AVP, Information Technology

Bahrain

Ref: LP127-1353

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client is one of the leading international insurance Companies. Currently they are looking to hire a AVP, Information Technology to be based in Bahrain.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Implements, oversees the management and maintenance of the infrastructure.
- Oversees troubleshooting, system backups, archiving, and disaster recovery, and provide expert support when necessary.
- Oversees all help desk activities.
- Responds to escalated help desk issues.
- Builds and maintains vendor relationships and manages the purchase of hardware, software products and other IT supplies.
- Ensures company’s assets are maintained responsibly.
- Initiates and implements improvements in all areas of IT.
- Serves as main point of contact on all IT-related matters for all assigned companies.
- Responds/acts on upper-management direction.
- Identifies and provides standards for gathering information for use in trend analysis and reports information to company management.
- Project / manage new information technology initiatives.
- Business Process reengineering.
- Manages the development of IT team by ensuring, when possible, that project tasks are in line with each team member career interests.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
- Adheres to the contents of the Company’s overall internal procedures and policies.
- Miscellaneous tasks within the scope of work, as assigned by the direct manager

Requirements

- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. Master’s degree will be a plus
- Holder of relevant professional qualifications or I.T. certifications is desirable.
- 8 - 10 years’ experience with minimum 5 years as Team Leader.
- Sound technical background and extensive experience in IT is essential.
- MS Office; Computer Literate.
- Data base knowledge and experience minimum 5 years.
- Oracle data base knowledge and experience minimum 5 years.
- Worked in a development environment and is familiar with standard SDLCM including Agile
- Language: English (Fluent). ARABIC is a plus.
- Must have worked in the GCC region
- Insurance background will be a definite plus

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions: