VP, Technical Delivery Manager, Group Technology

United Overseas Bank; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank is seeking a Technical Manager to lead the delivery of complex projects, ensuring scope, timeline and budget adherence while complying with bank policies and regulatory requirements. You will drive data and solution discussions across vendor teams, coordinate multi-vendor delivery, manage risks and governance meetings, and ensure end-to-end closure with strong stakeholder management.

This role requires an assertive communicator with strong execution ability and the capacity

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field; PMP preferred.
• Technical Manager with 8+ years in banking/financial services.
• Experience in large-scale multi-interface regional projects.
• Experience delivering full SDLC / Agile projects.
• Strong communicator, both spoken and written.
• Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills.
• Self-starter, able to work independently.
• Able to work within ambiguity.
• Strong execution and end-to-end issue closure.
• Initiative in issue resolution; delivery-focused.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for successful execution and technical delivery of projects meeting scope, timeline and budget.
• Drive data, design and solution discussions with vendor, technology team and user groups.
• Lead multi-vendor teams to deliver solutions and manage them to support bank commitments.
• Provide status updates related to technical delivery to Project Manager.
• Partner with Solution and Enterprise Architects to deliver technical innovations.
• Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure design complies with standards.
• Work with Test manager to formulate comprehensive system test plan aligned with scope and quality.
• Identify and raise risks and issues affecting the project and manage them with escalation.
• Manage relationships across business lines and external parties, including escalation and scope changes.
• Organise and chair governance meetings, including minutes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Delivery-focused

Multi-vendor leadership

Project governance

Self-starter

Ambiguity handling

End-to-end delivery

Initiative

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Engineering

PMP certification

Job description

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the successful execution and technical delivery of projects that meet scope, timeline and budget, in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements.
• Drive the data, design and solution discussions with vendor, technology team and user groups.
• Lead multi-vendor teams to successfully deliver solutions, manage multi-vendor teams to work amicably to support the bank’s commitments
• Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager
• Partner with Solution and Enterprise Architects to deliver technical innovations in support of emerging business needs and to progress these ideas from concepts to working solutions
• Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards
• Work with Test manager to formulate comprehensive system test plan aligned with project scope/Change request, quality requirements and targets
• Identify and raise risks and issues affecting the project, including financial or operation and proactively managing them, with timely escalation to relevant parties where necessary.
• Manage relationships across all business lines and with external parties, including escalation, expectation, conflict and scope changes to ensure timely delivery of assigned activities.
• Organise and chair governance meetings, including preparation of meeting materials and minutes.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or other relevant disciplines; PMP certified preferred
• Technical Manager with more than 8 years of relevant experience in banking or financial services industry
• Good and proven fundamental knowledge of regional project implementation for large-scale, multi-interfaces applications
• Experience in delivering projects in full Software Development Life Cycle / Agile methodologies
• A strong and assertive communicator in speaking and writing
• Have good organizational skills and stakeholder management skills, with experience at coordinating multiple stakeholders in a diverse organization
• Be a self-starter, and able to work independently
• Able to work within ambiguity
• Have strong execution ability and able to see end-to-end closure of issues
• Demonstrate good initiative in issue resolution
• Result-oriented person with focus on delivery