Application Support Lead, VP2

Sperton Global AS; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sperton Global AS is seeking an Application Support Lead to drive technical resolutions and lead the mobile/internet banking platform delivery. You will oversee incident/problem/knowledge management for Production apps and provide strategic direction for the digital bank portfolio.

The role requires strong Java/J2EE development background, deep API/microservices expertise, and ability to mentor senior IT professionals while collaborating with business and product teams to enable fast, reliable

Qualifications

• Experience with design and integration of RESTful and SOAP APIs and microservices.
• Combination of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Developing web applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Developing microservices and consuming RESTful web services.
• Configuration and deployment of enterprise apps with JBOSS; SDLC from analysis to production support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the focal point for technical resolutions and manage incident, problem and knowledge management for Production applications.
• Provide technical leadership in support of the Group's digital bank implementation.
• Deliver mobile/internet banking platform and oversee country implementations of digital banking platforms.
• Oversee IT area leads, Chapter Leads and senior IT professionals; collaborate with business and product teams.
• Drive digital transformation and lead changes in organization, culture, and processes.

Skills

API design

Java/J2EE

Microservices

Web security

Performance tuning

Architecture patterns

Team leadership

Tools

JBOSS

WebLogic

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Maven

Hibernate

JMS

JPA

Oracle

MariaDB

Apache Camel

REST API

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

• The application support lead is focal point of contact for technical resolutions while managing the incident, problem and knowledge management processes for the in-scoped applications in Production.
• Provide technical leadership in support of Group's digital bank implementation.
• Responsible for overall delivery of the mobile/internet banking platform or country implementation of a digital banking platform.
• Provide management oversight to IT area leads, Chapter Leads and other senior IT professionals.
• Maintain strong collaboration and partnership with business and product teams.
• Provide thought leadership and facilitate the sharing of knowledge between digital bank team and across other Group's teams to strengthen capabilities and the organization's ability to respond to business and customer needs. Drive strategies, technical roadmaps and implementation of digital bank portfolio.
• Drive digital transformation – support and drive digital business and technology change through organisational, cultural, behavioural and process changes.
• Champion change initiatives and provide guidance and support on the design, implementation and communication of each initiative.
• Support the Team - Build up the right capabilities and people, equip them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence, and ensure that they are deployed to value‑creation opportunities — sometimes in long‑term roles supporting the business, but more often to the small, independent squads.
• Build Capabilities - Responsible for building a “capability” to support a value‑creation line; shepherding people along their career paths; evaluating and promoting people; and building standard tools, methods, and ways of working in collaboration with the Chapters and the Platform/Tribe Coaches.
• Manage By Empowering - The ITAL must manage external (vendors) and internal resources, must evaluate, promote, coach, and develop his or her people, but without traditional direct oversight. The ITAL is not involved in the day‑to‑day work of squads for “value creation standpoint” but has the responsibility to supervise the day‑to‑day (quality, velocity, productivity, resourcing, vendor management) in collaboration with team members and the Platform/Tribes/Squad business leads.
  

Job Requirements:

• Experienced in:
  • Various API design (RESTFUL, SOAP) and microservices architecture.
  • Mixed development methodology development waterfall and Agile delivery.
  • Developing web applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
  • Developing micro services and consuming RESTful web services.
  • Configuration, deployment of enterprise applications with JBOSS
  • All the phases of Software Development Life Cycle from Analysis to Production
    support.
• Strong knowledge:
  • Web applications security, such as authentication & authorisation, session
    management, data security and other best practice to protect web applications
    from vulnerabilities and threats
  • Identifying backend performance bottlenecks on both application & integration
    layers, and performs relevant optimizations.
  • All architecture layers.
  • Design principles and design patterns.
• Ability to:
  • Transform traditional development organisations into high performance squads.
  • Nurture individual tribe leads / IT area leads into high performing rockstars.
• Familiar with:
  • Application hosting technologies such as Apache, JBOSS, Weblogic.
  • Performing design and code review for other team members.
  • Server‑side Frameworks – Core-Java, Apache Camel, Maven, Spring framework,Spring Boot, Multi-threading, JDBC, JMS, Hibernate, JPA, JSON, Mockito, Swagger,OpenShift, Kubernetes.
  • Database technologies such as Oracle, MariaDB.