Career Opportunities at Azenia

Job brief

Reporting to Head Data Science, the Senior BI developer will be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of new BI reports and dashboards using Power BI and other visualization tools. The employee will be working closely with data analysts, data scientists and data engineers on various projects including designing reports and dashboards that fulfil user needs.

The role holder will be highly organised, pro-activity, and enthusiastic towards assigned projects.

S/He will be responsible for leading a group of data analyst within the team towards the delivery of agreed business intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities 

• Engage internal stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Engages external stakeholders such as Microsoft to conduct trainings and facilitate the resolution of niche BI development issues
• Ensure positive stakeholder engagements throughout the lifecycle of a task or project
• Lead data analyst and oversee their developments works ensuring the data presented is accurate, meets visualization best practices and is aesthetically pleasing to the eye
• Develop and maintain BI applications and dashboards
• Manage administration of business intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI, Tableau etc
• Support data analyst, data scientist and data engineers, ensuring proper execution of their duties and alignment with the Company objectives.
• Provide BI expertise and responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business intelligence solutions.
• Create mockups, prototypes and develop visualization requirements by working with business teams & users
• Work with the Data warehouse platform development team to understand the reporting sources to facilitate real-time reporting to operate in both analytical and operational capacities
• Work with visualizing structured and unstructured data sets
• Scale developments of BI solutions to other countries
• Manage and support migration of objects (dimensions, measures, hierarchies, reports, workbooks, dashboards, scorecards, savings & utilization, etc) from development to production environments
• Develop and format stored procedures in T-SQL
• Communicate with non-technical employees to define report request and limitations
• Ensure proper data governance and quality across all developments

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Statistics, Software Engineering, Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field.
• 5-7 years experience in BI developments with a preference for the finance industry
• Should have excellent hands-on development experience with Power BI, and Microsoft tools such as word, power point and excel
• Should have advanced level SQL/TSQL experience and able to implement the business logic through stored procedures.
• Skilled in handling multiple deadline driven assignments with the ability to initiate, supervise and complete projects and assignments with minimal supervision
• A broad exposure to various Business Intelligence platforms. Position requires excellent technical and communication skills. The ability to manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously is a requirement of this position. Very detailed oriented.
• Willingness to learn, be open minded to new ideas and different opinions yet knowing when to stop, analyze, and reach a decision
• Some basic knowledge of data science and data engineering is preferred
• The candidate must also have a proven and successful experience track record of leading high-performing data analyst teams
• Ms Office/Software: Outstanding skills in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, which will all be necessary for the creation of both visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations, for senior data science management, executives, and stakeholders.
• The candidate must also demonstrate exceptionally good skills in SQL server reporting services, analysis services, PowerBI, integration services, or any other data visualization tools.
• Technological Savvy/Analytical Skills: Technologically adept and especially demonstrate an understanding of database and computer software.
• Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate for this position will be a team-builder, be result-oriented, be proactive and self-driven requiring minimal supervision, be open and welcoming to change, be a creative and strategic thinker, have innovative problem-solving skills, be highly organized, have an ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks prioritize and meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate calmness in times of uncertainty and stress.
• People Skills: a people person who is able to form strong, lasting, and meaningful bonds with others people. This will make him an approachable and trustworthy individual who junior personnel readily follow and who senior Data and Analytics executives and stakeholders trust and who’s insights they give credit to, making execution of his duties much easier.

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Job Purpose

The objective of this role is to define and manage Information Technology and Operations Financial accounting in Equity Group.

The strategic roles include:

