IT Assistant Platform Lead - Core

FWD Group Management Holdings Limited; Kebayoran Baru; On-site; IDR 450,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FWD Group is seeking an IT Senior AS400 Developer to work closely with business analysts and third parties on design, coding and development for FWD-approved AS400 platforms.

The role focuses on the AS400 Life Asia platform, ensuring secure development, testing, and production promotions while maintaining platform governance. A strong track record in AS400 COBOL and Life Asia is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in management, Information System or Engineering.
• 6+ years experience in AS400 COBOL development in insurance.
• 5+ years AS400 Life Asia development.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups of people.
• Knowledge of common insurance business processes (NB, POS, Claims, Premium).
• Advanced understanding of AS400 programming and Life Asia suite.

Responsibilities

• Create SDS-based coding guidelines and drive program development.
• Develop and modify programs per SDS and TS.
• Perform functional tests to ensure reliability and quality.
• Coordinate with Platform Lead for operations and resource management.
• Mentor and review the work of other AS400 Developers to ensure governance.
• Analyze technical requirements to align with FWD standards.
• Promote programs to UAT and Production environments with proper testing.
• Collaborate with GO Support on development and deployment processes.

Skills

AS400 COBOL

Smart400

Life Asia

Excellent communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in management, Information System or Engineering

Tools

AS400

Smart400

Job description

About FWD Group

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 40 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828. For more information, please visit www.fwd.com PT FWD Insurance Indonesia (“FWD Insurance”), a joint-venture insurance company and a part of FWD Group, previously known as PT Commonwealth Life, has successfully merged with PT FWD Life Indonesia (“FWD Life”) as of 1 December 2020 and will be known as FWD Insurance. The merger of FWD Life and FWD Insurance has led to a more comprehensive range of products, including unit-linked insurance, individual & group term life insurance, individual & group personal accident insurance, and group medical insurance through technology driven-distributions such as agency, bancassurance, e-commerce, and corporate. FWD Insurance is registered and supervised under Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (“OJK”). FWD Insurance is a member of Indonesia Financial Services Alternative Dispute Resolution Center.

Job Purpose

IT Senior AS400 Developer is responsible to work closely with business analyst and related third parties in doing program design, coding and development for FWD approved AS400 platforms. IT Senior AS400 Developer is responsible for business systems technical management for the AS400 Life Asia platform. Job Purpose IT Senior AS400 Developer is responsible to work closely with business analyst and related third parties in doing program design, coding and development for FWD approved AS400 platforms. IT Senior AS400 Developer is responsible for business systems technical management for part of the following platform: AS400 Life Asia.

Key Responsibilities

• Create coding guideline by creating SDS (System Design Specification) based on BRS (Bussiness Requirement Specification)
• Responsible for coding to create a program base on SDS
• To make sure the program will run smoothly by doing functional test
• Assist the Platform Lead in Operational team management of AS400 Developers (Programmers) including work allocation, priority setting, resources assignment, progress tracking and performance management
• Managing quality of work of other AS400 Developers in the assigned project execution to ensure procedure & work governance being implemented
• Engage with functional leader to address issues, concerns and conflicts related to activity of Platform Developers, to secure delivery of projects and initiatives
• Perform in-depth technical requirement analysis of approved Technical Specification (TS) document to ensure used programming code is aligned with FWD standard AS400 platforms.
• Perform development of application code according to the standard architecture, application change management policy and security requirements.
• Ensure implementation security standard on new develop / enhanced system.
• Responsible to promote program to UAT environment including verification and create unit test for user as testing guideline
• To liase with infrastructure to promote program to Production environment
• Coordinate production support and monitoring activities and manage issue resolutions according to business priority include investigation, query, fixing and testing.
• Analyse and manage task urgency to ensure priority is aligned with business objectives.
• Engage with GO Support in collaboration of development and deployment process.

Key Qualifications

• Experience Bachelor’s degree in management, Information System or Engineering
• Experience in platform development in the Insurance Industry, at least 6 years
• 6 Years as Developer AS400 for COBOL
• 5 Years as Developer Smart400 for Life Asia
• Excellent verbal & written comm skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups of people
• Knowledge & Technical Skill
• Knowledge on common insurance business knowledge ie : NB, POS, Claim, Premium Management etc
• Knowledge of IT programming platform methodology, process, tools, and system support
• Advanced understanding and experience of AS400 programming.
• Experienced with AS400 Life Asia.

FWD Core Competencies

• Champion our vision
• Communicate with clarity
• Develop & engage
• Collaborate and connect
• Lead innovation and change
• Own and decide
• AS400 COBOL
• Smart400
• Life Asia Insurance Business Process
• Business Acumen
• Change Leadership
• Results Oriented
• Strategic Thinking
• People Management
• Collaboration
• Customer Focus
• Requirement Analysis
• Technical Specification
• Architecture design
• Risk Management
• SDLC/ITIL Agile Methodologies
• System Security & Integration
• System Architecture
• System Integration Testing
• Insurance Process Performance Indicators
• Quality delivery of system design, TS & SIT documents (accuracy, scope, timelines)
• Successful & timely delivery of application development, work assignments and projects according to the approved specification
• Ensure quality on delivered products
• Delivery of production support and monitoring SLA
• Positive stake holder feedback based on engagement experience

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 40 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828. For more information, please visit www.fwd.com Follow us on LinkedIn