Job Purpose

This is a Lead Application Administrator and Developer role required for Identity and Access Management (IAM) Systems support and involve in IAM projects as part of Great Eastern’s Digital Transformation initiative. This role is required to enhance and support IAM web applications and manage the IAM platform to support new applications integration as well as to support BAU activities.

The Job

• Implement new projects, support enhancements for existing applications and to onboard new applications, while continuing to support production ticket/ incidents and BAU activities independently.
• Hands-on contribution in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Perform/ support patching of common middleware platforms.
• Adhere to internal IT standards, processes and guidelines.
• Able to understand and implement functional specifications with customization as required.
• Manage and maintain software configuration item (e.g. documentation & source codes) and ensure all trace-abilities are made available at all-time from development till production.
• Independent and takes accountability to understand existing applications and all integrations at the technical level.
• Develop applications that are of high standards, modular, scalable, reusable and maintainable, following industry best practices and conventions.
• Perform code reviews of co-developers and possess ability to identify issues/ gaps against the design specifications and to recommend best practices to improve overall code quality where applicable.
• Build and translate business requirements to system/ technical design, specifications and test cases, user guide etc.
• Effectively communicate, both written and verbally, and able to present and share ideas to internal stakeholders.
• Liaise with vendors and partners on technical design and implementation activities.
• Understand the organization’s architectural and technological strategies and to develop applications that are aligned to these directions.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and take 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 share best risk management practices
  
  

Our Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of development experience for Software Engineer with minimum of 4 experience in IAM platform.
• Must have good knowledge and hand-on experience and implementing authentication and authorisation protocols, framework like OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML2.0 etc
• Must have hand-on experience with LDAP (IBM Directory server, SunONE Directory, OpenLDAP, etc.) and 2FA/ MFA system/ services.
• Must have hands-on experience in managing the middleware platform like application servers, directory servers and database servers and services.
• Must have good knowledge of web and application vulnerability, native apps security, authentication mechanism, session management, token-based authentication protocol, application-level encryption, PKI, application signing, cross-site scripting, and OWASP.
• Must have good knowledge and hand-on experience with IAM platform and middleware applications server (WebSphere, Tomcat etc) and DB services (DB2, Oracle) setup, installation and configuration, patching, troubleshooting etc.
• Experience in database design and query optimisation, using database such as DB2, Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL.
• Must have good knowledge and hand-on experience working experience on Unix (REHL) server to support IAM services and patching activities.
• Good knowledge and hand-on experience in development of applications with Java/ J2EE framework including JSP, Studs, Java Scripts, Spring Framework, JQuery, NodeJS, Angular, Vue JS, REST, SOAP, web services.
• Experience in developing cloud native applications, utilising PaaS or CaaS platform, and on technologies like Kubernetes, VMware TKGI and VMware TAS.
• Knowledge in micro service concepts like service registry, circuit breaker, inter-service process communication.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment and building CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in developing, deploying and managing enterprise level web application or customer portal related application.
• Experience in developing event driven microservices based on Kafka or similar framework.
• Experience in TDD approach in software development.
• Experience in using source control like BitBucket, and branching strategy.
• Experience in using team collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Good to have domain knowledge in the Insurance or Financial industry.
• Must have good knowledge on cloud native applications that are reliable, highly-available, high performance and low latency, using micro service architecture and Domain Driven Design.
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a team of PM, BA, architects and engineers.
• High level of integrity, take accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Take initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes
  
  

About Great Eastern

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

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.

Work Locations

SG-GE Centre

Job

Singapore