IT Director

About AIA

AIA is a leading insurance company that offers a wide range of products and services to its customers.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced IT Director - Insurance Solutions to lead our team in delivering complex IT projects and ensuring good quality of deliverables to fulfill business needs.

About the Role

• Lead complex IT projects and ensure good quality of deliverables to fulfill business needs;
• Assist the Chief Technology Officer to formulate IT strategies, monitor and provide regular updates to management on project progress and status of service requests;
• Keep abreast of new technologies and provide advice on appropriate IT solutions to internal users;
• Develop, enhance and review system workflow, functional specifications, system specifications, technical specifications and system manual;
• Gather business user requirements and prepare functional specifications;
• Ensure all projects and service requests are implemented with proper test results, sign-off and technical documentation in line with IT Standard/ Guidelines and with proper management control;
• Provide advice to internal users on subjects related to the use of Information Technology;
• Manage resources and provide coaching to team members on various matters, including but not limited to self-discipline, work commitment, team spirit and customer-oriented;
• Prepare project documentation, budget, cost & benefits analysis, system feasibility study and IT product/solution evaluation;

Key Competencies

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability of leading IT projects to cope with various system initiatives and support the Company's growth and development;
• Customer-oriented and able to deliver quality IT solutions;
• Excellent relationship building, able to manage various business partners and vendors;
• Excellent organizational and time management skills;
• Good presentation and communication skills with the ability to work with all levels;
• Able to work independently and under pressure to meet tight timeline;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to integrate and make recommendations on various complex IT / business solutions;
• Vendor management skills;
• Good understanding of IT System Development Life Cycle and project management methodologies by using waterfall and/or agile approach. Experience on DesOps / CI / CD is a plus
• Good command of spoken and written English and Chinese;

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent;
• Minimum 15 years' relevant experience in insurance industry a must with at least 5 years' project management experience at managerial level;
• Experience in implementing core insurance applications will be an added advantage;
• Good knowledge in AS/400 RPG, COBOL, CL programming and Policy/400;
• Experience in leading Project Office an advantage;
• Experience in relational databases and application development;
• Hands-on work experience in project management, business analysis and system development;
• Familiar with various IT platforms, including multi-tiers system architecture, Agile development approach and IT System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000 per annum

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