• Budget planning encompassing capital, operational expenditure, and staff costs amongst others
• Provide budget execution related reports to stakeholders as required
• Breaking down IT costs into defined categories e.g. consumption based (variable technology usage: Telecommunication, Data center), project based (initiatives) and infrastructure based (fixed cost: network infrastructure)
• Identifying and Containing IT cost drivers.
• Participate in evaluation of potential suppliers using developed and agreed criteria to support alignment and understanding of the expectations and requirements of engagement.
• Managing software licenses to maintain the optimal number of licenses and support business requirements. Ensure that the number of licenses owned is sufficient to cover the installed software in use.
• Develop financial models and criteria used to evaluate alternative IT investments.
• Regularly review the overall asset base to identify ways to optimize value in line with business needs.
• Identify assets that are critical in providing service capability.
• Maximize their reliability and availability to support business needs.
• Develop a model for continuous Cost optimization within the group Operation and Technology.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitoring 3rd party invoicing and deliverables as to contract adherence suggesting corrective actions.
• Monitoring budget-execution levels reporting any variances to Senior management among other bank stakeholders
• Monitoring and report on the performance of selected vendors to ensure delivery in line with contractual obligations and performance metrics set in the contracts.
• Liaise with Procurement to ensure prompt IT Services Contracts renewal.
• Monthly reporting on IT budget performance
• Liaising with procurement partners to review, report on and revise contractual agreements as necessary.
• Managing the risks, Audit and compliance items related to IT Asset management.
• Maintain an up-to-date, accurate record of all IT assets that are required to deliver services and that are owned or controlled by the organization with an expectation of future benefit (including resources with economic value, such as hardware or software) processes, costs, and budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Masters preferred.
• Five (5+) years’ experience in IT Financial Management role preferably in a financial services’ setting.
• 10+ years of IT and business/industry work experience including IT Financial Management. Experience in financial services preferred.
• Experience with ISO 20,000 IT Finance management
• Experience with IT Asset Life Cycle Management
• Very Sound in IT Project Finance and value realization
• Experience in IT Service Charge Back and Cost reallocation
• Experience in Budget Planning, execution, and Tracking
• Experience with environments containing multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Experience working/leading projects executed using Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
• Strong organizational and leadership skills
• Demonstrable communication skills – ability to convey complex design solutions in user friendly language to senior non-technical
  stakeholders

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As an ideal candidate, you’ll be a leader with previous managerial experience and blockchain technology expert. You’ll have proven experience overseeing operations, and potentially human resources, finance, and communications departments, too.

Previous experience in gaming and blockchain technology will be critical for the role and an openness to learn new tech will be important for the success of the candidate especially with our Blockchain focus.

Objectives of this Role

• Overall responsible for the success and long-term vision of the organization, as the point person for external engineering and technical work supporting the highest-level relationships with the partners.
• Lead teams which conduct rapid end-to-end proof of concepts, build prototypes and implement specific software and solutions using blockchain methodologies.
• Manage some of the largest and most complex technical initiatives by assembling and leading teams to plan and implement effective strategies to create scalable, pioneering, and future facing technology solutions across the organization's partnerships
• Drive research, conduct financial and strategic analyses to support the growth of the business.
• Build and maintain a deep professional network with companies, investors, industry experts and other stakeholders in the gaming, block-chain related (NFT, crypto currency) space.
• Support development of overall Gaming product strategy and blockchain-related opportunities (e.g., non-fungible tokens, cryptocurrency)
• Develop relationships in key markets with private and public sectors in gaming and regulators in other sectors related as well.
• Drive licenses when required and various partnerships.
• Seek out opportunities for expansion and growth by developing new business relationships.
• Develop, implement, and maintain budgetary and resource allocation plans.
• Delegate responsibilities to the best employees to perform them while enforcing all policies, procedures, standards, specifications, guidelines, training programs, and cultural values.

Skills and Qualifications

• Proven experience in a managerial role
• Experience in Gaming and technology
• Strong understanding of the African gaming landscape
• Proven ability to develop and maintain financial plans
• Good understanding of Product development and business metrics
• Good understand of P/L and how to drive growth.
• Self-driven and self-motivated starter.
• Out of the Box thinker and problem solver.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Pan African relationships.
• 5+ years’ experience leading and managing engineering teams and coordinating at highest levels with hands-on engineering experience and understanding through all points of the development lifecycle
• 1+ years’ experience working within blockchain technologies, including gaming design, web3, blockchain systems, NFT/ DAOs and smart contracts
• Experience growing teams and designing organizations to maximize long term impact
• Experience understanding a technology/customer/business to recognize business opportunities, long term technology trends, etc.
• Expertise in managing people/portfolio to truly advance technology in the most creative ways, in the most complex and dynamic environments
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

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The ideal candidate will be extremely proactive, organized, adaptive, and reliable, a master of crypto, with an understanding of blockchain and outstanding communication skills, a knack for developing personal relationships, and proven experience building communities. 

Previous experience in gaming, e-sports and technology will be critical for the role and an openness to learn new tech will be important for the success of the candidate, especially with our Blockchain focus. 

 Any prior engagement in the blockchain space will be highly welcome.  

