Description
Starting date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months eventually renewable
Languages: French and English
Mission:
To ensure continuity and guarantee the quality of application(s) in his/her area of responsibility (and to manage their maintenance), the Application Manager's missions are the following:
- Ensure the correct operation of application(s), their maintainability and their upgradeability
- Suggest optimizations and efficiency gains
- Apply the obsolescence management plan guidelines
- Adapt the action plan for service continuity (stress testing campaign, technical recommendations, optimizations)
- Make sure changes are realised in due time and within the defined budget
- Ensures IT referential and documentation are complete, current, and appropriately stored
- Works closely with relevant stake holders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s)
Responsibilities:
- Manage and secure changes/upgrades affecting and required to the application
- Respond to business enhancement change requests and incidents, ensuring required development and testing phases (coding, unit tests, UAT, NRT) with respect for the consistency of the application
- Coordinate the successful implementations of the changes with the software provider, with the various IT contributors, according to clients requirements and expectations, and IT infrastructure relevant evolutions
- Manage budget and resource allocation
- Provide mentoring, coaching and direction setting to resources
- Ensure objectives of the Annual Management Plan relevant to the application(s) he/she is responsible for are met
- Present oral and written reports defining plans (roadmap), problems and resolutions to appropriate levels of management
- Update documentation with each change
- Comply with and implement applicable norms and standards: engineering rules, security standards
Personal Skills:
- Awareness of IT development standards, methods and tools
- Understand IS fundamentals
- Knowledge of application solutions
- Awareness of quality and security standards
- Awareness of functional and technical architecture rules
- Good knowledge of release management cycle
- Good knowledge of a project management methodology eg CMMI.
- Good understanding of the banking sector, particularly Fund Administration, Fund Accounting,Financial and Regulatory reporting
- Good knowledge of Financial and Regulatory reporting
- Knowledge of CoReporter or equivalent (Reporting application), Multifonds FA
- Organizational skills (being proactive), Communication skills, Analytical skills.
- Customer-focused, Solution-oriented, Result-driven, Teamwork, Taking initiatives (make proposals)
- Adaptability, Active Listening, Decision Making, Self-driven, Vision
- Excellent written and oral French and English skills are essential