Senior Manager, Integral Life Delivery Management

AIA Digital+; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Digital+ in Kuala Lumpur seeks a seasoned IT professional to lead an Integral Life Delivery team. You will oversee development, deployment, and support of Integral Life applications for the life insurance domain, guiding juniors and coordinating with IT and business stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have a strong COBOL/AS400 background, 10+ years in relevant development, and solid SDLC governance, security, and compliance awareness. This role demands leadership and analytical excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT or related areas.
• Has minimum 10 years of working experience in the application development for life insurance domain using Integral Life/Life Asia COBOL system.
• Intermediate knowledge of AS400, COBOL, SMART/400, Control Language and SQL development.
• Fast learner with strong analytical and impact analysis skills to provide feedback on user requirements.

Responsibilities

• As a team lead, accountable to the team performance and development.
• Discuss with reporting managers to align on expectations and goals for the team.
• Involve in team resource planning and budgeting.
• Lead Integral Life system requirements gathering, impact analysis, propose solutions, code development, unit testing, UAT support and deployment.
• Adhere to SDLC, development standards and other norms.
• Deliver system solutions on scope, timeline and quality.
• Support production incidents and problems caused by SDLC issues.
• Provide management updates on system and project activities.
• Understand system functionalities and impact on interfacing systems.
• Adhere to Integral Life security, standards and compliance.
• Participate in team activities, mentoring, coaching juniors, and system maintenance.

Skills

AS400

COBOL

SMART/400

Control Language

SQL development

Education

Degree in IT or related areas

Job description

Leading a team consist of developers assigned to different projects and as a single contributor with specific roles in BAU/Project.

She/He is also expected to work independently with a strong technical know-how that enables her/him to propose sound, practical solutions to business problems. Influencing skills are a must, not only to resolve conflicts, but also to manage stakeholders across the business and IT community. She/He should already have the ability to think laterally and quickly grasp key concepts, have a positive attitude and be resilient when dealing with business challenges.

Coaching, mentoring and monitoring are parts of his daily tasks for him to ensure the team has sufficient capability as per KPI set.

Must have strong leadership, Initiatives, and teamwork to work with other technology teams in order to help team achieve target.

As a developer in Integral Life Delivery Management is responsible for leading the development, deployment and support of Integral Life Application to meet business requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing solutions and development of new technical solutions to improve company’s operations.

Geographical Responsibilities:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• As a team lead, accountable to the team performance and development.
• Actively discuss with reporting manager(s) to align on expectations and goals setting for the team.
• Involving in team resource plan and budgeting.
• In charge of Integral Life system requirement gathering, impact analysis, propose solutions, code development, unit testing, UAT support (incl. UAT EOD batch support) and deployment (BAU and Projects).
• Obey and follow on prevailing SDLC, Development, and other standards.
• System delivery according to determined scopes, timeline, and quality.
• Take accountability/supportive on production incident/problem tickets caused by any disobedience SDLC process.
• Supportive to provide management updates on system/project related activities.
• Understand functionalities and technical aspects of the system; analyze technical impact on interfacing systems.
• To adhere to and support on Integral Life security, standard and compliance matters.
• Actively participate in Team activities such sharing (knowledges, ideas etc.), mentoring, coaching (junior), system upgrade/maintenance etc.
• Degree in IT or related areas.
• Has minimum 10 years of working experience in the application development for life insurance domain using Integral Life/Life Asia COBOL system.
• Intermediate knowledge of AS400, COBOL, SMART/400, Control Language and SQL development.
• Fast learner and has strong analytical and impact analysis skills to provide feedbacks/inputs on user requirements.