Vice President, IT Development

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent business/system analysis, design, QA, troubleshooting and making recommendations;
• Provide the development function for the design, development and unit testing of business features delivered through multiple teams;
• Provide technical direction and work with developer productivity through solid design and development processes along with design pattern and reusability concepts;
• Follow the standardized development processes, design standards and coding standards to ensure consistent and high-quality deliverables;
• Influences and provides technical expertise on information systems designs and components to meet defined business needs and to ensure compatibility with enterprise and solution architectures;
• Responds to support requests on complex technical issues and client-specific programming requests to ensure business needs are met;
• Initiates and drives process and system improvement opportunities to increase development efficiencies and quality and to decrease costs and time-to-market, while advocating and encouraging nontraditional ideas;
• Ensure all the key functions in IT Development are delivered timely and professionally;
• Assist the development of systems in ensuring projects are within scope, budget, objectives, schedules, and resources commitments;
• Demonstrated discipline and success with Agile (Scrum) / DevOps development methodologies;
• Develop and test applications using COBOL/ MS.Net/ J2EE, on IBM AIX/ MS Intel/ MS DB/ Oracle DB, Visual Studio, and Access;
• Assist onshore and offshore teams across multiple locations;
• Maintain the relationships with internal and external service vendors to ensure superior service delivery for all application core technologies;
• Collaborate with the team for effective code branching/merge strategy to support parallel development across multiple teams;
• Coordination and communication with project resources, internal team, stakeholders and vendors on all aspects of project progression/status;
• Participate and handle ad hoc duties assigned by the Management;
• System rollout and support;
• Maintain & operate the batches of the core banking system.

Requirements

• Degree holder in Information Technology, Computer Studies or related disciplines in IT field;
• At least 8 years of solid experience in the Banking / Financial institution industry;
• Solid experience in mainframe / MS Intel development environment using COBOL, Microsoft.NET, C#, Visual Basic, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Access;
• Sound knowledge and solid experience in system architecture, technical design, and system development best practices;
• Sound knowledge and solid experience in SDLC methodologies, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Object Oriented Design and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA);
• Experience in Agile (Scrum) / DevOps development models, improving speed to go live and efficiency;
• PMP or equivalent certification;
• Experience in banking applications is an advantage;
• Able to work under pressure ad can work independently;
• Good command of spoken and written English and Chinese. Mandarin is a must.