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OnePipe Raises $3.5 Million in Nigeria to Expand Its Embedded Finance Offering

Fintech

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November 24, 2021

OnePipe Raises $3.5 Million in Nigeria to Expand Its Embedded Finance Offering

OnePipe, a Nigerian Fintech company, has raised $3.5 million to expand its embedded financing product.

Fintech API infrastructure players came into the African technology scene last year, whereby they ushered in Plaid-like services to businesses and developers. The attention on these new companies, especially from venture capitalists moved into this year, each player raised large seed to Series A rounds.

OnePipe, a Fintech API company with a different agenda from the others joins the list today, they raised $3.5 million seed in order to double down on their embedded finance offering.

Co-lead investor in OnePipe’s $950,000 pre-seed round last year, African impact-focused VC Atlantica Ventures, also co-led this current seed round, along with Tribe Capital and V&R Associates.

New investors like Saison Capital, Norrsken (the fund of Klarna founder Niklas Adalberth), The Fund, and Two Culture Cap also participated. Already existing investors such as Chris Adelsbach, Techstars, Acquity, P1, Ingressive, DFS Lab, and Raba followed with new checks, as well as other angelic investors.

OnePipe’s fore plan was to create an API gateway that will connect banks and financial technologies under a uniform standard, an initiative that would allow the company to perform core open banking, but Ope Adeoye, Founder and CEO that describes himself as the company’s chief plumber, on a call with TechCrunch, said that upon continuous integration with financial institutions, it has become clear that the company needs to pivot, since it wasn’t generating a lot of demand cycles.

Having already struck partnerships with a few banks, OnePipe decided to take a step back before plunging into the world of embedded finance.

OnePipe is currently in partnership with six banks due to the fact that, unlike open banking and data aggregation plays, where a company needs to collaborate with almost all the banks in the country they operate, it is not necessarily the same with companies that offer embedded financing.

The CEO had said, “The caveat goes like this, the moment you make a positioning play for banking as a service, all you really need is one partner bank that lets you go deep because the embedded finance (offering) is about the depth and not breadth.”

“If you go for data aggregation or open banking in general, then you are going for breadth, not depth. So, on our side, we said we’d rather go with tier two and tier three bands, where once you describe the concept to them, they get it. It powers their growth and is more valuable to them, unlike other larger financial institutions”, Ope Adeoye said.

Running API infrastructure on behalf of these partner banks and assisting them in getting them monetized, OnePipe works with non-financial institutions to launch and double-sell a lot of financial services such as credit, accounts, and payments within their offerings.

As such, an FMCG startup, for example, can plug into a bank’s API being managed by OnePipe and begin to issue accounts to customers, this will allow them to make payments through those accounts and access credits when they need them.

Nigeria-Based Busha Secures $4.2m Seed Funding to Scale its Crypto Exchange

Crypto

Abidemi Ogunyemi-Aderibigbe

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November 24, 2021

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Nigeria-Based Busha Secures $4.2m Seed Funding to Scale its Crypto Exchange

Nigeria-based digital platform Busha secures $4.2m seed funding to scale its crypto exchange. Busha app which helps with the purchase, sales, and storage of cryptocurrency via its mobile app has raised a seed funding of $4.2M in a recent round led by Jump Capital

The Nigeria-based digital platform Busha was founded in 2018 by Michael Adeyeri (CEO) and Chief Product Officer (CPO) Moyo Sodipo. The platform which currently holds about 2-10 employees claims to have over 200,000 users and looking to onboard one million Africans into the cryptocurrency economy.

“Our mission is to onboard the next one million Africans into the cryptocurrency economy. We have seen the significant difference in the financial freedom that Cryptocurrency can make in the lives of our over 200,000 users, and we are strongly motivated to expand across the continent,” said Michael Adeyeri, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) at Busha.

The startup having scaled across Nigeria and its recently secured $4.2m seed funding will aid to deepen its market positioning across West Africa and the Globe. The round also featured Cadenza Ventures, Blockwall Capital, CMT Digital, Greenhouse Capital, Raba Capital, and other investors.

