Software Engineer

ROLE PURPOSE

Deliver reliable IT solutions and efficient support services for information accessibility, business operations efficiency and increased organisation productivity that contribute to the Bank’s IT strategy and roadmap.

 

JOB DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

·         Determines operational feasibility by evaluating, analyse the problem definition, understand the requirements from users, problem statements or change requests, and provide/propose solution development with a good technical solution.

·         Assist Solution Architect and Solution Delivery Manager in the  implementation of IT  solutions  which covers the  various  phases of the system development life cycle, from the business requirements gathering, design, develop, test until  deployment  while  ensuring adherence to BNM’s IT policies, guidelines and procedures.

·         Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code and create technical specifications, document the deployment guide and train the in-house Solution Support and Operations.

·         Improve the maintenance of applications from preparation of impact analysis and recommendations, to successful implementation of the approved changes.

·         Analyse data to effectively coordinate the installation of new systems or the modification of existing systems.

·         Apply best practices and standard operating procedures to achieve quality and secure coding standards.

·         Continuously keeping abreast with technology development to enable optimisation of the Bank’s IT infrastructure and application for the improvement of IT solutions delivery to business users.

·         Build and maintain relationship with external experts and peers in other organisations in order to benchmark and research appropriate technology and processes to enhance IT services in the Bank.

 

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE :

·         Bachelor degree or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology , Information Systems, Software Engineering or relevant professional qualification

·         Experience: At least 2 years working experience in software development, agile development and application support

·         Knowledge: System development life cycle, system analysis and design, database management and technically strong in all or some of these software: Visio, (E)SQL, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, JAVA, .NET, C/C++, HTML5, Unix, Unix Shell Script Programming, BPM, ESB, Python, JavaScript, MySQL/ Teradata / any SQL databases

 

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

·         Emerging Technology                • IT System Support and Maintenance

·         IT Systems and Technology       • IT Project Management

·         Technical Architecture               • Procedure, Systems and Methods

·         System Development

 

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

·         Acts for the Greater Good

·         Integrated Thinking

·         Environmental Awareness

·         Holistic Collaboration

·         Engage and Influence Stakeholders

·         Organisational Understanding

·         Leveraging on Strategic Relationships

·         Empowerment with Accountability

·         Build Team Capability

·         Drive Performance Excellence

·         Executive Maturity

·         Self Confidence

 

 

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

·         Ability to understand the application business area and perform application support, software testing, software design & development, application integration, and project management in system development

·         Good understanding of high availability design and concept (eg failover, clustering), application security testing, windows desktop environment and server technology (Unix, Linux and Windows environment), authentication and access control principle

 

CHALLENGES

·         Continuously develop the technical skills with the technology advancements

·         Ability to provide reliable and effective application support in meeting the service level agreement

·         Ability to work after office or during weekends, and travel to recovery site (whenever required) for project activities and for system support