Description
About our client
Our Client operates in the Financial Services Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Singapore. It has its branches spread to more than 15 countries, providing employment to more than 25,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Forbes Global 2000 (2022). Their core business is to offer financial services to its clients, ranging from Investment Banking to Corporate as well as Personal Banking Services.. They are also well known for their Residential Home Loan Business.
Job description
Responsibilities:
- Plan technical and functional deliverables (including any system enhancements and upgrades) to meet project’s requirements within allocated budget and schedule.
- Plan & collaborate across different application teams to manage technical and functional dependencies of the solution
- Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to technical delivery. Take ownership of any issues that may impact the delivery quality and timeline.
- Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager (PM)/ Program Manager
- Partner with System Analysts, Functional Business Analysts and SME’s to collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements
- Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards
- Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results
- Prepare and manage technical implementation plan across application teams - coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support
- Own the delivery plan. Escalate issues that impact project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions. Follow up on the proposed solution and fix the problem
- Manage stakeholders throughout the duration of the project. Ensure project governance is adhered to, any changes are documented and approved
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain
- Strong technical knowledge and/or platform knowledge (Data Analytics)
- Good business domain knowledge in Global Markets and Group Risk
- More than 10 years track record in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility
- More than 3 years leadership experience in managing IT delivery teams
- Experience in communicating with functional and technical stakeholders
- Experience in banking industry preferred
- Experience in implementing large-scale, highly available applications or another large project implementation
- Experience in service-oriented technologies
- Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience (in aggregate no less than 8 years)
- Good understanding and experience in software development cycle