Assistant General Manager, Application Development (Data Service)

Responsibilities

• Determine the automation strategy, prepare long term IT development plan, defines IT standards, procedures and guidelines, and ensures they are all strictly followed
• Provide sound technical advice to support overall business planning of the Bank. Work closely with business and support units to expand various business and improve operational accuracy and efficiency
• Provide technical insights for management to define IT strategy and direct teams to follow the established strategies
• Plan, select, acquire, allocate, and control resources to produce the best price performance application system
• Build a highly motivated, competent and professional team to support business needs, especially with data technologies, including big data, processing of unstructured data, data governance
• Equip with latest market trend and technology, in particular in areas of data technologies, AI, Machine Learning
• Ensure system stability and reliability without interruption to customers, business and operation
• Ensure procedures, guidelines and compliance rules are strictly followed
• Review peer ideas and contributes solution in line with the IT Architecture Solution
• Participate in regular change review board and comprehensively review important production implementation process in order to achieve least service impact
• Develop the high-level project plan, sets objectives, identifies resources, resolve constraint and delivers good quality application systems
• Approve, review, supervise all application development work to ensure good quality results are delivered that meet the business expectation
• Evaluate, identify potential challenges and develops contingency plan to minimize business risks
• Evaluate user requests and recommends solution to the end-user (business).  Review technical solution proposal for an optimal cost effective investment

Requirements:

• In-depth knowledge on structured and unstructured data technologies
• Exposure to multiple computer platforms, including mainframe and open platform etc.
• In-depth knowledge of the Banking industry and various banking products
• Degree holder in Information Technology/ Computer Science/ Computer Engineering
• At least 15 years' experience in application software development with at least 10 years in project management and people management
• At least 10 years' experience to manage vendor in project delivery and package maintenance and support
• Rich exposure in various banking applications
• Preferable with experience to manage multiple sub-teams serving different business domain area