Development Lead, Cards

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.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 is a UOB-wholly owned subsidiary providing software application development, testing and maintenance for the UOB Group. We are dynamic and passionate about delivering innovative financial technology that enables business growth and transformation.

As the Development Lead for Cards, you will be responsible for collaborating, engaging, and working with stakeholders from project inception, analysis, design, development, testing to pre- and post-deployment phases. Your key objective is to ensure good quality and smooth delivery of cards technology system enhancements that are fully in compliance with mandated framework and guidelines.

Your role will involve management of project technical delivery with a view for end-to-end flow, requirements management, active engagement/participation in design and development, management of testing requirements, and planning for deployment and support.

• Lead, build and manage a team of system analysts and developers supporting cards platform and strategic projects across the UOB franchise.
• Champion the delivery of high quality cards systems design and ensure adherence to global architecture principles, enterprise design principles, security and control standards.
• Build the team's capabilities to consistently maintain the repository of system features inventory and data maps for the cards domain.
• 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.
• Lead and engage in innovative problem-solving activities, requiring conceptual thinking creating 'out of the box' solutions with prototypes and pilots.
• Partner with Architects 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 impact project schedule on a timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions.

• Degree qualified and must have working knowledge with LINUX/UNIX environment.
• At least 6 years of Delivery, Project, Stakeholder & Vendor Management experience, team management.
• Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience.
• Hands-on experience on Oracle database and working knowledge in PL/SQL.
• Hands-on experience in Web servers (such as JBoss Webserver, Apache etc.) and Java platform/J2EE and Java web container (such as WebLogic, JBoss EAP, JBoss Webserver Tomcat, IBM WebSphere etc).
• Experience in implementing large-scale, highly available applications or other large project implementation.
• Experience in service-oriented technologies.
• Good understanding and experience in software development cycle.
• Good to have knowledge on DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, GIT.
• Good to have knowledge on Control M batch processing tool.

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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