Senior Technical Manager (Payment, Permanent)

GMP Technologies; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GMP Technologies in Singapore is seeking a Senior Technical Manager (Payment) to lead end-to-end software delivery for payments applications. You will oversee SDLC, drive quality, and coordinate across application teams to ensure timely releases and smooth production cutovers.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive IT project management experience in payments, familiarity with SDLC methodologies, and ability to align technical delivery with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field with 10+ years IT project management experience in financial/payments domain.
• Proven leadership of IT delivery teams and large-scale projects.
• Experience with functional and technical specifications and system development.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end software development processes for payments applications.
• Oversee QA and SDLC alignment, ensuring on-time delivery within budget.
• Plan cross-team dependencies and technical implementation for smooth production cutover.
• Collaborate with System Analysts, Business Analysts and SMEs to refine requirements and enhancements.
• Identify, track and escalate risks; provide status updates to PM and senior management.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Vendor management

Problem solving

Agile/Waterfall

Project management

SDLC governance

JIRA

MS Project

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

MS Project

Excel

Visio

Job description

Senior Technical Manager (Payment, Permanent)

About the job Senior Technical Manager (Payment, Permanent)

• Responsible for managing the end-to-end software development process, including analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, and support for respective applications.
• As Technical Manager, oversee the quality assurance of team deliveries in alignment with the defined software development life cycle (SDLC) methodology, tools, and deliverables, while planning technical deliverables, including system enhancements and upgrades, to meet project requirements within the allocated budget and schedule.
• Plan and collaborate across application teams and surrounding platforms to manage technical dependencies, while preparing and managing the technical implementation plan through coordinated activities to ensure smooth production cutover and adequate post-implementation support.
• Partner with System Analysts, Business Analysts, and SMEs to gather, understand, and finalize functional and technical requirements, collaborate with the development manager to manage application teams in building enhancements, and work with the test manager to ensure completion of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance testing, and security testing with quality results.
  
• Plan, monitor, and manage risks and issues related to technical delivery, provide status updates to the Project Manager (PM), and contribute system input to the specification phase, including effort estimates and a high-level delivery plan based on impact assessments.
  
• Escalate issues impacting project schedules in a timely manner, propose workarounds/solutions, and provide timely updates and reports to senior management.

Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, with a minimum of 10 years of experience in IT Project Management within the financial industry, specifically in the payments domain.
• Leadership experience in managing IT delivery teams and implementing large scale project.
• Experience in system development work with prior experience in functional, technical specifications and system development.
• Proficiency in JIRA, MS Project, Excel, Visio.
• Good understanding and experience in software development cycle (Waterfall or Agile best practices).
• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non technical stakeholders.
• Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills.
• Strong negotiation skills and vendor project management skills.
• Experience in vendor product management will be an added advantage.