Vice President Technical Delivery Manager - Channels, Group Technology

Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd

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.

Job Description

The incumbent is responsible to lead and manage multiple teams (System Analysts, Infrastructure, DevOps, release management, Technical Delivery) on an onsite, off-shore model to build, enhance said application to meet business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for end-to-end delivery from pre-project to post-go live support

• Be responsible for leading multiple delivery streams to deliver successful project outcomes

• Plan, track and manage budgets & resources

• Vendor management – SOW’s, budgets, invoice approvals , resource onboarding /offboarding and governance through regular governance meetings

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to team

• Partner with business stakeholders, architects to understand business requirements and technical design

• Plan, manage, track delivery through a combination of agile tools and traditional planning tools where required to ensure overall delivery across all streams are sequenced and tracked

• Ensure risks are pro-actively managed and highlighted in right forums to seek support for resolution

• Deliver project in guidance and adherence to Bank’s architecture, software delivery, security, release management standard & guidelines.

• Ensure all deliverables, checkpoints are planned and delivered to meet the bank’s standards and quality gates

• Pro-actively plan development dependencies and plan and track them to closure

• Ensure quality standards are built into the development phase with a quality first approach

• Measure and monitor progress and quality using data oriented approach

• Participate in scrum of scrums and cross stream meetings to discuss, highlight dependencies across systems.

• Conduct regular checkpoints ( daily scrum’s , weekly project meetings) and track actions to closure

• Put in change management processes to manage and deliver agreed business outcomes

• During test phases, actively drive defect fixes to meet SLA’s. measure and manage defect density, re-open rates

• Promote a culture of inclusiveness and have active participation from the team during team meetings and standups.

• Identify areas of improvement from each sprint and work towards continuous improvement to improve sprint velocity and quality

Key Requirements

• At least 12-15 yrs experience with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects

• Should have had at least 5 years experience in managing large-scale projects & building applications from scratch using API’s and micro services and leading multiple streams

• Should have a strong Java development background and the right level of experience and expertise to coach, plan and deliver complex applications

• 5+ years’ experience on design, development and implementation of applications using micro services

• Ability to work under pressure and strict deadlines

• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders

• Strong team player able to rally multiple teams towards common objective.

• Good networking, problem solving, analytical, system thinking and solutioning skills.

• Should have prior experience in managing virtual teams in onsite/offshore model

• Own overall delivery and drive teams velocity

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Prior experience in Banking applications (customer facing – client onboarding or middleware payment processing systems) is a plus

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the 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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