Job Description

• Reports To: Director, Solution Delivery
• Department: Solution Delivery
• Job Location: Head Office- Accra

• Collaborate with technical leaders and peers’ sales team to develop business strategy.
• Manager performance goals and business needs of the organization.
• Plan, define and review projects for proper implementation and migration to Production mode.
• Plan, develop and implement new systems and ensure proper functioning of existing systems.
• Resolve any issues and take preventive actions and maintain project logs, documents and status reports.
• Evaluate performance of team members, provide feedbacks and prepare appraisals.
• Coordinate with management in developing long term plans for application development.
• Collaborate with application management on defining project objectives, resource planning, allocation and support for projects.
• Work with Information technology managers to ensure system compatibility across the company.
• Lead and participate in all phases of application development lifecycle.
• Ensure that expenses are within budget limits as per company standards.
• Ensure implementation of company procedures and policies and act as a medium of communication between Business and Technical Team.
• Manage cost and quality improvement activities by implementing new effective processes.
• Communicate with internal customers regularly and build a strong relationship and manage escalations and provide better customer support services.
• Collaborating with management, departments and customers to identify end-user requirements and specifications
• Designing algorithms and flowcharts to create new software programs and systems
• Compiling and assessing user feedback to improve application performance
• Ensure secure coding is embedded at every stage of the development cycle
• Ensure application delivered places Brassica at the top of the competition
• Ensure application security conforms to Brassica's Security, Compliance and Audit policy
• Ensure effective/efficient turnaround time concerning application launch
• Work closely with the R&D Team to determine expected functionality for a specific product
• Ensure Brassica adapts to new innovative ways of developing solutions to drive the company’s strategic goals

Required Skills or Experience

• A post-graduate degree in FinTech business-related course is a plus.
• Minimum of 5+ years in both client-side and server-side application development (mobile, web, webservices, etc.)
• Proficiency in popular coding languages including but not limited to PHP, Python, Java and .net as well as frameworks or systems such as AngularJS and Git
• Excellent knowledge of the software development life cycle
• Demonstrate a good understanding of algorithms
• Knowledge of Object-Relational Mapping frameworks
• Familiarity with software development frameworks (Agile frameworks preferred).
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently or as part of a team
• Has good problem-solving abilities.
• Able to troubleshoot issues and determine the cause of a plan’s success or failure
• Keeps up to date with changes in technology that would affect new application development.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Able to meet deadlines.
• Familiar with the payments, banking, FinTech industry.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent communication and people skills

Competencies Required (Skills & Abilities)

• Applications development managers must possess tremendous technical expertise in areas like applications development and have a well-rounded understanding of complex business and technical concepts.
• They should have the analytical skills needed to identify and troubleshoot issues that arise within applications and use problem-solving skills to determine the best solutions for these issues.
• Strong decision-making skills to ensure ability to determine how best to utilize applications within an organization.
• Quality leadership skills to effectively motivate and instruct personnel to complete necessary tasks.
• Ability to simplify complex solutions, strategically plan and deploy solutions.
• High sense of responsibility with good attention to detail.
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects on time and within budget.
• Confident and engaging personality.
• Customer Experience-Centric.
• Research and Development Oriented Personality
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly build relationships across all departments and levels internally and externally
• A track record of successful delivery working across multiple teams, on multiple products in a fast paced, market driven environment