Afreximbank Assistant Manager Innovation and Product Development Cairo Egypt

Responsibilities:

• Digital Product Development and Management
• Have responsibility for cloud product development and management and support the Head of Innovation with the implementation of cloud first strategy in the product evolution and delivering of digital services that connect multiple digital platforms and ecosystems to drive customer satisfaction speedy service delivery and ensure repeat business while adding tremendous business value to new and existing customers.
• Will support development of APIs as a product to customers and manage API microapps and programs underpin by Cloud Services ensuring the product aligns with industry standards and best practices in building APIs.
• As a cloud product development specialist at Strategy and Innovation department you will shape the digital products services and features leveraging a combination of capabilities and tools; cloud services and infrastructure agile scrum methodology and others to design and/ or develop worldclass digital products that are gamechanging.
• Work as a member of our product development team to synthesize and articulate customer needs focusing on developing new or enhancing existing market opportunities using cloud infrastructure and native services preferably AWS.
• Support development and management of digital products ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
• Support product roadmap defining and prioritizing features based on customer needs business objectives and market trends.
• Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams including Information Technology Digital Solutions Markets Communication and Business teams to deliver highquality products on time and within budget.
• Oversee the AWS cloud environment including setting up and managing test cloud environments deployment strategies and continuous monitoring for product development and sandbox for innovation with ecosystem partners.
• Coordinate with IT to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient and reliable deployment of applications.
• Ensure implementation of best practices in cloud management to optimise cost performance and security.
• Coordinate with IT teams to establish and maintain robust scalable and secure cloud architectures.
• Advocate for cloudfirst approaches providing guidance and training to teams on cloud product development and methodologies.
• Be a member of product development team using agile scrum methodology (or other frameworks/ models) drafting product research requirements prioritizing features metrics analysis authoring user stories and acceptance criteria capability development testing launch and collaborating with scrum team members as required.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or business administration Finance MIS or relevant degree in related areas from a recognized University is acceptable. Graduate degree is required. Professional qualifications/certifications in Product Management and/ or Cloud will be considered.
• 5 years’ experience including 34 years’ experience in product development cloud services cloud apps with a strong focus on digital products in the banking/ financial services fintech and consulting industry.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture cloudnative development and cloud product security best practices.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud products including S3 ECS RDS Redshift cognito and containers.
• Understanding of DevOps methodologies CI/CD processes and automated testing.
• Experience in setting up and managing test cloud environments and deploying largescale digital products services and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of any or combination of innovation and product development methodology or models; Agile StageGate Lean Startup Design Thinking etc.
• Knowledge of any or combination of the following innovation and product development tools and techniques; Voice of Customer (VoC) techniques netnography mind maps lean canvass EPIC story boards abd stories business model canvass pretotypes prototypes and wireframes.
• Software background required with a deep understanding of digital ecosystems.
• Complete understanding of the entire Product Development Life Cycle and software development/ programming experience is a plus.
• Broad experience in Digital implementation methodologies process and project management.
• Expertise leading the product support of largescale Digital Product architectures.
• Deep knowledge of digital offerings.
• Proven technical product leadership experience.
• Outstanding interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to identify the source of the issue research potential solutions and implement a solution that satisfies the customer.
• A collaborator with demonstrated multitasking and time management skills.
• Excellent analytical organizational and decisionmaking skills.
• ability to communicate and function in a culturally diverse environment.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of the Bank’s other working languages (French Portuguese and Arabic) are an added advantage.
• Must have good report writing skills.
• Ability to interact with senior officials of banks corporate entities and governments.

Contractual information:

• Permanent
• Willing and able to relocate to Egypt for the opportunity
• Suitably qualified candidates from all African nationalities are encouraged to apply

Caleb Ebrahim

Recruitment Consultant

Finance Fintech & IT

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