Senior Manager

The Digital Transformation, Innovation & Data Division (DTID) is the business transformation office to drive A*STAR towards a digitally enabled and data-driven organisation. The office is responsible to define the digital vision, formulate digital strategies and develop the digital roadmap to frame and provide directions towards our digitalization efforts. DTID acts as the catalyst in driving digital transformation and is the bridge between business owners and technology supports. As the central office, DTID performs the role as the horizontal integrator to synergise and harmonise digital efforts and drive complex and cross-cutting digital initiatives for A*STAR. Beyond business-technology, the roles of DTID also entails the raising of digitally skilled and creative workforce to empower our workforce to harness digital technology and embrace business transformation. To support digitalization efforts, the office is also responsible to set digital/data policies and put in place governance and standards.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage organisation?s data management platform project end-to-end delivery, including support and maintenance phases.
- Manage project?s business and technical requirements, tendering and procurement of projects and/or services
- Work closely with the Data Engineering & Data Analytics Teams to understand and finalize functional and technical requirements
- Manage project with vendors to ensure project deliverables meet project?s requirements within budget and schedule.
- Plan and collaborate across various stakeholders and teams to manage technical dependencies of the solution
- Plan, monitor, track and manage risks/issues related to project delivery with the vendors
- Work closely with vendors to ensure solution design complies with organisation?s data policy & governance, data security and GovTech?s Instruction Manual for ICT & SS Management
- Work closely with vendors to ensure completion of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance / load testing and system security testing with quality results
- Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions
- Provide regular status updates to Management
- Perform knowledge management with proper project documentations and records

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor?s Degree in computer science, information technology, business computing, business analytics, software/computer engineering or related disciplines
- More than 8 years experiences in front-end consultations & solutioning (internally with stakeholders and externally with vendors), vendors management, managing and delivering data and analytics systems/platforms (preferably at enterprise or organisation level)
- Experience in software/system life cycle, functional and technical specifications, and system/unit level testing
- Excellent communications skills with various stakeholders, both internally within division/organisation and externally with vendors and technology partners.
- Demonstrate leadership in leading a complex project and delivering solutions/systems
- Forward thinking approach to challenges with outstanding influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills
- Resourceful team player, and proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- Experience with Cloud Services & Infrastructure, and Data Warehousing services (Microsoft Cloud, AWS or Google Cloud), Snowflakes, Denodo and data quality tools are highly valued
- Experience with building or working with data flows and pipelines, and understanding of size and performance constraints will be an added advantage
- Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
- A natural mentor and have a sense of knowledge sharing and focus on individual personal development
- High drive and self-motivated. Ability to think out of the box.

**Type of Employment**: Full-Time

**Minimum Experience**: 8 Years

**Work Location**: Fusionopolis