System Analyst (OpenText Appworks), Shared Platform

System Analyst (OpenText Appworks), Shared Platform

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.

The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations.

You will work with the Enterprise team and be responsible for understanding their business requirements and translating them to functional specifications and technical design specifications. Key objectives include ensuring good quality and smooth delivery of system enhancements that are fully in compliance with mandated framework and guidelines.

Other responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with enterprise and solution/application architects to deliver application solutions that comply with guiding principles and enterprise standards.
• Drive proof of concepts to progress technical ideas to working solutions.
• Plan project efforts to upgrade, enhance and maintain systems at supported release levels.
• Analyse and develop high quality functional specifications from the business requirements.
• Work with different stakeholders from business, operations, development and testing teams for timely delivery of deliverables.
• Be responsible for the overall system analysis activities; ensures high quality deliverables and meeting project schedules.
• Address and resolve functional issues.
• Ensure functional knowledge is propagated downward to the technical teams so that quality testing is conducted and followed through.
• Support during the testing phase of delivery to ensure the functional requirement is delivered.
• Engage system vendors as needed to ensure business requirements/functionalities are clear for delivery throughout the end-to-end project implementation phases.

Minimum requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• At least 6 years of experience in business process and/or technology implementations.
• Proficient in OpenText Appworks development skills from present or past projects.
• Proficient in MS SQL Server database query skills, and Java.
• Proficient in OpenText Directory Service (OTDS) will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with Banking processes, process modelling and UI design will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with AML (Anti Money Laundering) processes will be an added advantage.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle process.
• Experience of gathering functional and non-functional requirements and incorporating them in design.
• Demonstrated experience of working from offshore, where the larger technical and business teams are located onshore.

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications.