Technical Delivery Manager (COBOL, Cards)

PERSOL Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

PERSOL Singapore is seeking a Senior Delivery Lead to steer a regional applications team responsible for global cards solutions. You will plan deliverables, coordinate with domain teams, and act as liaison to Cards Technology, ensuring delivery within budget and schedule.

The role requires extensive experience with cards processing, mainframe tech (COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS), online and batch processing, and a hands-on approach to ensure the team builds to the approved plan.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' delivery record in global/cards projects with budget responsibility.
• Experience leading an application development team for banking/financial services.
• Strong knowledge of Cards applications (Cardlink, VisionPlus).
• Proficient in mainframe tech: COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS.
• Deep Cards domain knowledge: processing, issuing, acquiring, authorizations, settlement.
• Experience with online and batch processing in Cards context.
• Familiarity with 3DS, Rewards, Cards APIs and related processes.
• Open systems and Cloud tech stack awareness; vendor and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of application developers to plan technical deliverables within budget and schedule.
• Collaborate across domain teams to manage technical and security dependencies.
• Act as liaison/escalation point to Cards Technology team.
• Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues; provide L3 support as needed.
• Provide status updates related to technical delivery.
• Work with PMs, BAs and system analysts to finalize requirements.
• Coordinate with Architects, Security and Development Lead on solution design.
• Ensure hands-on delivery aligned with the solution plan.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, performance/load testing and security testing with QA.

Skills

Delivery record

Team management

Cards tech

Mainframe COBOL

Mainframe VSAM

Mainframe JCL

Mainframe CICS

Cards domain

Online and batch

Cloud tech

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of application development to plan technical deliverables to meet project's requirements within allocated budget and schedule.
• Plan & collaborate across different domain application teams to manage technical and security related dependencies of the solution
• Manage pre-approved project and be the liaison/escalation point to Cards Technology team
• Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to technical application delivery and to provide L3 support as needed
• Provide status update related to technical delivery
• Partner with Program and/or Project Manager managers, Business analysts and system analysts to collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements
• Partner with SA & subject matter experts to understand and implement functional and technical requirements
• Provide systems input to specification phase (e.g., effort estimates, high-level delivery plan) based on impact assessment (e.g., function points)
• Partner with Architects, Security and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards
• Have a hands-on approach to ensure that the application teams build the enhancements according to the solution plan
• Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of SIT, UAT, performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results

Skills/Requirement

• 10+ years' delivery record in developing and delivering global / regional Cards solutions for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility
• Experience in managing an application development team in implementing large-scale cards projects for banking or financial services
• Strong Technical and platform knowledge on Cards application (e.g. Cardlink, VisionPlus, etc)
• Strong knowledge on mainframe technologies (COBOL, VSAM, JCL and CICS)
• Strong Cards domain knowledge covering Core processing, issuing, acquiring, authorizations, settlement and loans
• Strong Cards Domain knowledge on both online and batch processing
• Good knowledge on Cards processing surround applications such as 3DS, Rewards, Cards APIs, Upstream and downstream processing
• Good knowledge on open system applications and Cloud tech stack
• Manage vendor, stakeholders and handle people management effectively

We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.