Head of IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• To lead in the system design and implementation of new projects or on-going changes to business applications at agreed timelines.
• To perform root cause analysis on incidents.
• To perform analysis, assessment, and design on application new initiative.
• Identify opportunities to improve system stability.
• Ensure changes comply to internal & external regulatory requirements.
• Execute System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Support in the evaluation and procurement of systems solutions to meet business requirements
• Requirement Analysis - ensure completeness of the business & system requirements
• Manage and monitor environment readiness
• Conduct System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Review User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test scripts
• Quality Control - Manage and control changes to the application objects to ensure system integrity
• Implementation - Manage, coordinate and execute deployment activities
• To lead in ensuring successful delivery of business project implementations and initiatives within budget, scope and timeline, where applicable
• Guide, coach and supervise team members in ensuring all of the above are completed and executed successfully, where applicable.
• Ensure compliance to the internal control and standards and also to comply with regulatory requirements.
• Ensure SDLC documentation for new systems/enhancement is in order as per GIS guideline and procedure.
• Execute corrective and remediation measures with the relevant parties relating to audit findings, ensuring actions are taken within deadline.
• Support in the planning, managing and testing of DRP and BCP of business applications to achieve successful fail-over when the situation arises.
• Be guided in the follow-up on commitments related to audit finding, ensuring actions are taken within deadline.
• Be guided in managing and controlling changes to the application objects to ensure integrity of the system
• Assist in managing and controlling changes to the application objects to ensure integrity of the system

Requirements:

• Project management and implementation of digital banking applications
• Experienced in managing stakeholders and vendors
• Experienced in leading and managing troubleshooting sessions from application perspective
• Able to coach and guide team members
• Able to lead, manage and deliver multiple projects at any one time
• Hands on experience in the management and systems support of digital banking applications
• Min 5 years of experience in IT application systems
• Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or any related fields
• Good working knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle
• Good working knowledge of banking applications especially on digital banking related applications
• Container platform working experience would have an added advantage
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong customer service culture and effective problem solving skills
• Experience working with AIX, LINUX and Windows environment
• Basic knowledge on Oracle, MySQL and DB2