SVP, Business Intelligence Technical Delivery - Data

SVP, Business Intelligence Technical Delivery - Data

Posting Date: 17-May-2022

Location: Alexandra, Singapore, SG

Company: United Overseas Bank Limited

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
The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

Job Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the technical deliveries of project in the data analytics domain. This includes pre-project planning, analysis and design to development, implementation, testing and support. You will be expected to work on Enterprise data warehouse (GDW/EDW/DWH) and Data Marts.
Other responsibilities include:

• Plan technical deliverables (including any system enhancements and upgrades) to meet project's requirements within allocated budget and schedule.
• Plan & collaborate across different application teams to manage technical dependencies of the solution
• Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to technical delivery
• Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager (PM)
• Partner with System Analysts and Business Solution Specialist to collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements
• Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards
• Partner with Development Manager in managing application teams to build the enhancements
• Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results
• Manage technical implementation plan across application teams - coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support
• Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions

Job Requirements

• 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 5 years leadership experience in managing IT delivery teams
• Experience in implementing large-scale project implementation
• Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
• Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience (in aggregate no less than 8 years)
• Good understanding and experience in software development cycle
• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
• Functional knowledge of Retail bank, Wholesale, Global Markets, Finance, Risk and Compliance oriented products & business processes

Exposure to Data Analytics tool and technology which are not limited to Data Warehouse & Big data tools:

• Data Integration tools - Informatica PC, DQ, MM, Teradata GCFR, MDM, Spark SQL
• Database - Teradata, Oracle, NoSQL
• Reporting - MS Power BI, Qlik, OBIEE, Tableau, BO
• Distributed Computing - Cloudera, SPARK, Teradata Vantage
• Decision Management Product - Adobe, Unica, Experian, FICO
• Analytical Tools - SAS, Microsoft R, Cloudera Workbench
• Enterprise Scheduler Based Large Scale Data pipeline automation

Experience or certification in the below technologies will be an added advantage:

• Platforms provided by FICO, Experian, SAS for credit and portfolio management
• Financial services data models & data modeling tools and data governance processes
• Hadoop languages & tools - Spark, Python, R, Pig, Hue, Impala, Hive, Hbase, Informatica IDL
• Platforms such as Kubernetes or Openshift for deploying container-based workload
• Cloud-based deployments

Education
Bachelor's degree/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

What will help you succeed in this role

• Adopt an uncompromising attitude when it comes to quality and help raise bar of products and team members
• Be a team player who communicates effectively and professionally with both internal and external customers
• Make good technical decisions that provide solutions to business challenges
• Embrace tackling and resolving complex technical design issues
• Possess strong problem solving and decision-making skills while exercising good judgment
• Ability to understand the big picture - can step back and understand the context of problems before applying analytical skills to address the issues
• Proven ability to communicate and develop long lasting relationships with all levels of Management in a clear, concise manner
• Be able to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Good communication skills - ability to convey technical information to non-technical audience
• Facilitate communication between vendor, project team, business stakeholders and internal IT team

Be a part of UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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