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Abidjan, Ci

Lomé, Maritime Region, Togo

• Lead and oversee the technology Hub (ESC), responsible for driving innovation, research, and development initiatives across multiple domains, including AI and data analytics. • Direct the delivery of Digital & software solutions for the Ecobank Group• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and develop innovative solutions to address customer needs.• Develop and execute strategic plans for technology innovation, aligning with organizational objectives and market trends.• Provide leadership and strategic trust to all software development teams across the Ecobank Group• Participate as a member of the senior management team and work with stakeholders to develop a clear technology vision and road map for the company.

Lome/Lagos/Accra

• Drove Digitalisation to improve overall customer experience.• Led a high-performing team of SDM, SRE and 60+ software and platforms engineers geographically distributed across Africa, to develop secure, reliable and scalable digital solutions and optimise production workload to consistently maintain 99.99% uptime and transaction success rate across platforms to achieve an unrivalled customer experience and continuous improvement.• Led the software engineering function in developing, releasing, and maintaining software applications according to business needs.• Also led the charter of building the SRE team and developing governance for SRE practice to include Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management practices in partnership with technology leaders across eProcess

Accra/Lagos

Provide hands-on architecture & development leadership, guidance and mentoring to our distributed engineering teams, close collaborator, and trusted advisor to the SVP of Engineering, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions in alignment with group IT strategy.Makes high level design choices, dictates technical standard including software coding standards, tools and platform. Conduct strategic planning for future activities through co-ordination with technical and business leaders.Led a fantastic team of Software Engineers, SDMs.

Ghana

Provide leadership and guidance to the engineering team. Implemented roadmap for system record, interaction, and reasoning by directing development and operations of Software team. Collaborated with engineers and software developers to select appropriate design solutions and ensured compatibility of system components. Communicated with staff and clients to understand specific system requirements. Sustained tools for BPM, ALM, testing, cloud environment, and identified issues, cost targets, SLA’s, and risk mitigation to meet user needs.

Lagos

• Performed a wide range of tasks, including workflow management system, third-party solutions, Flexcube core banking system upgrade, oracle service bus, fusion middleware solution, and BPMS to enhance the smooth progression of process/operation. • Supervised and observed disaster recovery applications and associated dependent infrastructure. • Updated and supported businesses in uncertain events in compliance with plans and procedures. • Assigned sub-system and functional documentation of business by providing procedural code and paperwork. • Headed database modelling and design to define the relational tables, primary, and foreign keys, stored procedures, and identify missing and redundant data.• Secured over $1M through growth and re-implementation of key digital channels.

Lagos

• Drive the formulation of the applications strategy. Lead its execution, working in close collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders• Led the development of implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies. • Ensure that all disaster recovery related applications services and associated dependent infrastructures are up to date and will support the business in the unlikely event of an invocation. Ensure that these are tested regularly in line with the plan• Translating functional requirements into technical requirement and design.• Manage and deliver the applications services in line with global best practices based on SDLC• Led the creation or evolution of the system development function/program.• Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's IT strategies.• Led the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context.• Led analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.• Revising and debugging programs to fix problems or enhance system performance.• Providing procedural and code documentation on assigned sub systems, and functional documentation of business systems.• Establish technical standards that will ensure a highly available and secure technology environment. Ensure adherence to the standards.• Database modelling and design• Consult with infrastructure development project teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.• Monitor project/programme timelines, milestones, budget and resource usage to ensure delivery to plan and budget. Pro-actively manage deviations

Lagos

• Led the development of implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies. • Translating functional requirements into technical requirement and design.• Led the creation or evolution of the system development function/program.• Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's IT strategies.• Led the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context.• Led analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.• Revising and debugging programs to fix problems or enhance system performance.• Providing procedural and code documentation on assigned sub systems, and functional documentation of business systems• Database modelling and design• Consult with infrastructure development project teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs.• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.

•Translating functional requirements into technical requirement and design.•Responsible for developing and analysing application using core UML design (i.e. Rational Rose, NetBeans UML pack)•Coding new systems working from applications designs and specifications and utilizing standard procedures and techniques•Revising and debugging programs to fix problems or enhance system performance.•Providing procedural and code documentation on assigned sub systems, and functional documentation of business systems•Providing user support•Defining criteria for testing, developing test cases, scenarios to ensure application qualities•Creating test transactions and running component, assembly, and system tests for conformance to standard and adherence to design specification and quality assurance standard.

Nigeria

•Identify clients' needs and objectives by maintaining regular contact, providing comprehensive financial solutions through product and service •Develop and deliver business plan managing revenues, assets and liabilities•Effective communication and delivery of client request•Identify new product opportunities in the marketplace and communicate these to the appropriate product specialists.•Attending to customer request, account opening and profile update.•Identify opportunities to acquire qualifying new customers

Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations, Merit

MBA Project Works: Examining the retail revolution in Africa: Entry of the global hypermarket brands-Wal-Mart in Nigeria

Msc, Computer Systems Engineering

MSc Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering, Second Class Upper