Director of IT

At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.

As pioneering innovators for over 100 years, we’re now transforming our organisation to be faster, simpler and more connected. Because we want to be even better equipped to develop digital solutions and experiences that help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

To get there, we need people with tech/digital/analytics expertise and passion to help develop positive, sustainable change through digitally enhanced experiences that will impact the lives of millions of people and create a healthier future for everyone.

If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, read on. 

About the Role

The position objective of team leader of IT is to
• Assist the department head on IT development strategy and overall management.
• Lead the team to complete IT projects and maintain day-to-day systems reliability.
• Lead initiatives that embed AI capabilities across investment research, risk management, operational automation, and client services — transforming how the firm leverages data and intelligence at every level.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate to formulate and execute long-term and annual IT development strategies, priorities and plans for IT system, investment applications and data management across IAMC.
• Responsible for setting the governance framework for IT, establishing IT policy and procedures complying with IGF, AIA standards and regulatory requirements.
• Lead to maintain existing IAMC systems to ensure BAU smoothly and successfully.
• Responsible for enhance existing investment systems to cater to new business requirements. 
• Lead to effectively maintain AMC infrastructure support model, IT security and data security together with AIA Life CIT team, effectively meeting AIA standard and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the relationship with key external service providers, including software vendors and outsourced service partners.
• Manage the overall IT budget, ensuring effective resource allocation.
• Establish an enterprise AI platform that enables internal teams to leverage shared models, data feeds, and prompt engineering frameworks — lowering the barrier to AI adoption.
• Evaluate and manage relationships with AI technology vendors, model providers, and open-source communities.
• Foster a firm-wide AI culture by organizing training programs and proof-of-concept showcases to build AI literacy and drive bottom-up innovation.
• Stay current with AI industry trends, particularly in financial services applications (AI agents, multi-modal models, agentic workflows), and proactively recommend pilot initiatives.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, Advanced degree is a plus.
• 8+ years of progressive IT experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management capacity.
• Prior experience in asset management, insurance asset management, securities, or financial services is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in infrastructure technologies: Windows Server, Linux, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), networking (LAN/WAN, firewalls).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Understanding of data warehouse, BI tools, and financial data integration.
• Familiarity with NFRA, CSRC regulatory requirements related to IT governance in insurance asset management.
• Understanding of classified protection (等级保护), cybersecurity review, and IT outsourcing management regulations.
• Strong leadership and people management capabilities.
• Working knowledge of AI technologies: LLM application development, prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine-tuning, and model evaluation.
• Experience building AI agents or agentic workflows for financial use cases (e.g., automated data collection, multi-step research pipelines, intelligent compliance review) is much preferred.
• Proficient in English (written and spoken).

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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