Technical Manager

You will be involved extensively and be responsible for the end-to-end software development lifecycle and support for all work transitioned from Group (which could be projects, quarterly change requests, L3 production fixes). This includes anchoring key engagements with various stakeholders, analysis and design to development, implementation, release management, testing and support for the domain area of Digital Banking.

With a primary role in delivery management, you will be responsible for the project technical delivery and quality assurance of the team’s delivery in conformance to the Bank-defined software delivery methodology and tools. You will partner closely with the group domain team to plan and manage transitioned deliverables.

SKILLS REQUIRED

The ideal candidate 

should have

 extensive experience in implementing and operating large-scale and complex mission-critical solutions:

Understand the business requirements

Develop, review and update project plans, resources, budgets and timeframes,

Drive the data, design and solution discussion with vendor, technology team and user      groups.

Directly lead and manage a team of technical teams comprising developers, technical      analysts with focus on delivering banking systems and solutions

Responsible for the successful execution and technical delivery of projects that meet      scope, timeline and budget.

Stakeholder and relationship management, including escalation, expectation, conflict,      scope changes

Partner with solution and enterprise architects to deliver technical innovations in support of emerging business needs and to progress these ideas from      concepts to working solutions

Plan project efforts to upgrade, enhance and maintain systems at supported release levels

Identify and raise risks and issues affecting the project, including financial or operational and proactively managing them, with

timely escalation to relevant parties where necessary

Drive the testing strategy and manage the testing cycles, ensuring all critical and high defects are resolved within the testing cycle.

Manage relationships across all business lines and with external parties, ensuring timely delivery of assigned activities

Organize and chair governance meetings, including preparation of meeting materials and minutes

Ensure work deliverables are following bank policies and regulatory requirements.

Directs the offshore squad in making day-to-day decisions and conflict resolution.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Support for project activities

Prepare Sprint plan align with dependency applications

Get/Raise/follow up impediments related to project delivery in Daily

Stand Up, Scrum of Scrum meetings

Follow up on the development with squad teams as per the sprint plan

Arrange sprint demo and get approval to move the developed user stories to Testing Phase

To burn the story points as per the sprint plan and achieve the delivery as planned

Update project status for PWG, PWC Meetings

Support for testing phase activities

Review test plan

To support clearing issues raised during testing