Senior Application Development Manager (Channels) (Public Enterprise)

• Lead a team developers located in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen undertaking the estimation, design, construction, maintenance, and support of computer based solutions, primarily large scale customer-facing web systems.
• Lead the developer team in resolving incidents in mission-critical production systems that serve customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements and are delivered according to agreed standards and methods including architecture, security, quality, and coding.
• Ensure team members strictly adhere to aspects of the solution development cycle including all instituted standards, documentation and processes.
• Provide accurate estimates for software development activities and reports progress to project or line management.
• Identify and allocates appropriate resources to task assignments in support of project plans.
• Assist in translation of business requirements into a functional design in accordance with architectural standards.
• Ensure tasks are delivered according to predetermined estimates.
• Conduct reviews of deliverables to sustain and improve their quality and conformance to requirements.
• Prepare feasibility, functional and design specification documents.
• Participate in walkthroughs and reviews of the design and construction phases of solution development.
• Provide technical consultancy or advice to other project/development teams or directly engage in software development tasks.

• A University degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 15 years IT experience with a minimum of 8 years in managing a team of developers.
• The ability to apply a measured and reasoned approach under pressure and support the team undertaking development by resolving issues in a timely fashion.
• The ability to communicate clearly with a broad range of stakeholders and co-ordinate delivery within a team environment.
• Proven skills in managing a large and diverse team of software engineers, including team members located outside of Hong Kong
• Analytical, clear thinker with problem solving and troubleshooting skills.Good leadership skills and ability to assist team members in overcoming obstacles and organisational boundaries.
• Relevant experience developing and supporting large-scale customer-facing web solutions using web and database technologies, including ASP.net, SQL Server, Windows Server, C#, C++ as well as Ajax/JavaScript/XML and responsive UI frameworks such as Angular, React JS, Node.js, Vue.js.
• Experience performing effective capacity management and monitoring of large-scale customer-facing web systems is required
• Experience providing systems support under an ITIL-based framework is required
• Transaction-enabled systems experience is a plus as is experience with technologies such as NGINX and high performance database technologies such as MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
• Experience with DevOps adoption and cloud technologies is also a plus

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