Program Manager

Job Information

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    Category Management Jobs
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    Posted On Jan 13 ,2021
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    Qualifications Bachelor's Degree
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    Employer Name Delon Jobs
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    Contact Email cv@delonllc.com

Job Description

Job Summary:

Delon Jobs is helping Africa’s leading integrated digital, payments and commerce company to hire Program Manager Lagos. The successful candidate will manage software development projects in alignment with engineering process. The Program Manager reports to the Head, Program Management.

Please read additional requirements below before applying. If you are interested in the position, kindly send cover letter and updated CV to cv@delonllc.com , and ensure you make your email subject ‘Program Manager’

Job Description:

In addition to the job summary details, the following are other requirements and important information:

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

  • Performs industry analysis to increase own awareness on quality standards and provides insights to the Quality Assurance team
  • Develops and establishes quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles
  • Prepares and delivers reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in IT systems and projects across the organisation

Agile Project Management

  • Ensures satisfactory service with customers at all levels (Business Analyst, Developers, and Management)
  • Conducts internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established Quality Assurance standards for software development, application integration, information system performance, and corresponding documentation
  • Drive or coordinate agile events in the team, namely; Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo and retrospective
  • Ensures that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues
  • Ensures proper documentation of all product and project activities
  • Reviews new or modified programs, including documentation, diagram, and flow charts, to determine if the programs will perform according to user requests and conform to guidelines
  • Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers
  • Creates methodologies and processes for the collection and analysis of data for ensuring software, systems, and product quality
  • Track project against its schedule and objectives and take corrective actions to address deviations
  • Effective and timely use of project management tool to prepare and update project plans and report
  • Actively participate in product design and analysis

Operations (Systems Analysis)

  • Liaise with Operations team on project planning, execution, rollout and monitoring
  • Assists in the deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications
  • Conducts research on hardware and software products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts
  • Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers / engineers
  • Participates in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications

Knowledge/Experience

  • Minimun of Bachelor’s degree (2.2)/ HND in Computer/ System/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering/ Applied physics/ Computer Science or related fields.
  • Minimum of seven (3) years in a similar function with a focus on IT product
  • Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology

Infrastructure Library), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile

Project Management, Certified Scum Master (CSM), PRINCE2

Foundation/Professional, Associate in Project Management, Certified

Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Certified Business Analysis

Skills/Competence

  • Consultancy
  • Software Design
  • Software Testing
  • Database Management
  • Software Documentation
  • Configuration Management
  • Research
  • Emerging Technology Monitoring
  • Business Analysis
  • User Experience (UX) Design