Senior System Analyst

FWD Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Asian insurance firm is seeking a skilled technology manager to lead the Agile development process in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves overseeing teams, project planning, and ensuring quality solutions across various technologies. Candidates must have at least 6 years of experience in application development, strong insurance knowledge, and proficiency in technologies such as Kubernetes and Java Spring Boot. The position emphasizes leadership and effective communication in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of application development experience.
• Strong insurance knowledge.
• Experience implementing IT systems/projects in Asian countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Agile development process.
• Engage in project planning and resource allocation.
• Deliver quality solutions and implement good coding practices.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Agile methodology

Java Spring Boot

Node JS

React JS

Communication

Education

University degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

API Gateway

RDBMS

Job description

FWD Group is a pan‑Asian life and health insurance business with more than 12 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest‑growing insurance markets in the world. The company was established in 2013 and is focused on changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD’s customer‑led and digitally enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy‑to‑understand products and a simpler insurance experience.

For more information, please visit www.fwd.com

FWD Technology and Innovation Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., known as FWD TIM, was established in late 2019. Strategically located in Kuala Lumpur, FWD TIM serves as a pivotal shared service location within FWD Group, providing services to multiple markets across the Group. FWD TIM houses a diverse and talented workforce focused on essential business and technology services such as information security, cloud operations, IT solutions delivery, digital and data, actuarial, finance, investments, and customer service, among many others. FWD TIM is dedicated to driving and delivering operational excellence and efficiency, fostering innovation and ensuring regulatory compliance across all business functions while maintaining a competitive edge in the market.

Purpose

• Lead the Agile development process and reach the goal of each sprint.
• Engage in project planning, such as budget, human and computing resource allocation.
• Supervise a team of developers to finish milestones on time.
• Discuss with users and provide project timeline, milestones and regular updates to senior management.
• Collect and analyze user requirements, conduct impact analysis and implement the system design.
• Deliver a quality solution and strive for better implementation in terms of code efficiency and reusability.
• Write and review technical documentation such as functional specifications, technical specifications, ER diagrams, data flow and network diagrams.
• Provide ongoing BAU support for existing systems.
• Implement computer system requirements by defining and analyzing system problems.
• Organize a code review session and decide a set of automated test cases.
• Ensure applications in both desktop and mobile are compatible across different major browsers.
• Provide suggestions on UX/UI design of the system’s layout.

Key Accountabilities

• Review current technology and drive ways to leverage and improve productivity.
• Select the right technology solutions for building the regional end‑to‑end sales platform.
• Work closely with product manager and project team members to deliver quality projects and services.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Maintain and measure the quality of project deliverables within defined and agreed project requirements.
• Be responsible for the development, maintenance and system support of the existing in‑house systems.
• Ensure quality programming, system testing and documentation.
• Maintain good communication and coordination with team members and users.
• Perform systems administration and daily IT operation tasks.
• Lead the Agile Development Life Cycle.
• Deliver the solution using CI/CD pipeline.
• Organize Agile ceremonies.
• Prepare and write test cases.
• Design high‑level data workflow and architecture.
• Deploy the solution into different environments such as Kubernetes, Linux or Windows servers.

Key Performance Indicators

Business indicators:

• Manage to deliver IT projects to align with business growth strategies (as defined in the annual performance review).

Technical indicators:

• Projects Delivered on Budget: track your capacity to stay within budgets.

• IT Support Employees per End Users: ratio support employees vs end‑users.

• Number of trainings or certificates acquired per year.

• Number of project deliverables per year.

• Manage to meet the preset standard per the IT Service Level Agreement (SLA).

External & Internal Contacts

• FWD local IT teams (Internal)
• Infra team
• Information Security team
• Solution delivery team
• Project team
• FWD business owners (Internal)
• Operation team / Distribution team / Platform team / Finance team
• IT external vendors (External)

Decision Making

• Recommendations on IT solutions, design & approach.
• Decide methodology to implement the requirement.
• Provide ideas to improve implementation workflow.
• Decide how to break down programming tasks and allocate tasks for junior developers.

Qualifications / Experience

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 6 years of application development experience.
• Strong insurance knowledge, problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Strong leadership experience. Proven track record in managing regional‑based front‑end systems, preferably with experience implementing IT systems/projects to support Asian countries.

Knowledge & Technical Skills

• Good knowledge in container deployment, Kubernetes, API Gateway, Client/Server, MVC, OOP, RDBMS, automated testing and Internet/Intranet environment.
• Proficient in Agile development approach.
• Proficient in Java Spring Boot, Node JS and React JS / React Native.
• Exemplify good interpersonal communication skills at all levels of business users, IT, partners and vendors.
• Good command in both written & spoken English or Cantonese (Mandarin).
• Broad understanding of the technology industry, including current and emerging digital solutions.
• Deep appreciation of latest and emerging technologies and practices, such as DevOps, Cloud, Microservices and Mobile development.

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