Application Support Lead, VP2

Sperton Global AS; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic application support lead to spearhead technical resolutions and manage digital banking implementations. In this pivotal role, you will provide technical leadership, oversee the delivery of innovative banking platforms, and drive digital transformation initiatives. Your expertise in API design, Java technologies, and web application security will be crucial in fostering high-performance teams and optimizing application performance. Join a forward-thinking organization where your contributions will shape the future of digital banking and enhance customer experiences. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in API design and microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of web application security and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical resolutions and manage incident and problem processes.
• Drive digital transformation and support organizational change initiatives.

Skills

API design (RESTFUL, SOAP)

Java/J2EE technologies

Agile delivery

Web application security

Performance optimization

Transforming development organizations

Tools

JBOSS

Apache

Weblogic

Spring framework

Kubernetes

Oracle

MariaDB

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

• The application support lead is the 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 the 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 the digital bank portfolio.
• Drive digital transformation – support and drive digital business and technology change through organizational, cultural, behavioral, 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 microservices 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 & authorization, session management, data security, and other best practices to protect web applications from vulnerabilities and threats.
  • Identifying backend performance bottlenecks on both application & integration layers, and performing relevant optimizations.
  • All architecture layers.
  • Design principles and design patterns.
• Ability to:
  • Transform traditional development organizations 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.