About the Job
- The Lead Software Engineer will work with respective business users, business analysts, project managers and other stakeholders and take ownership to ensure the overall delivery of project, system enhancement and initiatives based on the committed project timelines and quality.
- In addition, the candidate is also required to manage the planning and execution of daily, monthly batch job processing in a way to meet the system SLA.
- Lead and manage Software Engineers on impact assessment, system design, development, testing, implementation and post-deployment verification.
- Design and develop solutions as according to user requirements by meeting the agreeable timeline, quality and performance standards.
- Analyze functional and technical solution requirements and participate in functional and technical solution specifications.
- Hands on development experience in Java/J2EE applications, Oracle PL/SQL Programming and able to deliver tasks independently.
- Participate in source code reviews, code merges and review of code quality.
- Coordinate and work with business users, business analysts, project managers and other stakeholders on day to day basis on SIT, UAT and Production Support, users queries and database related issues.
- Be able to analyze logs from servers and troubleshoot issues.
- Develop Restful Web Services in J2EE using JAX-RS and other libraries. Strong understanding of the web services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
- Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
- Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
We are looking for people who
- Preferable Degree in Computer Science, Business Information System, Insurance or related field.
- At least 8-12 years of relevant working experience.
- Proven track record in leading and managing a team of developers.
- Strong design and programming skills in Java and server side related technologies. (Java, J2EE, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate, REST APIs).
- Strong technical skills in SQL, PL/SQL Programming.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment with minimum direction and management oversight.
- Knowledge and experience with micro services will be added advantage.
- Knowledge in container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) will be added advantage.
- Experience in DevOps tools will be added advantage.
- Experience in Insurance domain will be added advantage.
- Strong leadership, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
- Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.
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.
To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
