Division Head - Enterprise Platforms Division

[What the role is]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore – banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

[What you will be working on]

You will lead the Enterprise Platforms Division within the Information Technology Department. You will lead a dynamic team of 10-15 officers who design, manage and maintain a portfolio of applications systems for MAS’ key business operations. You will also lead your team in spearheading a broad ranging technology transformation programme, and work with business counterparts to develop products for the organization.

In this role, the officer is expected to undertake the following:

• To provide leadership to the team and lead towards required organizational outcomes; including the areas of:

  • Product and project delivery

  • Solution analysis and design (tech business analysis, functional and non-functional design)

  • Software engineering and testing.  Experience with running Software Engineering  teams and/or offsite development centers is a plus

  • Application maintenance, operations and support

  • Budgeting and planning for technology

  • Establishing and managing vendors, partners and resourcing arrangements

  • Applications Governance, Risk Management, Controls and Compliance

• To manage stakeholder relationships across business, other applications teams, technology infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, and others.

• To effect the following:

  • To work in whitespace to conceptualize and crystallize projects and solutions, and marshal support to see through their execution

  • To run application operations and maintenance with rigor. Experience operating in a regulated environment is plus.

  • To conceptualize and drive technology transformations, across business operations and technology.  Experience with contempory technologies (such as containers) and technology practices (such as DevSec Ops) is required;

  • To conceptualize and drive application transformations. Experience with business and application portfolio planning and design is a plus.

  • The delivery of end user support services and operations

• Experience with enterprise-grade applications systems, data and data analytics systems, and public-or-consumer facing systems is a plus.

• Experience with agile methods is a must. Experience with design thinking, customer journey mapping and design is a plus.

• Experience with the design, management and operations of user-facing infrastructure, user-facing support and end-user computing is a plus.

[What we are looking for]

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.