First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. The Bank has been named "The Best Bank Brand in Nigeria” four times in a row - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - by the globally renowned "The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; and "Most Innovative Bank in Africa” in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2014. FirstBank’s brand purpose is to always put its customers, partners and all stakeholders at the heart of its business, even as it is poised to standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across Sub Saharan Africa, in consonance with its brand vision "To be the partner of first choice in building your future”. Our brand promise is to always deliver the ultimate "gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on FirstBank’s inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position our customers first in every respect.
JOB OBJECTIVE(S)
- Performsthe following key functions at the Digital Innovation Lab:
- Defines and executes a high-level software architecture, including its main components and interfaces.
- Ensures seamless interaction between system components and external systems within and outside the Lab and bank.
- Establishes a clear architectural vision to guide solution development, ensuring mutual understanding among all stakeholders involved in product development.
- Designs the infrastructure that supports solutions from the Lab, collaborating with internal and external teams—Test and Production environments.
- Oversees solution deployment and provides ongoing support for solutions developed by the Digital Innovation Lab.
- Designs, automates, and optimize deployment pipelines for efficient and reliable software delivery.
- Bridges the gap between software development and IT operations, enabling faster, more efficient, and more reliable software deployment.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and review the working architecture to support solutions developed by the Digital Innovation Lab or outsourced to third parties, ensuring the architecture aligns with customer requirements and leverages available technologies.
- Perform solution deployment, support, and maintenance for all Digital Innovation Lab solutions.
- Collaborate with development teams and oversee the entire software development lifecycle.
- Manage and oversee IT systems and networks supporting Digital Innovation Lab solutions, ensuring they meet functionality, performance, resilience, reusability, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints, and trade-offs, in collaboration with the bank’s CIO functions.
- Ensure effective communication of technical requirements to all stakeholders, including business and technical teams, regarding solutions from the Lab.
- Define software engineering standards and ensure successful deployment, seamless operation, and optimal performance.
- Participate in idea-generation sessions, providing guidance on architecture and infrastructure requirements for proposed ideas.
- Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate application deployment
- Implement monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and performance.
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