Assistant General Manager, IT Applications (Treasury & Trade Finance)

Responsibilities:

• Engage key stakeholders to evaluate and assess proposed projects based on value, risk, Effort, cost and strategic alignment.
• Drive technology agenda / provide product layout plan / road-map for new technology product development / defining IT strategy, in order to assist long term business growth, cost reduction, improvement or efficiencies.
• Management of project development with technology partners including internal and different external vendors within the time and budget.
• Responsible to liaise with all other IT teams acquiring the necessary requirement with different business partners including outside of Treasury such as Risk, Compliance etc. 
• Management of software development projects in accordance with corporate standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Ensure project deliverables which meet system stability and reliability to customer, business users and operation with agreed SLA and compliance requirement.
• Ensure process of technology alignment with business priorities and transparent prioritization.
• Responsible for all technology related regulatory enquiries and mandatory initiatives for Technology under various regulatory regimes such as HKMA or MAS by working with internal/external IT Audit/Compliance, Business, Legal and other partners.
• Provide technical and new technology insights for management to define IT strategy and direct teams to follow the established strategies and in line with the IT Architecture Solution.
• Plan, select, acquire, allocate, review and control resources to produce the best price performance application system, achieve least service impact and as well as to develop contingency plan to minimize business risks.
• Develop, coach and mobilize resources and re-prioritize activities across sub-teams to deal with the fluctuating demand from rapid business changes.

Requirements:  

• Degree holder in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistic or any quantitative disciple or equivalent. 
• At least 10 years’ experience on a large-scale trading application or back-office development experience with hand-on experience preferred.
• Solid experience on supporting treasury systems, experience on Murex is an advantage.
• Experience in Agile, TDD and CI (Jenkins, Sonar etc)
• Knowledge of Docker and CD (Cloud solution is a plus)
• Experience to manage vendor in software
• Good knowledge of Treasury products and different asset classes
• In-depth knowledge of any of the software languages in C/C++, Java, Oracle is a must
• In-depth knowledge of concurrent programming experience, test framework and CI/CD is a must
• Managing major and sizable projects experience with development team or multiple vendors with test framework and CI/CD is a must
• Preferable with experience to manage multiple sub-teams serving different business domain area
• In-depth knowledge on structured and unstructured data technologies is a plus
• Knowledge of Trade Finance is a plus
• Exposure to multiple computer platforms, including mainframe and open platform etc., is an advantage
• Certified PMP is preferable

For more details about career opportunities with the Bank, please visit our website http://www.cncbinternational.com/careers/en/index.jsp. Please apply with full resume stating current and expected salaries.

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