Deputy/assistant Director, Central Banking

[What the role is]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore - banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

[What you will be working on]

The IT Department is responsible for the project management, design, implementation and operational support of IT Applications in MAS. The teams manages and ensures the smooth operations and delivery of IT projects that serves the Financial Industry as well as MAS users. You will be part of the Central Banking & Devt Platforms division, responsible for managing the systems supporting the monetary management platform which facilitate the issuance of Singapore Government Securities.

In this role, the officer is expected to undertake the following areas of work:

- Application, service, and system ownership:

- Establish relationships with product owners and sponsors to co-develop product requirements and strategy
- Solution design - In an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team to:

- Business analysis and functional design
- Develop actionable insights into business operations and processes
- Elicit, shape, scope, and manage business requirements through rigorous and appropriate methods of information gathering and collaboration with stakeholders
- Design solutions that are consistent with business and technology objectives
- Develop the solution’s business case in collaboration with stakeholders, and co-champion it
- Project and product delivery and quality:

- Plan and manage IT projects, and ensure alignment of project to the business objectives within established scope, cost and schedule
- Operations and maintenance, User support:

- Establish and operationalize user support and user enablement activities, to ensure systems are used to their best effect and deliver ongoing value to users
- Governance, Risk, Compliance:

- Ensure compliance to ICT Governance policies and standards
- Partner and vendor arrangements and resourcing
- Design and establish vendor and resourcing arrangements, contracts, service levels for the delivery and management of digital services, systems and technology

You will be working in a fast-paced environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and needs of stakeholders, as well as the agility to respond to changes and developments.

[What we are looking for]
- Experience in:

- Managing projects and product development using waterfall methods and/or agile methods;
- Establhing vendor contracts, and managing IT vendor performance
- Managing operations, handling of issues, and systems monitoring
- Expertise in:

- IT Business analysis
- Software quality management
- Expertise in the following will be an advantage:

- Application technology, particularly in the area of containers, microservices and cloud technologies
- Understanding of financial instruments, esp Singapore Government Securities

**Soft Skill**
- Able to work independently as well as in a team
- Ability to work with details and time-sensitive issues.
- Good decision-making skills and response to high-pressure situations.
- Strong interpersonal communication and organizing skills to coordinate project activities.
- Resourceful and possess excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Good analytical skills, and able to mulit-task and deliver results in a timely manner
- Effective people management skills with positive attitude and drive
- All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting. _
- As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment._