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.
Responsibilities
Job Description
Reporting to the Head of Digital Banking Technology, you will play a pivotal role in leading the technical delivery and development for our Digital Group Wholesale Banking platforms, UOB Infinity and UOB TMRW Business Banking as a new digital banking experience that streamlines businesses banking needs, such as cash management and trade finance.
- Technical leadership - provide support of UOB commercial and business banking payments platforms implementation under a major transformation program. Be responsible for the overall delivery of the new digital applications and services, besides underlying payments platform and migrate existing schemes including country-specific schemes into the new platform.
- Management oversight - provide leadership and guidance to technical Chapter Leads and other senior IT professionals. Build and maintain strong collaborative partnership with business and product teams.
- Provide thought leadership and facilitate the sharing of knowledge between the digital bank team and across other UOB teams to strengthen capabilities and the organization's ability to respond to business and customer needs. You will drive strategies, technical roadmaps and implementation within the digital bank portfolio.
- Drive digital transformation support and drive digital business and technology change through organisational, cultural, behavioural and process changes. Champion change initiatives and provide guidance and support on the design, implementation and communication of each initiative.
- Support the Team - build up the right capabilities within your team; equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence. Ensure that they are deployed to value-creation opportunities sometimes in long-term roles supporting the business, but more often to the small, independent squads.
- Build Capabilities you'll be responsible for building an organisational capability to support a value-creation line; shepherding people along their career paths; evaluating and promoting people; and building standard tools, methods, and ways of working in collaboration with the Chapters and the Platform/Tribe Coaches.
- Manage by empowerment you'll manage external (vendors) and internal resources, evaluate, promote, coach, and develop his or her people, but without traditional direct oversight. You have the responsibility to supervise the day-to-day (quality, velocity, productivity, resourcing, vendor management) in collaboration with team members and the Platform / Tribes / Squads.
Requirements
- You'll typically have more than 15 years technical and delivery experience, preferably in a banking or wholesale/transaction banking environment; equivalent experience and skills also considered.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to transform traditional development organisations into high performance squads.
- Ability to nurture individual Tribe Leads into high performing rock stars.
- Ideally have managed teams in excess of 100 Developers.
- Deep experience in:
- Ensuring technical execution, planning, advice, support, and mentoring of developers, architects and analysts
- Leading technical execution and delivery of new initiatives from inception to production as well as providing operational support for solutions in production. This entails working across distributed and matrixed teams.
- Managing offshore teams in a scaled agile framework working under the direct supervision of UOB technical delivery leads
- Determining resource requirements and procures resources; manage project and/or program contract resources.
- Extremely strong understanding on all architecture layers.
- As a practitioner, experience in mixed development methodologies including waterfall development and Agile delivery
Additional Requirements
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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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