Core Life Applications Lead

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Manage the delivery, design and integration and delivery of Shared Applications, specifically in the Core Life domain
Planning and Budgeting

• Acquire new knowledge and skills to drive continuous improvement in respective areas and day-to-day operations.
• Monitor the project costs against the budget to ensure value achievement.
  

Incident Management

• Assist with the resolution of incidents to ensure successful resolution.
  

Customer Contract Management

• Assist in customer contracts development to ensure application contents are correct and relevant.
  

Solution Architecture

• Contribute to the solution architect's proposed Solution Architecture to ensure the architecture meets demand of the applications.
  

Solutions Delivery (including system development)

• Coordinate with Release Management in order to plan service introduction and execute transition of the Project Enhancement to Production.
• Manage and engage the vendors to build, integrate and deliver Shared Application solutions to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Manage a group of application specialists and consultants to perform application analysis and design to ensure quality assurance activities of all IT projects assigned.
• Review and approve relevant design documents and system integration for IT solutions involving applications from different platforms to ensure end-to-end system integration across platforms.
• Challenge and approve solution options and estimation, drive the vendor selection process and propose vendor for senior management's approval to ensure the best selection of vendors.
• Monitor daily operations to ensure application solution meet AXA’s policies, standards and quality requirement.
  

Delivery Process Management

• Provide approval on process compliance documents to ensure they meet governance and compliance standards.
• Support improvement on the Delivery Process in order to achieve delivery excellence.
  

Risk Management and Business Contingency

• Support and provide inputs in order to develop and implement a risk-mitigation action plan based on the project risk assessment.
• Support periodic tests to the risk mitigation and business contingency solutions to ensure system readiness and prevent issues during incidents/crises.
  

Systems Integration

• Lead the integration of solutions provided by vendors to ensure the successful transition within OneIT.
  

Applications Management
Own and maintain the application domain knowledge of a group of applications, drive the team to maintain awareness of technology trends to ensure the delivery of best practices and deepening specialization in their responsible application domain area.
Project Management

• Actively monitor throughout the project delivery life cycle in order to manage the scope, schedule, and cost for IT projects.
  

People Management

• Develop the team of Application Specialists to ensure knowledge retention for key platforms via proper resource planning and backup.
• Drive capability development of the Application Specialist team in order to build specialization in their responsible application domain area.
  

Vendor Management

• Facilitate discussions and help vendors understand OneIT business requirements in order to improve vendor performance.
• Review and approve solution delivery deliverables to ensure quality assurance.
• Oversee the delivery of trainings and knowledge transfer to the Production teams to ensure necessary knowledge is transferred.
• Manage vendor resources in ensuring a right mix of external vendors to support multiple IT projects running in parallel, in order to achieve utilization goals and on / offshore work ratio targets.
• Actively monitor in order to manage work transition and delivery with Delivery Centre / vendors.
• Define, monitor and track overall vendor and project performance against SLA and KPIs to ensure value achievement.
• Communicate confirmed scope and schedule change of medium to larger scale IT projects with Delivery Centre / vendors to ensure timely project updates.
• University degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• Minimum 10 years experience in IT solution delivery with at least 5 years in managerial role, preferably in insurance & financial services field.
• Experience in managing teams of delivery professionals to ensure applications are delivered with high quality, within budget, and according to project schedule.
• Ability to manage large project portfolio and previous experience in managing multiple medium to large-scale projects running in parallel.
• Solid experience of managing delivery resources from multiple teams, onshore and offshore, in-house and vendor.
• Strong solution delivery management skills and experience, and a proven track record of developing, implementing and maintaining systems.
• Strong people management, resources management and vendor management skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills. Excellent verbal and written English communication and presentation skills.
• Working experience in Asia countries, with understandings of the country characteristics, cultures and work style, is an advantage.
• Experience in various domains of Insurance solution delivery (for example, distribution systems, business intelligence, CRM, printing solution, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in managing solution delivery through outsourcing arrangement and offshore development centre.
• In-depth system development experience, preferably in AS400 RPGILE with collaboration with other technology domains in Life insurance industry.
  

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.
As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of
respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.
We always start with our customers. As one of the largest global insurers, our purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters. Protection has always been at the core of our business, helping individuals, businesses and societies to thrive. And AXA has always been a leader, an innovator, an entrepreneurial company, fostering progress in all its dimensions. Our purpose also links back to the Group's roots. From the outset, AXA has been committed to acting as a force for collective good. From solidarity-based actions with AXA Hearts In Action to work on prevention issues with the AXA Research Fund and the fight against climate change, AXA has always been attentive to its social environment and embraced its responsibility as an insurer: responsibility for taking action upstream in order to better understand risks, with one goal in mind: to ensure better protection. Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Investment Management

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