Busha recently launched a revamped version of its app which has features such as minimum purchases for as low as 50 cents for a more inclusive offering, one-click limit orders, and automated recurring buys.

The Nigeria-based digital platform Busha intends to launch a savings feature that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrency from next month and early next year. Also, it will allow users to spend cryptocurrencies at selected online and offline retail outlets. The latter is under development in partnership with SureGifts, a gift card company.

With the rapid adoption of Cryptocurrency in Africa, the inclusive offering from Busha is right in line with the company’s stated mission which is to make crypto accessible to a broader population and reduce entry barriers.

“We take pride in being the first in the market to introduce laudable and tangible innovations such as instant payouts and 24/7 human customer service,” said co-founder and chief product officer Moyo Sodipo.

“This funding will go a long way in empowering us to do more, improve on our security, and take a definitive leadership position in our target markets.”

What the Nigeria-based digital platform Busha seeks to offer with its platform will surely appeal to young Nigerians who are increasingly trading crypto in a bid to have better financial mobility and create wealth opportunities amid the harsh economic realities.

For the records, there are over a million registered accounts from Nigeria on Paxful, an international peer-to-peer P2P bitcoin marketplace. That accounts for more than 25% of the platform’s customer base, with Nigeria being the second to the US by the volume of bitcoin which is being traded.

Peter Johnson, partner at Jump Capital also stated that “We believe Nigeria and the African continent are one of the most promising places for cryptocurrency in other to create room for significant impact in the financial freedom to millions of individuals”

With more Africans getting involved in the crypto realm, Busha plans to leverage on the resources from its new investors to offer “market-beating prices and returning more value to its customers while maintaining proactive compliance and regulation,” the company said.

“We are happy to partner with the Busha team to continue to enhance their market-leading product offering.”

South Africa’s Mobiz Nabs $4m to Expand Personalized SMS Marketing Into the US

Infotech

Hassan Barakat

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November 24, 2021

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South Africa’s Mobiz nabs $4m to expand personalized SMS marketing into the US. In 2014 two passionate digital marketers with a wealth of mobile experience founded Mobiz and introduced an innovative way of thinking about mobile marketing.

Mobiz has taken mobile communication and engagement to the next level by building a new technology that effortlessly incorporates hyper-personalization into dynamic landing pages.

HAVAC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech, and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund have all invested in its pre-Series A round of $ 4 million.

The funding comes as the company prepares to grow into the United States and increase its marketing, sales, and account management activities. A portion of the funds will be utilized to hire new employees in South Africa and to support the company’s commercial expansion into the US.

After seven years, the company has over 100 clients, including MultiChoice, Experian, HomeChoice, and New Balance.

According to Mobiz’s website, 98 percent of SMS messages provided by the company are read within three minutes.

The company said that these messages range from offers and specials and loyalty programs to crisis communication and ticket sales.

Mobiz is focusing on offering its service to small and medium businesses after gaining a considerable market share in the South African SMS marketing industry. The intended market, however, is the United States, not the African country where the company started. The company sees potential in the small and medium business sector in the United States, according to Chen, because “its solution is easy to use and fit for the enormous market opportunity in the United States.

We see an opportunity in the way we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa. As a result, we’d like to assist a large number of SMBs in quickly creating stunning client encounters that are tailored at scale and clickable on their platforms. That is our premise, and we are very optimistic that it will be realized.”

According to a survey by Grandview Research, the SMB market in the United States is estimated to reach $12.5 billion by 2025, with a CAGR of 20.3 percent.

Part of this rise, according to Chen, is due to the ineffectiveness of email marketing in the United States (similar to SMS marketing in Africa), where clients are bombarded and spammed.

In the US, however, SMS marketing has more value because users must give permission to receive regular SMS messages from marketers and businesses. Customers who give them access genuinely want to engage, which is good news for these businesses.

