Discover the GREAT in your career.
As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia's leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.
Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose we over me. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.
If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking an experienced professional to join our IT team as Project Manager (Data Driven Business).
The Role:
- Own and be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget
- Manage project lifecycle, from requirement, design, technical construction, testing, acceptance, training, documentation and implementation, in accordance with the GE's Project Management Process and Methodology
- Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, preparation of high level project plan with project timeline and resource requirements, and staffing and organization of project team.
- Plan, coordinate and communicate project plan, timeline and activities to the project team
- Work closely with the group of key business owners and source systems SMEs, IT Risk & compliance, IT Security, QA on the agreed project objectives
- Monitor and track progress of projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution
- Manage and coordinate project deliverables, ensuring their quality and configuration management
- Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans
- Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
- Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks
- Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
- Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices
- Other responsibilities entailed
The Person:
- Possess a Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Certified Project Manager, either CITPM or PMP, with at least 10 years of experience in managing IT projects and software/application development lifecycles, Scrum Certified
- Good knowledge of development methodologies and implementation
- Possess experience in managing the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile or Waterfall software development practices
- Possess experience in managing vendor and contracts for application maintenance supports and services
- Strong delivery management experience, with proven a track record in managing and steering projects towards smooth execution and on time delivery
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with passion for making data-driven decisions
- Experience in use of project management and collaboration tools is required (E.g. Microsoft Project, Confluence, Jira Software, Kanban Boards, etc.)
- Knowledge of big data platforms and analytics tools is required e.g. Hortonworks, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Tableau, Qilk, SAS Vija etc.
- Knowledge of technology, tools and process related to data governance, master data management and data lineage is required
- Knowledge of cloud technology Eg. AWS, snowflake etc.
- Excellent in verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, effective in fostering teamwork and managing high performance project team
- A working understanding of Cloud computing, Data Science, and/or Machine Learning
- Familiar with current topics in big data / data analytics such as natural language processing, complex event processing, machine learning, computer vision, deep learning, supervised or unsupervised skills, OpenCV, tensorflow, dockers container management is desired
- High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
- Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes
Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.
Location: Head Office, Kuala Lumpur
Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia
Employment Type: Permanent
To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
About Great Eastern
Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.
We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.
We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.
Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people's lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.
