About the Job
You are responsible for designing and developing comprehensive microservices solutions, lead a team to build solutions that meet business requirements. You will need to partner with key roles (e.g. project managers, business analysts, vendors etc.) to craft solutions that are aligned to architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services and meet timeline and financial targets. You should have a strong track record to deliver high-quality software.
- Design and build function-centric solutions in microservices architecture.
- Outline the governance and microservices development guiding principles as well as ensuring the best practices are followed by the development team.
- Work collaboratively with an agile, scrum-based team to understand the business domain and client requirements that drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality technical solutions and deliverables. These solutions cross a broad spectrum of technologies and must align with business and IT strategies and to comply with the organization's architectural and security standards.
- Participate in coordinated planning sessions and provide effort estimates for business initiatives of IT solutions.
- Well versed with SDLC, Agile, CI/CD methodologies. Strong knowledge of Continuous Delivery, version control, branching strategy and code management.
- Work with project manager, business analyst, infrastructure, vendor and other internal team to deliver project releases from initiation until completion.
- Manage systems dependencies among the multiple releases and highlight to project manager on the potential risk and issue.
- Control and monitor quality of vendor deliverables to ensure standard and best practices are adhered.
- Coordinate with testers during SIT and UAT to ensure defects are managed.
- Work with the various Business and IT stakeholders to create a detailed technical analysis, outlining problems, and suggest solutions to fixes and enhancements.
- Troubleshooting application issues, coding bugs, and bottlenecks.
- Support BAU activities (security patching, deployment, etc.) and ensure application performance meets the required SLA / SLO.
- Conducting system performance tests.
- Maintaining the security of all system applications.
- Provide communication to all stakeholders to ensure deliverables are delivered.
We are looking for people who
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of handson experience developing applications using Java/J2EE, with Spring boot framework knowledge and experience.
- Advanced skills implementing SOA, API and microservices architecture using any of the market leading solutions.
- Experience in implementing business critical, high volume, and highly available services is a must.
- A strong hands-on development track records building integration and application utilizing a variety of technologies, development tools and database systems.
- Experience with containerization and cloud technologies (Tanzu, TKGI platform, Kubernetes, Dockers, AWS) as well as DevOps and testing tools (Bamboo/GIT, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, Harbour, Selenium, SonarQube).
- Experience with cloud-based, CI/CD or DevOps development environment.
- Understanding of TOGAF or other formal architecture frameworks is desired.
- Good communication skills both in writing and verbally with ability to present the complex ideas or technical solution to business and/or management team.
- Domain knowledge in Financial Services industry is desirable.
- Problem solver with ability to see things in multiple angles, constantly challenge the norm and constantly looking for better solutions to problems.
- Strong presenter being able to articulate differentiated value to a wide range of audiences.
- Independent team member being able to make judgements calls in a fast-changing environment with limited or ambiguous information.
How you succeed
- Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
- Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
- Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
- Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
- Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.
Who we are
Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.
The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of AA- by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world's most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody's and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and
stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World's Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.
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