A fulfilling position as Head of Technology for a reputable organization to drive digital transformation strategies and projects.
Mandatory Skill(s)
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer or Software Engineering or Business;
- At least 15 years of experience in innovative or economically driven environment, working on digital technology projects with 10 years in management capacity;
- Strong background in emerging and modern architecture (e.g. microservices / API design, cloud-native development, integration patterns such as REST, messaging, event-driven);
- Exposure to AI/ML or AI-enabled development practices is highly preferred;
- Experience working with enterprise platforms (CRM systems such as Salesforce, Dynamics);
- Knowledge in cyber security – cyber operations, security orchestration, governance and advisory fields;
- Strong technical foundation with previous hands-on experience as a technology architect, able to make strategic decisions grounded in deep architectural understanding;
- Strong appreciation of latest technologies, strategies and innovative approaches to help transform businesses;
- Proven ability to drive team engagements in a tough and time pressed environment;
- Experience in leading and motivating large scale Engineering and Architecture teams;
- Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and ability to influence key decisions, mediate conflicts, and build consensus both internally and externally.
Desirable Skill(s)
- Experience working in insurance environments with understanding of policy lifecycle, underwriting workflows, claims processing;
- Experience with leading offshore teams is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Responsible to align business initiatives and programmes, identify opportunities to harmonise IT applications;
- Build strategic partnership with senior management to understand their issues and help promote / influence directions;
- Responsible to provide the technological vision and road-maps as well as to develop tactical plans to align with organisation strategies in meeting the future needs;
- Oversees the new technical aspects and technologies development, assess their value add and applicability for the purpose of organisation growth and adoption;
- Work closely with stakeholders and partners to drive change and innovations;
- Involve in continuous improvement, initiate new ideas / concepts by leveraging the latest technologies; driving the efficiency across the whole ecosystem;
- Provide leadership and technical advice to business users, technical members and vendors to adoption of strategic Digital Transformation framework and standards;
- Chair meetings to obtain updates from the various project stakeholders on scope, timeline and budgets;
- Forecast and manage budgets, monitor expenditures/costs/overheads against delivered and realised benefits;
- Overall quality assurance and governance of the integrity of the programme and projects;
- Provide coaching/mentoring to members within each program team to hone their capabilities and retain a motivated and high-performing team;
- Manage overall program risks and associated mitigation plan;
- Provide regular progress report of all programs to senior management.
If you are interested in this role, click on the “Apply to this job” button below or you could also write in with your CV to Cecilia Chong at cecilia@sciente.com quoting the job title.