“This has changed the way marketers think about things now that they no longer believe that more is better.” Now it’s about connecting to the individuals who truly want to buy from you, investing more money to acquire them in a consent-based manner, and then engaging with a very high return investment in the most direct channel, which is SMS,” stated the CEO.

Because of the information obtained from templates used on the platform, small and medium enterprises, such as a coffee shop, can quickly learn which type of coffee 100+ clients prefer. These firms’ conversions, results, sales, and engagement rates all improve as a result of this dynamic and rapid personalization.

The startup is launching this month, with more than 200 beta users in the United States presently using the platform.

Partner at HAVAC Grant Rock, an early backer of the startup, said his firm has been very impressed with Mobiz’s performance in South Africa. However, as the company expands beyond borders, it will have to consider pricing as it competes with incumbents such as Textedly and TextMagic. Its subscription fee starts at $29 per month and increases depending on the number of SMS businesses and marketers want to send.

Chen also mentions that now that the company is fully focused on the US market, plans are in the works to raise a new Series A round in the coming months.

100 Bitcoin African Startups To Benefit Under New Initiative By Binance

Crypto

Abidemi Ogunyemi-Aderibigbe

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November 24, 2021

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100 Bitcoin African Startups To Benefit Under New Initiative By Binance

As a result of the partnership between Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and CV Labs Global Incubation Program on November 23, in Nairobi Kenya, 100 Bitcoin African startups will benefit under the new initiative by Binance.

The program, which aims to drive the adoption of blockchain in Africa and also investment in greater blockchain applicability so as to solve problems and new market creation.

The partnership is looking to invest in 100 Bitcoin African startups over the next four (4) years. It will focus on startups that will be working across fintech, supply chain, healthcare, government sectors, and more as long as it is built on blockchain.

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) is a community-driven effort of community developers and investors and recently achieved a Billion dollars ($1B) growth fund to aid the drive of blockchain and the adoption of cryptocurrency.

Till now, BSC’s generated investment funds have seed-funded more than 55 projects with up to $1M, a round-up of 60 projects have been incubated under the Most Valuable Builder program with more than 200 startups receiving a boost in terms of funds, hackathons, and grants.

CV Labs, the incubator arm of CV VC on the other hand, has already incubated 22 successful global technology teams aiding their success pathway.

The partnership between BSC and CV labs is looking to do greater than they have individually done before in driving the adoption of blockchain in Africa. As Brenton Naicker, head of Business Development & Partnerships for Africa at Binance has rightfully said;

“The show of interest from African startups has been immense, outpacing their global counterparts in terms of applications received for funding. This just reiterates the need for accelerators, incubators, and other support structures for the budding African blockchain ecosystem,”

Obaseki Inaugurates Science, Technology Development Committee

Infotech

Hassan Barakat

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November 24, 2021

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Obaseki inaugurates science, technology development committee, Prof. Kessington Obahiagbon as the chairman.

Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo state, recently inaugurated Obahiagbon as the chairman of the Edo State Scientific, Technology, and Innovation Committee, which is responsible for designing a strategy to make the state science, technology, and innovation hub.

While inaugurating the committee at Government House in Benin City, Obaseki stated that the initiative is part of the government’s attempts to leverage technology to foster growth in many sectors of the state.

“As you are all aware, today’s world is all about technology, and any state or government that fails to capitalize on scientific advancement and knowledge will be left in the dark. The COVID-19 era has demonstrated that technology is critical for any state that wants to endure the pandemic’s dislocations.” Obaseki stated.

We are fortunate to be associated with specialists and pioneers in the field of rapidly advancing science and technology.” We felt these individuals should be brought together as a group to assist us in articulating the direction we should go in terms of constructing a new scientific and technological society.” He added.

Some of the committee’s areas of reference, according to Obaseki, include assisting the state in developing a science, technology, and innovation policy in accordance with the National Policy of Science, Technology, and Innovation.

“The group should also aid the state in formulating a strategy to increase grassroots understanding of science, technology, and innovation.”

