The Application Development Manager is responsible for leading a team of system analyst and developers, managing the system development, implementation and support of Cards related applications on the mainframe platform with overall accountability
• Responsible for end-to-end software development and support. This includes pre-project initiation, impact analysis, functional specifications to development, implementation, testing and support.
• Responsible for the understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to code level.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and provide consultation on solution and technology.
• Manage or lead a team of System Analyst and developers to implement solution that meet business requirements and are in alignment with organization's business objectives.
• Manage the application setup and deployment components
• Manage development issues and escalations
• Work with vendor to ensure product deliveries are timely and good quality.
• Manage budget coming from different projects.
• Hands on manager to guide team on functional and technical issues
• Ensure project documentation is done up in accordance to bank standards• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software with NodeJS, Angular, MariaDB (MySQL)
• Ensure that software packages and programs are well documented and has reasonable test coverage
• Collaborate closely with other internal technical teams in investigating, testing and deployments
• Responsible for handling Release Management, raising Change Request and scheduling for the implementation of fixes and enhancements.
• Root cause analysis, management communication and client relationship management in partnership with Infrastructure Service Support team members.
• Ensures all production changes are made in accordance with life-cycle methodology and risk guidelines
• Application Support, Deployment of Release, patches & fixes on Platform
• Analyze application performance, perform tuning and ensure high availability & stability of platform.
Technical Skills & Experience
• At least 12 years of experience in application development and maintenance with full software development life cycle experience
• Hands-on experience on cards application domain on a mainframe platform.
• Significant domain knowledge in Cards and Payments.
• Strong delivery and project management experience in implementing large scale, highly available applications for the financial services/banking sector
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery
• Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills
