Job Title: Team Lead, Program Manager
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Description
- Provide leadership and governance for the delivery of assigned IT programs and projects, ensuring execution within approved scope, time, cost, and quality parameters.
- Accountable for program-level planning, execution oversight, risk management, and delivery assurance across multiple initiatives.
- Standardize and enforce project management practices, ensuring consistent reporting, proactive risk management, and continuous development of project management capability within the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of assigned technology programs and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and business priorities.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, architecture, QA, operations, and vendors) to deliver solutions in an incremental and value-driven manner.
- Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and business stakeholders to ensure product backlogs are clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned to business outcomes.
- Drive program planning and execution, ensuring initiatives are delivered within agreed timelines, quality standards, and budget parameters.
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and impediments across initiatives, escalating critical issues where necessary.
- Provide clear executive visibility on delivery progress, milestones, and risks through structured reporting and governance forums.
- Ensure effective stakeholder alignment across business units, technology teams, and external partners.
- Lead and mentor delivery managers and project leads, fostering a strong Agile delivery culture and continuous improvement in delivery practices.
- Ensure delivered solutions meet required quality standards and are successfully transitioned to IT operations and support teams.
Requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, driving results with initiative and accountability.
- Strong understanding of IT strategy and business strategy alignment.
- Expertise in program and project planning, execution, risk management, and delivery assurance.
- Ability to identify organizational IT requirements, develop actionable plans, and manage associated changes effectively.
- Experience with enterprise system implementations and understanding of business process impacts.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP) and Agile frameworks, including Scrum.
- Working knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Experience in managing budgets, vendor contracts, and delivery-related costs is an added advantage.
- Effective communication and reporting
- Leadership, Coaching and supervisory skills.
Qualification & Experience
Mandatory:
- Bachelor’s Degree in technical field
- Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Professional Scrum Master – PSM, or equivalent)
- 10+ years of IT program or project delivery experience, including leading large-scale programs and digital transformation initiatives.
- Proven track record in managing projects or programs using iterative delivery approaches, including Agile frameworks such as Scrum.
- Competency in project management tools and methodologies
- Strong understanding of business processes and IT systems
Desirable:
- Experience supporting large-scale or highly regulated financial institution
- Master’s Degree in relevant field
- Other relevant professional qualifications.
Application Closing Date
17th March, 2026; 11:59pm.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.