“They should help establish a strategy that would make Edo State the national and international hub for science, technology, and innovation.” We can now spread technology across Nigeria if we become a tech hub. The committee should also assist in the development of a plan for the deployment of science, technology, and innovation through public-private partnership collaborations,” he said.

Prof. Obahiagbon responded by thanking Obaseki for the privilege given to the committee to serve the state.

“I assure you that the committee will do everything possible to place the state on the map in terms of science, technology, and innovation,” he stated.

FSD Africa Expands Insurtech Accelerator Program to Ghana and Nigeria

Startups

Abidemi Ogunyemi-Aderibigbe

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November 23, 2021

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FSD Africa Expands Insurtech Accelerator Program to Ghana and Nigeria

FSD Africa is set to launch Insurtech accelerator programs in Ghana and Nigeria by 2022 to promote innovative products which run on micropayment or pay-per-use frameworks emerging under the support of the FSD institution in Africa which will aid the uprise of insurance in the two African markets and beyond.

The launch of Insurtech accelerator programs in West African countries was encouraged due to the introduction of the same program in Kenya earlier this year. The program was in partnership with the Insurance Regulatory Authority, the country’s regulator, and cloud solution provider Tellistic Technology Services.

“At FSD Africa, commitment to the growth of the insurance sector and involvement in grooming the next generation of insurance innovators is of major concern. The insurance industry has not been forthcoming at innovations compared to the rest of the financial sector, still, Africa is experiencing a huge protection gap,” FSD Africa’s director of risk, Kelvin Massingham stated.

He also stated that there are plans to launch the BimaLab Insurtech Accelerator Program in Ghana and Nigeria. FSD Africa also has plans to grant access to capital through venture funds and grants to early-stage Insurtech startups as well as set up an online platform where founders can brainstorm, share experiences and ideas, create partnerships, and gain technical support from different professionals in the industry.

The FSD Africa is currently working with eight (8) insurance regulators including regulators of Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania in building an environment that strengthens Insurtech innovation across the African continent.

“It is a peer learning and engagement platform primarily for regulators around the regulation of innovations and things like creating Insurtech and startup ecosystems, but also on wider issues such ESG (environmental, social and governance). And we’re excited to support the development of similar programs across the region,” Massingham stated.

These new plans came to fruition after the graduation of the Kenya program’s second cohort last Friday. During the 10-week program, participants were granted and exposed to solid knowledge and resources to develop and get their solutions ready for the market. Twelve (12) startups in total were in the cohort, with Karopay and Motisure earning recognition for their innovations.

Motisure targets motorcycle (boda-boda) taxi commuters and riders with personal accident coverage for as low as 10 Kenyan shillings (about 9 U.S. cents) a day. Boda-bodas are a popular means of transport in East Africa, with up to 22 million rides served alone in Kenya every day.

Karopay’s Edutech insurance product Bimashule ensures that all students in rural Kenya areas have premium access to basic medical and personal accident insurance coverage, with premiums starting from less than $1 a month. It also comes with a guarantee on school fees in the event of loss of guardian.

Nigeria Startup Identitypass Raises $360K Pre-seed Funding

Startups

Abidemi Ogunyemi-Aderibigbe

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November 23, 2021

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Nigeria Startup Identitypass Raises $360K Pre-seed Funding

The Nigeria startup Identitypass and digital compliance and security company is looking to expand its team, serve and get more customers as well as delve into research and development.

The Nigeria startup, Identitypass was launched in January 2021 by Mr. Lanre Ogungbe, Mr. Niyi Adegboye, and Mr. David Obi and it has since delivered seamless identity verification solutions to various businesses.

The Identitypass platform provides easy-to-use compliance and data security platform that helps with identity verification solutions to online businesses to easily authenticate and validate the genuineness of a transacting party to avoid being scammed.

This is achieved through existing forms of identification ranging from personal traits to government-issued identity cards up to every bit of data that can uniquely help to identify individuals and businesses while dealing with people, money, and data in an easy, secure and faster way.

