategic architectural strategy that ensures advantages can be realized, benefits are prioritized appropriately, estimates are accurate, and design activities are actively tracked and evaluated.
- Establishing architectural standards for all technology services and components in charge (applications, data, integration, technology, security, business).
- Give business and IT leaders recommendations that are ready for signatures on how to modify programs and initiatives to achieve desired business results that take advantage of pertinent digital disruptions.
- Use a combination of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to elicit the most complicated business needs and describe them in terms of target user roles and objectives.
- Describe the connection to the organization’s overall mission, vision, and values. Identify and describe the steps necessary to accomplish the function’s strategy and business plan within the business area or department. Encourage others to commit to these and take extraordinary actions to fulfill their local business objectives.
Additional Duties
- Ensure that the proper security program is in place to reduce breaches and guarantee the infrastructure’s continuous availability by driving the security of all applications.
- Take the initiative to identify vulnerabilities, analyze them, and close any security gaps in accordance with the security incident management method.
- To reduce business risk and safeguard the organization’s reputation, develop, implement, and promote adherence to internal and external regulations, technology governance, and business practices applicable to the area of responsibility.
- Manage and evaluate a sizable, diversified team’s performance; establish reasonable performance goals for direct reports or members of the project or account team; and hold them accountable for attaining these goals. if necessary, take the necessary corrective action to guarantee that your team’s or your own goals are met.
- Determine the team’s individual development needs using the formal development framework of the organization.
- Ensure that the team is able to produce the appropriate quality while also increasing their engagement by offering technical assistance, coaching, development, and feedback.
- Holds oneself, as well as others, accountable for keeping promises
- Translates complex, abundant, and occasionally contradictory information to efficiently solve problems
- Accurately identifies the essential components of unclear, difficult situations
- Utilizes business and market expertise to achieve the objectives of the organization
- Shares market trends with the team, assisting them in gaining an understanding of the principles of business and industry and how they may participate.
- Creates and delivers multimodal messages that demonstrate a thorough awareness of the particular requirements of various audiences.
Qualification
- Computer science or a related “STEM” major (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) degree from an accredited university
- 12 years minimum of IT and business/industry job experience, including deployment of systems and architecture, or infrastructure automation.
- The ability to influence senior level management and important stakeholders while leading many, large, cross-functional teams or projects
- Exposes users to a variety of complex technology and processing settings
- About five years or more experience in team building and management
- Knowledge of well-known public clouds like AWS and Azure
Additional Requirement
- Creates cohesive teams with various viewpoints and skills that work together to accomplish shared objectives
- Supports team decisions and acts in a way that fosters team spirit
- Possesses the ability to persuade others by using strong arguments
- Carefully considers and seeks advice on how to create a convincing argument that appeals to others’ interests
- Extensive knowledge of relational databases, real-time databases, and NoSQL databases among other database technologies
- Knowledge in creating and running Kubernetes clusters
- Experience creating automated software development build pipelines
- knowledge of a variety of implementation and support methods and tools, including Ansible, Terraform, and Chef, for infrastructure-as-code and automations.
What We Can Do for You:
Perks & Benefits
- Up to standard base salary (Very Attractive)
- Comprehensive health plans
- Car Grant
- Lunch on us
- Money Savings Scheme
- Flexible work policy
- Conducive work environment
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified applicants should click on APPLY NOW to create your profile and complete your application.
Application Deadline
The closing date for Application submission is the 2nd of January, 2023.