Group Head, Technology Division

About the job
The Group Head, Technology Division leads and consolidates the Company's entire technology function, spanning presales, engineering, solutions delivery and project management, into a single, cohesive and commercially aligned operating unit. The role sits at the apex of the Company's technology organisation and directly supports the Deputy Managing Director in executing the Company's strategy.

The job holder will unify the Company's technical capabilities across the North and South regions, ensuring consistent solution standards and service delivery excellence on every opportunity the Company pursues, and will build and sustain a high-performing technology and project division.

The position carries direct accountability for the technical quality and commercial viability of every solution the Company sells, and for the full delivery of every project the Company executes.

Duties

• Lead the Technology Division as a single, integrated operating unit, consolidating presales, service delivery and project management under one leadership structure.
• Translate the Company's corporate strategy into divisional operating plans, workstream priorities and measurable annual targets for each function within the division.
• Define and enforce technology standards, solution reference architectures and delivery methodologies that apply uniformly across the North and South regions.
• Chair the weekly Technology Divisional review with all direct reports, tracking presales pipeline health, delivery milestones, project status and service delivery KPIs.
• Provide strategic oversight to the regional presales Team Leads in the North and South regions.
• Ensure consistent solution design standards, pricing discipline, and proposal and presentation quality across every regional presales engagement, eliminating variability between the North and South.
• Approve high-value and strategically significant solution architectures before client submission, enforcing commercial viability and technical defensibility.
• Drive the development of the Company's national Solutions Playbook, standardising bundled solutions across cloud, cybersecurity, data centre, networking and enterprise applications.
• Arbitrate escalations between regional presales teams and sales divisions on resource allocation, solution direction and OEM selection.
• Lead the Project Management function, ensuring every project in the Company's portfolio is delivered on time, within budget, within scope and to the client's acceptance standards.
• Establish and enforce project delivery methodologies, governance frameworks, risk management protocols and client acceptance criteria across all engagements.
• Monitor delivery performance across the project portfolio through weekly reporting, intervening early on at-risk engagements before they escalate into client issues.
• Drive post-project reviews and lessons-learned processes that institutionalise delivery discipline and feed improvements back into solution design and bid pricing.
• Ensure seamless handover between presales, project delivery and post-deployment support, eliminating the drop-off points that erode client satisfaction.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing Technology Division across all functional areas, with particular focus on retaining and growing scarce technical talent.
• Set clear performance targets with HR, and agree review cadences and development pathways for each Team Lead and functional head reporting into the division.
• Drive the Knowledge Academy and divisional training programmes covering OEM technologies, solutions selling, proposal writing, project management and customer technology presentations.
• Conduct quarterly capability reviews across the division, identifying skills gaps and investing in targeted certification, training and recruitment to close them.
• Establish succession plans for every critical role in the division, reducing the Company's exposure to the loss of any single individual.
• Report weekly to the Deputy Managing Director, with the Managing Director copied, on divisional performance, including pipeline health, project delivery status, OEM relationships and service delivery KPIs.
• Serve as senior technical adviser to the Executive on complex client engagements, competitive responses and emerging technology opportunities.
• Track market trends, competitive activity and emerging technologies, feeding insights into the Company's annual strategy refresh and solution roadmap.
• Represent the Company externally at industry events, OEM summits, major client engagements and technology partner forums as required.

Person Specification

• B.Sc / B.Eng / HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline.
• MBA, M.Sc or senior-level professional certifications in relevant fields (e.g. CCIE, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CISSP, TOGAF, PMP, PgMP) strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 20 years' progressive experience in the ICT industry, with at least 8 years in leadership-level technology roles managing multifunctional divisions.
• Demonstrable track record of leading large-scale technology functions covering presales, service delivery, project management, enterprise systems integration and ICT solutions.
• Prior experience operating in, or leading technology functions within, the Nigerian or West African ICT market, with established relationships across major OEMs, enterprise clients and public sector institutions.
• Proven ability to build, scale and retain high-performing technology divisions in competitive talent markets.
• Experience operating at senior management level, representing the technology function to senior stakeholders including shareholders, regulators and major client executives.

Work Location: In person