With a variety of products offered such as identity checker, Identity graph, Identity form, and biometrics technologies, Identitypass currently powers the verification engines or solutions for over 170 businesses with plans to power more businesses in the coming quarter with product verification.

This funding round by Nigeria startup, Identitypass attracted various participation from CCHub, Midlothian Angel Network, D Global Ventures Fund, and other Angel Investors. The Nigeria startup is on a mission to build world-class compliance and security infrastructure for Africa which is free from identity theft and other security compliance-related bottlenecks.

The startup has also secured some strategic partnerships that will aid its product usage kick off in multiple continents, such as America and Asia.

Just as stated earlier that the funds generated will be channeled into customer acquisition, research and development, and team expansion as the company aim at achieving more with modern products that would not only keep businesses secured but also secure every internet user in the region.

ThankUcash and Interswitch Are Launching a Reward and Loyalty Platform

Infotech

Abdulquadri Ayilara

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November 23, 2021

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Interswitch Group, Africa’s premier technology-driven firm focused on payments digitization, has announced the launch of Interswitch rewards in collaboration with ThankUCash, Nigeria’s first and largest rewards, and discounts platform.

Interswitch will be able to keep its promise to empower businesses of all sizes by improving the relationship between merchants and customers, resulting in increased customer loyalty and retention.

Furthermore, the agreement has the ability to integrate ThankUCash Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) into other Interswitch solutions, such as cards and loyalty, POS terminals, and card loyalty processing.

Following the launch, merchants on Quickteller Business will be able to build up loyalty points for their clients, who will be able to redeem their points for items ranging from groceries to fuel, among other things.

Simeon Ononobi, co-founder and CEO of Connected Analytics Inc., which owns the ThankUCash brand, commented on the cooperation, saying, “Our goal as a company is to develop relationships that will stimulate growth for businesses and customers alike.”

ThankUCash was created out of a desire to assist merchants in reaching as many customers as possible, allowing customers to get the most out of their buying experience.

He went on to say that partnering with Interswitch is a dream come true for most entrepreneurs. “We’re thrilled to be working with Interswitch, and we’re looking forward to providing the greatest solutions for her consumers and merchants.” Merchants and customers stand to gain the most from a relationship like this.”

“Imagine a network where a customer buys a product from an airline online, earns cash back on the transaction, and then uses the points obtained to view a movie,” he said.

He noted that the reward system is the first of its kind and a true loyalty infrastructure that will help businesses thrive and people get enthusiastic to spend money on things they need.

“This relationship with ThankUCash is aligned with our business and merchant empowerment objective,” Muyiwa Asagba, managing director, digital commerce and merchant acquiring Paymate at Interswitch Group, stated.

“We will continue to use our experience to create creative solutions that assist businesses in growing, keeping in mind the critical role that SMEs play in boosting socioeconomic progress across the country.”

ThankUCash is on a mission to build additional partnerships, according to Madonna Ononobi, the company’s co-founder and chief operations officer, as it strives to expand its reach by delivering cutting-edge consumer purchasing capabilities to aid businesses and merchants alike.

“By the end of 2023, we will have connected 10,000 enterprises to over 10 million clients across Africa.”

Green Crypto Mining Looks to Launch in Africa

Crypto

Boluwatife Aponmade

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November 23, 2021

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Green Crypto Mining Looks to Launch in Africa

Africa is being eyed as a potential location for Green crypto mining. Knowing that crypto mining can have a serious environmental effect, East Africa has one of the highest electric rates, hence, has been looked to be taken advantage of by the company, considering the low hashtag rates of East Africa and to add sustainable crypto mining solutions.

Bitcoin is known for wasting electricity that is more than enough to add 40 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere per year, hence, why Green Crypto Mining looks forward to launching in Africa, where there is a low hashtag rate and high electric rates. For all of the cryptocurrency’s purported benefits, it is an environmental disaster.

