Senior Vp, Application Services Development Head

**About UOB**:
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

**About the Department**:
Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations.

We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure.

Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing.

**Responsibilities**:

- Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to technical delivery
- Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions
- Partner with Program managers and Business Solution Specialist to collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements
- Plan technical deliverables (combination of host and distributed platforms) to meet project’s requirements within allocated budget and schedule.
- Engage and collaborate with Architects, Security and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards
- Build exceptional peer relationships with key stakeholders and be able to influence key outcomes
- Demonstrate energy and ability to function in an intense & complex environment demonstrating initiative and operating with an ownership attitude to deliver results.

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar domain. Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory
- More than 15 years’ track record in developing and delivering global / regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility
- More than 10 years’ leadership experience in managing IT delivery teams
- Strong technical/platform knowledge mainframe (Cics/Cobol), distributed platforms and middleware (Linux/Unix, Oracle databases, Java platforms and web containers like WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss EAP)
- Exceptional business domain knowledge covering areas of cards, remote commerce, portals, collections, loyalty rewards and open banking
- Experience in executing large-scale Cards technology transformation. A good understanding of the credit card industry and functions of HSM and different types of keys is essential.
- Experience in running both Waterfall and hybrid Agile projects
- Experience in managing and implementing large-scale projects covering multiple domains
- Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- Strong customer service focus with the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.
- Should demonstrate a disruptive innovative mindset that will make innovation mainstream and help the business take strides in an extremely competitive environment
- Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience
- Proven track record of running a cross functional horizontal team, supporting multiple delivery teams
- A strong awareness of both external and internal best practice perspectives, maintaining a balanced and fresh viewpoint.
- Highly effective communicating with senior technical stakeholders and equally proficient communicating with business stakeholders
- Good problem-solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
- An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels.

**Be a part of UOB Family**: