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A leading bank in Asia seeks a senior project manager in technology operations in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves overseeing large-scale projects, ensuring effective delivery, and utilizing strong leadership and communication skills. Candidates should possess substantial experience in engineering and financial service sectors, focusing on innovative technology solutions.
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.
UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliverinnovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.
About the DepartmentThe Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.
Job Responsibilities• Manages the delivery of large, complex projects using appropriate frameworks and collaborating with sponsors to manage scope and risk.
• Drives profitability and continued success by managing service quality and cost and leading delivery.
• Measures and communicates progress to leadership within committed time frames. Proactively support sales through innovative solutions and delivery excellence.
• Work closely with client project teams to provide expertise (functional, technical, industry, tools/methods) to ensure successful solution design and delivery.
• Research, gather and synthesize information.
• Responsible for end-to-end software development and support for all work transitioned from Group (which could be projects, quarterly change requests, L3 production fixes). This includes analysis and design to development, implementation, testing and support. Lead the effort to design, build and configure applications, acting as the primary point of contact.
• Responsible for quality assurance of the team delivery in conformance to the Bank-defined software delivery methodology and tools.
• Partner closely with the Group domain team to plan and manage transitioned deliverables.
• Accountable for delivery performance of our Technology Delivery Services
• Provide supervision and guidance to both onshore and offshore teams to achieve the delivery targets.
• Proactively explore and implement new practices and enablement to improve delivery efficiency and quality.
• Act as Point-of-Contact to clients on delivery matters and facilitate client relationship building.
• Proactively analyze, identify, prioritize and mitigate delivery risks for overall portfolio and specific delivery project.
• Bachelor's degree with at least 15 years' experience.
• Experience in various leadership roles.
• Experience in a complex, global engineering and banking/ financial services organization.
• Exceptional communication skills, written, verbal and presentation.
• Experience delivering highly complex, global programs and projects.
• Strong relationship management skills with executive stakeholders.
• Deep and broad experience in corporate (Technologies).
• Demonstrate experience and expertise in driving and managing large scale delivery project (for both Solution Delivery and Application Management projects).
• Solid experience working with nearshore/offshore delivery teams, and knowledgeable about related methodology, tools, collaboration enablement, people management.
Functional
Data Lake, EDW, Data Mart, Data Integration
Technical skillsets
Technical/Data modelling/Data profiling skills in below technologies:
Good to have:
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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