There are important cryptocurrencies like Cardano, Ethereum, Ripple’s XRP, stellar, and Algorand that use very much less energy than bitcoin or are being modified so. Ethereum, for example, is going to undergo changes from ‘proof of work’ to a system known as ‘proof of stake’. It cuts energy use by 99.95%. There is a new currency, candela, whose own method of generating energy requires solar-powered mining.

Green Crypto Mining will expand its focus in East Africa by adding sustainable cryptocurrency mining offerings rather than replacing existing energy production and computing equipment solutions with better and lasting solutions.

WaterPure International, Inc. looks into introducing a sustainable cryptocurrency mining initiative to its cards of electric utility offerings. It has updated its decade-old clean water operations and expanded into the electricity utility sector. WPUR will be adding sustainable crypto mining solutions to its focus on electricity utilities.

Microsoft Job Opening in Nigeria: Start-UPS CTO

Tech Jobs

Sopuruchukwu Elizabeth Mba

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November 23, 2021

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Microsoft Job Opening in Nigeria: Start-UPS CTO

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Africa is one of the best places on the planet to bring our mission to life. It is home to people and 54 countries. The talent in Africa reflects a tremendously rich and diverse potential that can truly impact the world over the next few decades. Being the youngest continent in the world with a median age of just years, Africa is contributing to +12M youth being added to the global labor force every year. By 2040, half of the world’s young people will live in Africa.

Africa’s growth is propelled by being a mobile-first continent that is fueling connectivity, innovation, and scalability.

Our aspiration is to transform Africa into a Cloud-first, Digital-first continent enabling a thriving digital economy across Africa while reinventing Microsoft’s digital assets and capabilities to serve the young continent’s transformation needs. With that in mind was the establishment of a new team; the Africa Transformation Office (ATO), which will be established and chartered with the following:

Build strategic, unconventional partnerships with key governments, institutions, and enterprises to enable and accelerate the digital economy across the African continent.
Develop digital marketing engines to enable and accelerate Startups and SMBs.
Plan and land infrastructure enablers and game-changers in the continent.
Enable Africa as a Foreign Direct Investment destination supported by expanding our technologies for MNCs across key industries.

Manage the 4Afrika initiative and further integrate it into key company programs and engines to amplify its impact.
Foster digital skilling and job creation to maximize the economic opportunity for the African youth and workforce.

Role Summary

Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their own digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and support offerings. To this end, Microsoft invests in a dedicated team that will help Microsoft customers successfully realize their business outcomes. Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market.

We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference. We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate App Innovation Architect focusing on Azure Application Innovation to join the ATO.

This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning design, build, and production with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within the MicrosoftAfricacustomer base. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management, and Developers.

You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption. You will drive the technical intensity of developers and create communities within customers. And you will collaborate with Product engineering to share feedback on the development of Microsoft products and help develop the Azure platform.

Responsibilities

Understand customers’ overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding.

Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to empower customers to create a modernization journey roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS services App Service, Java, containers, serverless, cloud-native, etc.) and Application

Development with low code options and DevOps and GitHub technologies as appropriate.
Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Ensure all solutions exhibit a “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.

Run Architectural Design Session to build a plan for implementing the solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. The outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision-makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates.
Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers.

Troubleshoot technical issues to prove the value of the implementation of Azure technologies.
Assess the Customers’ knowledge of the Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners. Collaborate with others in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities.
Build and grow developer communities by driving activities including OpenHacks, Workshops.

Compliance

Personally, commit to generating and protecting Microsoft’s trust by modeling integrity every day and contributing to ethical sales and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

Professional

Professional Experience. 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.

Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.

Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.
Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Administrators, and Developers).

Technical

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management.

Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud).

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud-native app hosting through software design, development, deployment, and app refactoring/migrations.

Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture, and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM).

Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs, etc.

Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD toolchains (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).

Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.
Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field preferred.

Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD toolchains Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub).

Certification in one or more of the following programming languages preferred: C++, C#, Java, Python.

Experiences

Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, OraclePreferred.

Location

Lagos.

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