Objectives of this Role 

• Build and execute on the community strategy, roadmap, and success metric. 
• Develop and implement incentive programs to promote engagement and growth of the community network. 
• Build, Grow and engage global online communities across different channels to drive positive sentiment towards the organization. 
• Continuously monitor our social media channels, and engage meaningfully with both our community and the wider crypto community as a representative of the organization.
• Help scale and manage a team on projects, community moderators and managers 
• Define the community roadmap, including realistic yet ambitious KPIs. 
• Actively seek out and organize potential marketing opportunities, including collaborations, featured in media outlets, speaking opportunities, or advertising opportunities, and maintain these relationships.
• Create strategies for interacting with various blockchain, crypto and communities to grow our following 

Skills and Qualifications 

• The ability to work autonomously and plan, create and develop communities by yourself 
• 5+ years of experience in community management and building  
• Passionate about web3, blockchain and NFTs, crypto. 
• Strong understanding of the African gaming landscape: E-sports 
• Published content in tech or crypto 
• Proven experience in Media management funds.
• A proven ability to build and manage a large online global community and audience.

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We are looking for a data driven commercial leader who is intimate with the major global gaming suppliers, operators and market trends, understands what games, product features, and experiences resonate with various online gaming demographics and is passionate about developing Sportsbook / iGaming / Retail cross-sell. 

Any prior engagement in the blockchain space will be highly welcome.  

Objectives of this Role 

• Managing  all aspects of  company  properties  including operations  staffing and  customer satisfaction  
• Managing all operating costs  budgets and  forecasting to ensure that organization meets the set goals 
• Own the P&L for all of the organization and the Score's iGaming  platforms 
• Work with functional department heads in Sportsbook, Product, Marketing and Finance to develop and set forward looking strategy for the gaming business 
• Define short-term and long-term market strategies for growing PI's & the Score’s igaming business 
• Commercial negotiations, games roadmap release prioritization, product enhancements, with 3rd party suppliers 
• Lead a gaming operations team responsible for the day-to-day activities of the  customer profiling, promotions, bonuses, Omni channel cross sell, configuration set up, internal product / roadmap.
• Identify opportunities to drive market share for all online gaming products by partnering with key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Product Team to identify the best-in-class features and functionalities for all gaming products 
• Collaborate with the Marketing Team to construct and execute on a CRM strategy that is focused on acquisition, retention, reactivation of players on all platforms 
• Develop performance metrics, monitor trends within the gaming industry, and make recommendations to drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and report on KPIs, goals, and metrics, to show strategic impact 
• Work closely with product to develop differentiated product functionality based on market needs and customer feedback.
• Identify key audience segment and personas and understand relevant business challenges for each. Validate solutions against audience growth, engagement, retention and quality criteria.
• Enhance the use of existing technologies and drive scalability and stability 

Desired Skills  

• Proven experience in a managerial role 
• Experience in Gaming and technology 
• Strong understanding of the African gaming landscape 
• Proven ability to develop and maintain financial plans 
• Good understanding of Product development and business metrics 
• Good understand of P/L and how to drive growth.  
• Self-driven and self-motivated starter 
• Out of the Box thinker and problem solver 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years running the P&L of a major online igaming, with 4 years of overall Gaming work experience 
• Experience in fast growth companies, startups and/or scaled environments especially in online gaming 
• Unrelenting passion for gaming and maintain a strong POV on the nexus of online gambling, gaming and technology 
• You are data obsessed and have demonstrable experience of working on critical, highly visible projects and thriving even when given a short timeline 
• Sports betting, interactive gaming, or daily fantasy sports experience is preferred

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Core Purpose of the Job

The Security Architect: Information Systems is responsible for delivering technical security solution designs, reference architecture designs and technical standards for Information Systems within the EQUITY Group in accordance with the enterprise security designs and enterprise business and technology architecture.

Key Job Responsibilities

GIS Architecture

• Develop information security systems architectures (e.g., people, processes, technology).
• Define systems reference architecture to manage threats, monitor implementation & compliance.
• Assist with the refinement of EQUITY Security reference architecture and test the architecture against pilot implementations and ongoing OPCO implementations.
• Obtain inputs and validate the EQUITY security reference architecture with key EQUITY partners.
• Responsible for the design of systems architectures for group wide risk mitigation of key risk areas including standardized security architecture, security monitoring, and vulnerability management.

Design architectures for specific technical solutions.

