Lead System Manager, Central Banking & Devt Platforms Div (RRM)

[What the role is]

You will be part of a dynamic team within the Central Banking and Development Division under Information Technology Department, responsible for managing the systems that support reserves and securities management in MAS. These responsibilities involve supporting front to back office processing of MAS’s in-house portfolios and middle and back office processing of externally managed portfolios. You are also expected to understand and support the linkages between these systems and other market infrastructures such MAS’ real-time gross settlement system and SWIFT.

[What you will be working on]

In this role, the officer is expected to lead an Applications team, and undertake the following areas of work:

• Provide leadership to an applications team

  • Manage team resources, motivate and engage staff to improve team’s performance

  • To lead the transformation of team, practices and technology to increase business affinity, technology modernization, resilience and sustainability, and operational efficiency

• Manage senior and working level stakeholders across business and technology

  • Establish strategic relationships with product owners and sponsors to co-develop product requirements and strategy

• Application, service, and system ownership

  • Own and manage a suite of application systems

  • Own and manage a portfolio of digital services

  • To manage the applications and services as a portfolio

• Solution design - In an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team on

  • Business analysis and functional design

    • Develop actionable insights into business operations and processes

    • Elicit, shape, scope, and manage business requirements through rigorous and appropriate methods of information gathering and collaboration with stakeholders

    • Design solutions that are consistent with business and technology objectives

    • Develop the solution’s business case in collaboration with stakeholders, and co-champion it

  • Technology analysis and solution design – In an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team to

    • Design the application technology solution, for both bespoke applications (custom developed) and COTS based solutions

• Project and product delivery and quality – in an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team to

  • Plan and manage IT projects and product, and ensure alignment of project and product to the business objectives within established scope, cost and schedule

  • Quality: Assure the quality of systems and applications, including the establishment of quality management technology, and systems and processes for applications development, testing and delivery

• Operations and maintenance, User support – in an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team to

  • Establish reliable operations of the applications and digital service in the portfolio

  • Conduct maintenance and technology lifecycle management on the applications and systems

  • Establish and operationalize user support and user enablement activities, to ensure systems are used to their best effect and deliver ongoing value to users

• Governance, Risk, Compliance – in an individual capacity, and to provide leadership to the team to

  • Ensure compliance to ICT Governance policies and standards

  • Establish quality and mechanisms for systemic quality across all applications and systems

  • Establish risk management for applications systems

• Partner and vendor arrangements and resourcing

  • Design and establish vendor and resourcing arrangements, contracts, service levels for the delivery and management of digital services, systems and technology

[What we are looking for]

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree with minimally 10 years of relevant working experience in system portfolio and application management, IT business analysis, solution design, project and product management and system operations and maintenance.

• Experience in

  • Trade management process (e.g. trade execution, compliance monitoring, confirmation matching) and financial instruments (e.g. bond, FX spot/ swaps)

  • Managing projects and product development using waterfall methods and/or agile methods;

  • Applications operations management

  • Establishing vendor contracts, and managing IT vendor performance

• Expertise in

  • IT Business analysis

  • Software quality management

  • Applications technology in handling Commercial-Of-The-Shelf software

• Expertise in the following will be an advantage

  • S.W.I.F.T messaging platform and infrastructure

  • SimCorp Dimension®

  • Application technology, particularly in the area of containers, DevOps, microservices and cloud technologies

• Good decision-making skills and response to high-pressure situations.

• Resourceful and possess excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

• Good analytical skills, and able to multi-task and deliver results in a timely manner

• Effective people management skills with positive attitude and drive

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.