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About the Role

This role is a Delivery Manager role who is responsible to work on designing solutions with solution architect and Project Managers to ensure successful delivery of the project. The role focuses on driving business initiatives for cloud applications while aligning technology solutions with business objectives.
To be Azure Cloud Application Delivery Manager:
1. Managing offshore delivery teams
2. Leading the solution design with the delivery teams
3. Driving business initiatives to completion within time, budget per SLA

1. Serve as Azure subject matter expert to deliver and manage cloud-based applications for Group Investment:

• Analyze and evaluate business requirements.
• Manage and guide technical project resources.
• Lead the project team to propose and design total solutions.
• Manage project activities and project artifacts.
• Manage all architecture and security related reviews and assessment processes to meet policy/standard requirement.

2. Manage the acquisition, installation, testing and deployment activities in accordance to Group Office policies and standards.

3. Manage internal and external service providers to meet agreed service levels.

4. Conduct periodic reporting to the project workstreams and stakeholders.

5. Perform other responsibilities and duties assigned by supervisor as required.

Communication Requirements:

Internal:

• Works with all users from LBU and Group Investment, Group Security, Group Application, TSS China, ITM and LBU technical teams) on application project matters
• Liaises with necessary AIA colleagues to ensure delivery of the functional work as required.

External:

• Work with external suppliers of system deploy in the projects.
• Raise request to vendor and follow up on progress.
• Liaises with vendor on project matters.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or other relevant discipline.
• 10 years related experience in a technical lead capacity, preferably in Financial Industries with proven track record.
• 5 years working experience in cloud-based DataMart and reporting solutions.
• Experience using ITSM tools will be added advantage.

Certifications/licenses 

• PRINCE2, PMP, Agile or equivalent.
• Fundamental certifications in Azure, Data or AI Certifications are preferred.
• Additional certifications in solution architect and other cloud certification are a big plus.

Technical skills

• Hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure portal
• Knowledge in Java, .Net, JSON, Visual Basic is a plus.
• Well-versed in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Prior experience Informatica, Snowflake, Alteryx is added advantage.

Special skills

• In-depth business and application knowledge on IT and operations, preferably from Investment/Asset Management industry.
• Ability to formulate business requirement into technical functional solution.
• Good understanding of latest technological trend and cloud technologies.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Resourceful, independent and result oriented.
• Proactive and can-do attitude.

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