Principal Officer IT Enterprise & Smart City Solutions

Person Specification

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• A minimum period of eight (8) years in relevant work experience and at least three (3) years in a supervisory role;
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or Equivalent qualifications;
  
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent qualification from recognized institution;
  
• Certification from a recognized professional body;
  
• Management course from a recognized institution;
  
• Membership of a recognized professional body;
  
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in in work performance and results; and
  
• Proficiency in computer applications
  

Person Specification

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• A minimum period of eight (8) years in relevant work experience and at least three (3) years in a supervisory role;
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or Equivalent qualifications;
  
• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent qualification from recognized institution;
  
• Certification from a recognized professional body;
  
• Management course from a recognized institution;
  
• Membership of a recognized professional body;
  
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in in work performance and results; and
  
• Proficiency in computer applications
  

• Manages the development of IT/IoT products and services within the Technopolis.
  
• Oversees and coordinates the formulation and implementation of relevant strategies for commercializing IT Solutions;
  
• Coordinates the formulation and implementation strategies for delivering on the overall IT business objectives;
  
• Oversees the development of software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle;
  
• Facilitates the troubleshooting, debuging and upgrading of existing IT and smart city solutions;
  
• Manages the deployment of customer workloads into the Konza Cloud and increase their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers; and
  
• Oversees the development of business models for ICT solutions such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and applications