Principal Software Engineer

Assistant Manager – Transformation and Architecture (Up to 65K) Responsibilities :

• Assist supervisor to develop IT project pipeline and communicate with stakeholders
• Assist supervisor to define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision to ensure the system or Solution is fit for its intended purpose and ongoing IT development
• Onboard proper technologies or approaches by taking consideration of benefits, on total cost of ownership including ease of management, such as event-driven architecture and request-driven architecture, distributed computing, and centralized management
• Manage IT expense and budget to align with IT and business strategy
• Plan, direct, control and deliver Technology enablement projects and Proof of Concept to ensure successful achievement of the implementation schedule, targeted result, and desired business benefit within budget
• Manage project risks & escalate project issues to Supervisor/Head of IT & Functional Business Heads
• Manage other projects or assignments as assigned

• University Degree in Computer Science or IT related disciplines
• Minimum 6 years' experience of delivering enterprise solutions
• A good understanding on insurance business, systems and processes
• Familiar with Containerization, Serverless, microservice architecture style
• Familiar with cloud services models (IaaS / SaaS / PaaS)
• Familiar with data governance principles, frameworks and best practices
• Proficiency in data management tools and technologies, such as data cleaning, metadata management, and data quality control
• Experience on project management, solution architecture design, various development approaches (TDD /BDD / DDD), technologies, frameworks, and/or other methodologies applicable to assigned domain
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with different business units, back-office teams and IT
• Previous experience in handling IT budget 

• Assist IT Managers to prepare and implement IT strategic plan ensuring the plans and goals are supporting the achievement of targeted financial measures
• Monitor IT systems, policies and procedures to ensure IT processes and systems are operating in the most efficient and efficient manner 
• Implement the Group compliance policy in order to adhere to the relevant compliance procedures
• Maintain key internal relationships to facilitate understanding and securing IT support to business and financial plans
• Design and develop comprehensive, robust, efficient policy admin system with Straight-Through integration with various front-end platforms
• Identify options for possible solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability
• Prepare functional specification and system documentation as well as supporting users on change control and system updates
• Coach, supervise and train team members to deliver high performance 
• Streamline system processes for system simplification
• Monitor and deliver IT projects to ensure the successful achievement of the schedule, targeted results and desired business benefits within budget
• Manage project risks and escalate project issues to supervisors /Functional Heads
• Manage projects and assignments as assigned

• Bachelor’s Degree with First or Upper Second Class Honours in Computer Science or IT related disciplines
• Minimum 10 years' experience of delivering enterprise software at scale with at least 2 years in supervisory role
• Hands-on experience in Polisy/400, SMART/400 and Microservices/ETL/Messaging technologies integrating with Front-End System 
• Concrete technical and domain knowledge on NonLife Insurance business 
• Knowledge in SSIS, PlanetPress workflow letter engine and Tableau is preferable
• Experience with third-party libraries and integration layer is an advantage
• Experience in business requirement collection and system analysis
• Concrete knowledge on insurance business, systems and processes 
• Insurance business process background and knowledge is an advantage
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, problem solving and presentation skills
• Willing to learn and self-motivated
• Good command of written and spoken Chinese and English