Manager (Information Technology)

Job description:

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

IT Infrastructure

• Lead a team of 24-by-7 team members to ensure technology operations are efficient and effective from cost and stakeholder satisfaction angles, and the IT environment is reliable.
• Develop and implement a systematic and rigorous approach to ensure data and system control, security and integrity.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are in accordance with evolving regulations, legal requirements and industry standards.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are complied with, and audit findings comprehensively addressed.
• Ensure the IT infrastructure has strong protection, detection, and response capabilities for cybersecurity threats.
• Maintain a business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure timely and effective restoration of data and IT services in the event of a disaster

Cybersecurity

• Drive organization wide IT awareness initiatives through provisioning of CBT for security, identify possible gap of understanding in staff and facilitate re-training/awareness session.
• Facilitate Information Security Management System (ISMS) audit planning, coordination, management response, rationalisation and collation and tracking of audit action items with internal and external parties.
• Drive simulated phishing campaigns to improve security posture of organisation.
• Ensure compliance with ISO27001 and Cybersecurity Code of Practice under the Cybersecurity Act.

Governance

• Enforce IT policy, standards and procedures/guidelines in accordance to internal policies, and applicable regulations (such as PDPA, Cyber Security Act, EMA Regulations, and Computer Misuse Act).
• Perform periodic reviews of the IT system access.
• Facilitate IT audit planning, coordination, management response, and tracking of audit action items with internal and external parties.
• Perform IT compliance check by reviewing control effectiveness.
• Perform IT audit on established standards.

Financial Management

• Manage the annual IT budgeting exercise with Finance.
• Track OPEX and Capex spend against budgets.
• Manage purchase requisitions and process invoices for IT purchases.
• Prepare waiver of competition, variation order, evaluation and award papers where necessary.
• Track contracts - utilization and renewals.
• Track assets, licenses, maintenance expiry dates, end of life/support dates.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
• At least 10 years' experience in an IT related field.
• Candidates from oil and gas industry, complex utilities and infrastructure corporations will be considered favorably.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and perform at a management capacity, demonstrating initiative, creativity, and consensus-building skills. Serve as a member and leader of various corporate committees and task force groups.
• Proven track record of successful large project implementations, broad IT infrastructure and application architecture knowledge. Have strong infrastructure domain knowledge around cloud computing.
• Self-starter, independent, and hands-on. Good interpersonal, facilitation skills, customer focused/service oriented, and has effectively affected change.
• Ability to work as part of larger teams and leading cross-function team initiatives

Candidates with more senior experience will be considered for the Senior Manager role.