Vice President, Development Manager (Payments), Group Technology

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations.

We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure.

Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.
 

Job Responsibilities

The Cash & Payments technology team is responsible for all aspects of the cash & payments processing application portfolio, which includes:

• Defining the payments technology roadmap to support the business strategies and objectives as part of the payments transformation programme.
• Delivering all IT solutions and enhancements.
• Ensuring highly available and scalable system capabilities to accommodate business growth
• Managing all risk and security aspects of the application portfolio
• As part of a major investment programme in the cash & payments technology platforms over the next few years, a significant transformation of the payments processing platforms is planned.
• Reporting to the Head of Payments Technology, this incumbent is responsible for all day-to-day application development and integration activities related to the existing cash & payments platforms, which includes:
• All application software development and support activities from pre-project initiation, functional specifications to development, implementation, testing and post go-live support.
• Building out and leading a team of analysts to implement and integrate a solution that meet business requirements and are in alignment with the organization's business objectives.  
• Defining and managing technical solution from design through to code level, in close collaboration with the enterprise architecture and software engineering functions
• Managing 3rd party product vendors and integration partners with vendor to ensure application deliveries are timely and good quality.
• Providing hands-on guidance to the team on functional and technical issues
• Partnering with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and provide consultation on solution and technology.
• Leading and contributing to cross-team improvement initiatives relating to agile methods, CI/CD tools, people, architecture, project management and governance, including further adoption and improvements to the Bank’s System Development Methodology (SDM)

Job Requirements

• At least 10 years of functional hands-on experience on requirements gathering and documentation covering Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirement Document, Technical Specifications, business analysis planning and monitoring.
• Good experience around requirement analysis and design definition, solution evaluation and elicitation. 
• Technologist with immense interest in trying out new architectures, frameworks, programming languages or concepts.
• Hands on experience should include:
• Writing SQL queries, UNIX/Shell scripting.
• BI tools (Business Objects, QlikView)
• IBM MQ, Kafka.
• Object Design and Modelling
• DevOps tools.
• At least one of the following: Oracle, MS SQL, Maria DB or any NoSQL 
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services.
• Strong IT delivery experience in implementing experience implementing large scale, highly available database related applications.  Experience with implementing and integrating 3rd party solutions is a must.
• Good understanding and experience in various software development cycle methodologies, including migrating from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.  
• 5 or more years’ experience managing third-party product vendor relationships and offshore development teams to achieve business outcomes 
• 5 or more years’ experience at a manager level or above delivering global IT capabilities for a multi-national company with annual budgetary responsibilities 
• Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery 
• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• Good problem-solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills.

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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