Head, Information Technology

The House of Freedom is a network of Faith-based Non-governmental Organizations. The expressions under house of Freedom include: God Bless Nigeria, The Waterbrook, This Present House(The Dome), Mount Zion, The Green House, The Underground Church, Holy Trinity and Freedom Foundation. Each expression has a unique focus catering to a specific affinity group. The connecting threads through all the expressions is vibrant worship, social reformation and excellence in governance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Head, Information Technology
Job Location: Lagos

Core Working Relationships/Key Stakeholder

• Head, Information Technology, Team Members, Information Technology, All employees of House of Freedom Group

Responsibilities

• Support HOF’s Software Development and application.
• Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business requirements.
• Ensure that the junior developer is able to understand the business context and value of his tasks, as well as how it impacts users.
• Supervise the online streaming for all services, ensuring a seamless flow.
• Prioritize the work of the team to ensure that you’re always working on the task with the highest impact, helping your client to meet their objectives.
• Review code for potential performance issues, reusability, and/or anomalies.
• Supervise and create intuitive, logical and dynamic user interfaces, UI design, and/or programming.
• Supervise the analysis and composition of requirements, design of architectural and component software features, design and implementation of system, design and implementation of test plan, and documentation of final product.
• Lead the team on researching on new technologies that push the boundaries and capabilities of design and provide insight on applying these to the development of software at House of Freedom.
• Act as coach for team member.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related courses.
• At least 6 years working in software development.
• Are active in the technology ecosystem and on github.
• Should be able to adapt to new languages, methodologies, and platforms to meet the needs of the project. Develop applications written in PHP and JavaScript and can work with Node Js, Laravel and CodeIgniter.
• Experience with scaling web based applications and/or distributing mobile and desktop applications.
• Knowledgeable in web server and Linux/Windows administration.
• Proficient in ANY ONE of the following stacks: PHP, MySQL, Javacript /MEAN/PEAN/PERN/MERN, Java/Android
• Have experience leading technical teams using Agile methodologies.
• Innovative, someone who thinks outside the box and see the bigger picture.
• You have a curious mind and love to analyse things with the aim of solving them.
• You have a vibrant personality and communicate clearly, write well.