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If you want to shape a brighter future at AIA Digital+, please read on.
About the Role
To assist the (Senior) Application Manager in driving the delivery, enhancement, and operational excellence of digital mobile platforms in alignment with ISS and business strategies.
He/She is responsible for managing the mobile application portfolio, technology roadmap, and application lifecycle management for customer and business-facing mobile solutions. Acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for mobile technologies and application architecture, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards while delivering an optimal digital customer experience.
Roles and Responsibilities:
IT Application Management
Lead and manage the delivery of mobile application initiatives, enhancements, and production support activities.
Own the mobile application roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and digital transformation strategies.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, vendors, architects, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver solutions within agreed timelines and budgets.
Govern application lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with SDLC, security, architecture, and quality standards.
Monitor application performance, availability, and service levels, ensuring timely resolution of production incidents and operational issues.
Oversee mobile application releases, deployment planning, and post-implementation support activities.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance application stability, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
Resource & Team Management
Manage and optimize internal resources and vendor teams to support project delivery and operational objectives.
Provide leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to team members.
Ensure effective workload planning and resource utilization across multiple initiatives.
Monitor vendor performance, delivery quality, and adherence to contractual and service commitments.
Foster collaboration among cross-functional teams including Business, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Operations.
Support talent development, knowledge sharing, and succession planning within the team.
Solution Design & Architecture
Accountable for the technical design and architecture of mobile application solutions.
Ensure business requirements are translated into scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-performing mobile solutions.
Review and approve technical solution designs proposed by internal teams and vendors.
Ensure mobile platforms are aligned with enterprise architecture, integration, and security standards.
Lead technical discussions and provide consultancy on mobile technologies, API integrations, authentication mechanisms, and digital capabilities.
Act as the technical lead for large-scale digital initiatives and mobile transformation programs.
Development / Application Delivery & Release Management
Govern end-to-end delivery of mobile application enhancements and releases.
Oversee SIT, UAT, security testing, performance testing, and production deployment readiness.
Coordinate release planning and implementation activities across multiple stakeholders.
Ensure risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests are properly assessed and managed.
Support production deployments and key release activities during critical implementation.
Production Support & Continuous Improvement
Serve as the escalation point for major production incidents affecting mobile applications.
Drive root cause analysis and implementation of preventive measures.
Monitor application's health, crash analytics, performance metrics, and customer feedback.
Identify and implement opportunities to improve application reliability, performance, and user experience.
Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, audit, and operational requirements.
Job Requirements:
Degree in IT from an accredited institution. Master's degree is preferred.
8-10 years of experience in IT application development environment, with 6-8 years in supervisory experience on the supported IT domain (Application solutioning on design and development)
Sound experience in execution of IT projects with high level of expertise in system application and technology implementation delivery.
Strong communication skills with ability to communicate with middle management team, internal & external stakeholders
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Domain proficiency in insurance business and its operations including distribution channels modus operandi is essential
Able to work independently and highly self-motivated
Able to work with peers and other stakeholders, a team player
Technical skills required
Mobile Application Platforms (iOS & Android)
Mobile Release Management & App Store Deployment
API & Microservices Integration
RESTful APIs, JSON, OAuth, OpenID Connect
Mobile Security & Authentication
Azure DevOps / Jira / Confluence
Application Performance Monitoring & Analytics
Firebase / App Center / Crash Reporting Tools
CI/CD Implementation
Agile / Scrum Delivery Methodology
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