• Collaborate closely with the Technology and Business Architecture to produce technical security solution designs.
• Determine a holistic view of security requirements by evaluating current security operations and requirements; researching information security standards; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues and preparing cost estimates.
• Evaluate outsourced / third-party technologies and hosting environments to ensure they provide adequate protection for the processing, transmission, and storage of EQUITY’s information.
• Manage the development of security architectural and development standards for all components of key application stacks (OS, DB, Middleware, Web etc.).
• Ensure a standardized and aligned approach driven from Group Information Security for security architecture across EQUITY including all Markets/ Subsidiaries.

Budgets

• Assist with management of divisional budgets in line with business objectives and facilitate forecasting.
• Manage project initiative budgets in line with business objectives; and
• Drive initiatives that will ensure that the “cost of operations” is reduced, in line with a least cost operating strategy stemming from the business drivers.

Operational Delivery

• Work with the Head of Enterprise Architecture to develop and implement the overall information security architecture requirements and framework, overarched by the business risk strategy.
•  Responsible for the development and implementation of the information security architecture roll-out definition and actualization via third parties.
• Roadmap definitions for security systems by monitoring security environment; identifying security gaps; evaluating and implementing enhancements.

Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and leadership ensuring future focus and current efficiency.
• Ensure skill transfer for staff development, motivation, and business continuity.
• Identify staff training and development needs and implement necessary actions.

Minimum & Preferred Requirements

• Engineering/ Information Science Degree; Masters in Information Science is preferred
• 5-9 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology (specifically security)
• Experience in designing and implementing organization wide information security systems architecture
• Experience in managing and implementing large scale information security projects
• Experience working in Africa and Middle East and have a grasp of political, social, infrastructure and integrity challenges
• Advanced working understanding of the information technology environment of a bank and/or a telecom company
• Certifications: 
  • CISSP, CISM, CGEIT certifications or equivalent.
  • Other preferred certifications are: TOGAF, SABSA
• Fluent in English; French will be an added advantage

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Job Purpose

As an IT Project Manager, you will deliver technology solutions by managing projects throughout their full life cycle; you will lead projects related to large-scale digital initiatives for an enterprise-level organization. In this role, you will be responsible for gathering resources, generating schedules, establishing teams to fulfil initiatives; you will interface with project members, vendors, managers, executives, and stakeholders to manage risk and ensure projects are completed on time and under budget.

Responsibilities

• Leads planning and management of small to large cross-domain initiatives and activities, including conducting analyses, developing the project and change management plans, and driving execution. 
• Oversee requirements management processes including requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and ongoing scope management. 
• Owns project planning, work breakdown structure (WBS) / Scheduling, financial management, and quality and performance management. 
• Develop, produce, and deliver executive presentations, program updates, and set and articulate goals and timelines to executive leadership. 
• Drive implementing the full software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Ensure adequate and constant communications management and reporting, utilizing multiple channels including daily standups, regularly scheduled steerco meetings as well as standard reports to include ongoing updates, monthly progress reports etc.  
• Coordinate with other project teams and stakeholders to gather project status, performance and communicate policy where required. 
• Risk Management activities - work with the risk leadership, individual project managers, 3rd party vendors, cybersecurity staff, and other external stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate risks.
• Planning and advising Scrum implementations within the organization.
• Removing barriers between stakeholders and Scrum Teams.
• Helping find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
• Assist the Product owner to understand the Agile way of working through training and achieving the vision.
• Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team’s progress; and,
• Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.

Required Skills/ Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional project management experience on large (budget) projects
• PMI or PMP certification preferred.
• Scrum master certification is a plus
• Must demonstrate an understanding of financial services.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience is required.
• Demonstrated successful mastery of major components of the Project Lifecycle Development in the context of major systems implementations.
• Demonstrated mastery on project scheduling on MS Project is a must.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Ability to organize and direct quality time-bound work efforts in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding client relationship management skills.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Must have experience managing large scale projects and budgets budgets exceeding $1M+.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms.
• Comfortable working with executive management.
• Demonstrated ability to drive crucial conversations across stakeholders of varying seniority.
• Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Kanban, SaFe, LeSS etc.)
• Should have worked with numerous collaboration tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, Confulence, Slack, Teams etc) ·
• Outstanding interpersonal, leadership, mentorship, excellent communication, and facilitation skills to establish and maintain excellent working relationships in a corporate environment
• Ability to analyze, think quickly and to resolve conflict & problem solve.
• Knowledgeable in techniques to fill in gaps in the scrum and to be self-motivated
• Ability to determine what is scrum and what is not plus adapting to a changing environment