Assistant Manager

About FWD Group

FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 30 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the stock code 1828.

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FWD Vietnam Technology Company Limited., known as FWD VTC, was set up in 2024 and is part of FWD Group. FWD VTC in Vietnam is one of FWD Group’s office locations serving multiple markets within the Group and employs team members in various functions including Group Technology and Operations, Group Digital & Data and our Centre of Excellence comprising cloud & infrastructure, information security, enterprise architecture and solution delivery.

PURPOSE.
- Facilitate the overall Technology organization to adopt cloud-first strategy & realize the overall Group Technology Strategy by where Cloud based operation underpins.
- Drive cloud transformation concepts and engineering patterns into development teams to keep systems operating effectively

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple CoE and agency DevOps environments
- Review code and consult with other engineers on new features and their implications for site performance, reliability, and security for the security of CoE and local DevOps environments
- Improve automation and fault tolerance of the deployment process
- Drive long-term improvement in CoE and agency DevOps system availability by removing single points of failure

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE
- University degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- At least 7 years’ experience in IT industry with at least 2 years supervisory/ managerial experience with regional exposure on managing IT programs/projects across different countries
- Strong insurance knowledge, problem solving and analytical skills
- Critical thinking and able to drive changes
- Strong leadership experience. Proven track records in managing regional-based Front-end systems, preferably experiences in implementing IT systems/projects to support Asian countries.
- Experience with cloud technologies
- Experience delivering multi-lingual/internationalized solutions
- Experience leading product development teams

KNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Proficient in Java Spring Boot, Node JS and React JS / React Native
- Experience in Mobile App (Android and iOS) and Web development/e-Commerce
- Experiece on NOSQL database and synchronization is a plus (MongoDB, RealmDB)
- Good knowledge in container deployment, Kubernetes system, API Gateway, Client/Server, MVC, OOP, RDBMS, automated test and Internet/Intranet environment
- Proficient in Agile development approach
- Experience on Insurance Sales Tools development (FNA, RPQ, Sales Illustration, eApplicaition) and integration with other frontend systems
- Experience on Insurance Products
- Exemplify good interpersonal communication skills at all levels of business users, IT, partners and vendors
- Good command in both written & spoken English
- Broad understanding of the technology industry, including current and emerging digital solutions
- Deep appreciation of latest and emerging technologies and practice, such as DevOps, Cloud, Microservice and Mobile development
- Expertise in building secure, scalable RESTFul web services

Experience with agile development methodologies and CI/CD