- 1-year contract, renewable
- Government project
- Hybrid work arrangement
Responsibility
Strategic Project Leadership
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver complex, technically intensive ICT projects on time and within budget.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans covering system migration, platform upgrades, and cloud adoption workstreams, ensuring alignment with business and architectural objectives.
- Define and monitor project KPIs, including migration milestones, regression benchmarks, and cloud cost metrics, providing regular performance reports to senior management.
- Proactively identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks, particularly those arising from version compatibility, integration dependencies, and cloud environment transitions.
- Oversee multiple vendor relationships, including middleware vendors, cloud service providers, and external ICT service providers.
Operational Excellence
- Drive seamless business operations across departments through effective IT service delivery
- Ensure strict adherence to Service Level Agreements for both projects and incidents
- Evaluate and assess change requests for system enhancements and improvements
- Monitor and optimise operational performance through data-driven metrics
- Manage daily IT operations, swiftly resolving application, infrastructure, and security issues
Technical Delivery & Quality Assurance
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver complex, technically intensive ICT projects on time and within budget.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans covering system migration, platform upgrades, and cloud adoption workstreams, ensuring alignment with business and architectural objectives.
- Define and monitor project KPIs, including migration milestones, regression benchmarks, and cloud cost metrics, providing regular performance reports to senior management.
- Proactively identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks, particularly those arising from version compatibility, integration dependencies, and cloud environment transitions.
Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate effectively with cross-functional teams (i.e. application/infrastructure teams)
- Facilitate training sessions and system implementation
- Build strong relationships with business units to understand and meet their IT needs
- Provide regular updates to management on project status and operational metrics through different forums (i.e. Project Steering Committee meetings etc.)
- Foster collaborative environment that promotes team success
Requirement
- Tertiary education in Computer/Computer Science or Electronics Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent.
- Project Management Certification or equivalent
- Proven track record managing at least 2 full-cycle ICT projects using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies, with at least one involving a major platform migration or system upgrade
- 4 years of hands-on project management experience in Java application upgrades, including dependency management, regression testing coordination, and version compatibility assessment
- Experience managing middleware upgrade projects, with understanding of integration patterns, message brokering, API dependencies, and service continuity during transitions
- Demonstrated experience delivering or overseeing cloud projects such as cloud governance compliance, operational
- Experience managing projects involving business rules management systems or decision automation platforms, with an understanding of rule lifecycle management, versioning, and regression validation
- Strong background in enterprise Java (J2EE)
- Demonstrated expertise in enterprise IT governance and security frameworks
- Experience troubleshooting complex application, infrastructure, and security challenges, particularly in Singapore government settings
