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Assistant VP, Application Support Lead, Production Services(Application Platforms)

Employer
United Overseas Bank
Location
Singapore, Singapore
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jul 15, 2022

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Assistant VP, Application Support Lead, Production Services(Application Platforms)

Posting Date: 25-Jun-2022

Location: SG, Alexandra

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
  • Team Lead of Level 2 Application Support Analysts with people management responsibility
  • Lead cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve, communicate complex incidents and deep underlying issues
  • Conduct performance analysis and fine tuning of real time and batch systems
  • Assess operational readiness of new products / applications / flows. Drive non-functional requirements
  • Manage production defect changes and work closely with Development teams to provide strong governance for control for the applications in scope
  • Manage Vendor for prioritization of issues, continuous service improvement, process improvement, cost management and audit issues. Conduct Monthly service review track SLAs adherence from vendors. Manage workload which is subject to changing priorities and demands
  • Ensure essential process / procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards. Drive the change in culture to ensure Production Support best practices is implemented while ensuring partnerships with developers and business partners are strengthened
  • Execute continuous service improvement plan, process improvement and automation
  • Act as a facilitator and coordinate between various teams like Infrastructure, development team to resolve, analysis of root cause for complex issues and outages
  • Work across multiple application management areas and support teams to ensure high level of support service
  • Communicate and interact with infrastructure and supporting technology groups across a distributed environment to drive problem resolution and service levels
  • Work closely with 1st & 2nd level support and development teams to ensure team is meeting the business' requirements. Ensure team delivers on these priorities and communicated progress effectively to all stakeholders
  • Follow through to ensure incidents and problems are resolved according to SLA


Job Requirements
  • Minimum 12 years of experience working in IT in Technology solutions or support service delivery in the banking industry
  • 8-10 years' solid experience in Java/J2EE, MQ, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, WebLogic, Web Service, JBoss, Oracle, UNIX & Microservices environment
  • Experience in writing scripts, database queries, generating capacity and performance reports
  • Ideally certified with ITIL
  • Domain knowledge in Payment and Credit / Loan Origination (Consumer/Retails/Corporate loans) is preferred
  • Prior experience in large scale enterprise application development, capacity planning, optimization, re-engineering, and performance fine tuning and cost optimization
  • Demonstrate accountability, leadership, independent initiatives and willingness to lead
  • Strong team player with management skills. Flexible and being able to manage time effectively
  • Able to work with sense of urgency under multiple deadlines and successfully organize and complete tasks with minimal supervision
  • Experience in leading Production Support group in a high availability / mission critical environment.
  • Ability to technically analyse problems encountered with these systems and employing technical skills to overcome them
  • Experience in managing communications across business and technology stakeholders at varying levels across a medium to large scale enterprise
  • Design and deliver solution for reliability, stability and consistency. Passion to achieve efficiency/predictability through automation and engineering
  • Ability to work in a team environment
  • Ability to handle high stress and pressure situations and lead by example
  • Proven ability to communicate and develop long lasting relationships with all levels of management in a clear, concise manner
  • Strong problem-solving and program execution skills while being process orientated
  • Self-motivating and delivery-focused individual
  • Ability to understand the big picture - can step back and understand the context of problems before applying analytical skills to address the issues


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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