Senior System Analyst

at  FWD Insurance

About FWD Group
FWD Group is a pan-Asian life insurance business with more than 13 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world. The company was established in 2013 and is focused on changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD’s customer-led and digitally enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience.
For more information, please visit
www.fwd.com
FWD Technology and Innovation Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., known as FWD TIM, was established in late 2019. Strategically located in Kuala Lumpur, FWD TIM serves as a pivotal shared service location within FWD Group, providing services to multiple markets across the Group. FWD TIM houses a diverse and talented workforce focused on essential business and technology services such as information security, cloud operations, IT solutions delivery, digital and data, actuarial, finance, investments, and customer service, among many others. FWD TIM is dedicated to drive and deliver operational excellence and efficiency, foster innovation and ensure regulatory compliance across all business functions as well as maintain a competitive edge in the market.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for software development and maintenance of mission critical frontend trading systems for multiple BUs
• Manage and lead up to medium scale project team, arrange project team resources assigned according to projects implementation plan.
• Review current technology and drive ways to leverage and improve productivity
• Perform systems administration and daily IT operation tasks
• Select the right technology solutions for building the regional end-to-end sales platform.
• Provide integration solution with other systems.
• Translate user requirements to functional & technical specs, lead the project team members to perform the development according to confirmed technical specs.
• Carry out feasibility study of requirements and functional specs with users and other functional stakeholders.
• Perform the full SDLC cycle task, i.e. system design, development, testing, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement.

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 8 years of application development experience
• Strong insurance knowledge, problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong leadership experience. Proven track records in managing regional-based Front-end systems, preferably experiences in implementing IT systems/projects to multiple BUs.

KNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Experience with modern programming language, Node.js, ReactJS, Java
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline from frontend build perspective.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern container technology, such as docker, K8s
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as OAuth, JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Good command of spoken and written English

• Implements computer system requirements by defining and analyzing system problems, designing and testing standards and solutions.
• Develop solution by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions.
• Interact with users for collecting requirements and providing technical solutions
• Provide guidance for junior developers to complete tasks
• Get used to the Agile development process and reach the goal of each sprint
• Implement the requirements by defining and analyzing system problems, designing and testing standards and solutions.