Manager, Application Management

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The candidate will work closely with key stakeholders and development team on core systems. As core system is a critical internal system for supporting different core business functions, high capability to work individually and collaborate with distributed teams is required. In addition, the candidate will assist the supervisor to manage each project’s scope and timeline in order to ensure the team's deliverables are up to quality standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the supervisor to monitor and maintain system stability and provide solution to address the stability problem
• Align with DevOps and Agile delivery approach, tooling and practices adoption
• Follow the delivery control guideline required
• Ensure compliance and regulatory requirements are met
• Refactoring and continuous improvements of the code and processes
• Ensuring risks are identified and mitigated as part of the agile development lifecycle
• Contributing to the ongoing support of the apps and ecosystem
• Capable to work individually and collaborate with distributed teams

Job Requirement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
• Obtain 12+ years of IT development experience
• Knowledge in insurance, banking and finance systems are an advantage
• Solid experience in handling projects of various size
• Strong in design, development and testing methodologies
• Strong on problem solving skills

The following skills are required:

• Any of programming languages : VB.Net, .Net, 4gl, SQL, Java, JavaScript,
• Any of Relational Database related technologies, e.g. Informix, Oracle, MySql
• Agile principles and processes methods with tools and process, e.g. Jira, Confluence, etc

The following skills will be an asset:

• Backend development, e.g. Java EE, NodeJS on Typescript, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, etc
• Enterprise service bus (ESB) technology e.g. Spring Integration.
• CI/CD tooling including Git, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.
• Public cloud services, e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.
• Containerization/orchestration, e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• DevSecOps scanning tools, e.g. Fortify, Nexus, etc.
• Any of NoSQL Database related technologies, e.g. MongoDB, CosmoDB

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.