Manager, Application Delivery & Management

What the role is?

In this role, you will play a key role in overseeing the delivery, support, enhancement, and continuous improvement of business-critical applications across back office functions. Manage the delivery, support and enhancement of internally developed and business-critical applications across multiple corporate functions.

Work closely with Finance and Corporate Digital Leads to ensure application stability, performance and continuous improvement. Collaborate with business users to gather requirements, analyse business needs and translate them into functional and technical specifications. Coordinate system enhancements, releases, testing, deployment activities and incident resolution in a timely and effective manner.

Act as a key liaison between IT, business units and external vendors to ensure quality delivery and alignment with business priorities. Manage vendors and service providers, monitor project timelines and deliverables, and ensure agreed service levels and performance standards are met.

Oversee user access control, system authorisation processes, documentation and audit trails to support internal governance and compliance requirements. Support cloud migration, digital transformation and application modernisation initiatives, including cloud-based and containerisation technologies where applicable.

Identify opportunities to improve system efficiency, reliability, automation and operational effectiveness.

Who we look for ? Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any related disciplines. Minimum 6–10 years of relevant IT experience, preferably in application development, application support or application delivery management. Experience in the financial services or insurance industry will be an advantage.

Solid understanding of the application development and support lifecycle, system integration, API-based architecture and enterprise systems. Hands-on exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS, and knowledge of container technologies such as Kubernetes would be advantageous.

Experienced in managing self-developed applications, low-code/no-code applications, payment systems, IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss processes or regulatory-related systems is preferred. Strong stakeholder management, vendor management, communication and problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese including Putonghua.

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