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

Ensure risks are identified and mitigated as part of the agile development lifecycle

Contribute 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

Excellent command of English and Chinese (written and spoken)

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