Head of Development, IT Department, Head Office

Head of Development is responsible for orienting, building and executing the strategy of developing information technology application solutions to meet the requirements of business and development strategy of the Bank. You will be in charge of critical platforms, solutions and engineering teams within the bank from an IT and engineering point of view.  As a Head of Development, you are expected to drive engineering excellence, modern engineering practices and help create high performing teams to deliver high quality solutions for customers.  We are seeking a visionary leader with proven track record of driving excellence in software development.ResponsibilitiesRequirement Analysis: Build application development plan and orientation. Supervise, assign, review to ensure the quality of application operation execution in order to achieve set goals in development strategy of IT application solutions which serve the whole bank operation.System Design: Orient, analyze, and assess whole-bank new technology application trend in order to update appropriate roadmap and standardCollaboration: Coordinate with functional units to define the requirements and business development strategy which are the foundation of building development strategy of IT application solutions which serve the whole bank operationCoding: Orient, follow, and support implementation process of investment projects, technology solutions development for the whole bankScalability Planning: Oversea the planning, execution and delivery of developments projects, ensuring alignment with Bank goals and objective.Maintenance: Establish and maintain project timelines, resource plans and budgets.Database Management: Adhere to Bank policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with management guideline and Bank’s policy.Risk Management: Recognize risk and self-assess risk of the department in operation, make plan to deal with risk and cooperate with relevant units to build methods of measurement, assessment and risk mitigationCode Review: Ensure department's activities comply with policies, regulations, processes, internal guideline...and commit to service quality (SLAs)Testing: Oversee human resources planning and execution (headcount & costs) of their function/ sub- function.Debugging: Attract, onboard and retain the right talents for a high-performing team.Stakeholder Communication: Establish and communicate sub-function/ function and individual KRAs/ KPIs, goals, action plan, expectations and results to reporting lineDocumentation: Manage sub-function/ function performance & provide feedback regularly (following the annual performance management cycle)Capacity Planning: Define team’s capability requirements and enable team member’s professional and personal development through capability assessment, training, coaching & feedback, mentoring, etc.Training and Mentoring: Motivate and recognize team members’ contributions towards the team’s shared goalsVersion Control: Responsible for developing talents within the function/ sub-functionTechnical Support: Act as a role model and promote corporate culture at function/ sub-function levelTraining and Support: Understand & communicate relevant HR offerings to team members.Code Standards: Establish application solution standards to orient and monitor sustainable, flexible, efficient technology solutions.Data Migration: Participate in building policies, regulations, processes, guideline on application solution development.Data Collection: Perform other duties assigned by IT Controller.Project Management: Lead subordinates to participate in building Bank's corporate culture.RequirementsDomain Expertise: University degree or higher, majoring in finance/ economics/ banking/ business administration/ computer science.Experience: At least 12 years of experience in Software Engineering, with 7+ years leading SWE teams building customer-facing software applicationsSecurity: At least 7 years of experience in Leadership or management. Experience in managing a team of more than 50 peopleFrameworks and Libraries: Strong technical background with expertise in C#, VB6, ASP.net MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor Pages, Windows Form, Devexperess is a plus.APIs and Web Services: Experience in Banking Industry and Bank product is also a plus.Testing and Quality Assurance: You will need to come from a technical background ideally with experience implementing large scale cloud or distributed systems using microservices, web and mobile applications. You should be comfortable being involved in architecture and solution design discussions as well as working with developers and dealing with senior business stakeholders.Additional Skills: You must be pragmatic and able to deal with ambiguity and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.Adaptability: Automation and speed to market are also critical and you should drive initiatives within engineering and testing practices to help achieve this.Languages: Foreign language: English: fluent communicationAlgorithmic Knowledge: Other requirements: Have a solid knowledge of application systems serving the operation of the whole bankNegotiation Skills: Priority is given to candidates with experience in Oracle flexcube or flexcube system.EducationDegreeBachelor in Information TechnologyCertificationBenefitsOutstanding career development opportunitiesHigh performance & dynamic working environmentGreat employment benefitsNegotiateInsurance CoverageAllowance & additional salary paymentSalary Review Annually18 days full paid leave per yearTraining & DevelopmentAnnually Health Checkup