About the Job The individual will provide leadership to the IT Infrastructure Projects Delivery capability of Great Eastern. The individual will be part of the core team that will drive the IT Infrastructure strategy and execution of projects in traditional, cloud, and hybrid environments. The individual will be assigned a portfolio of Infrastructure projects, ensuring successful and timely delivery of the projects under the Infrastructure function. The individual will require to enforce good project management and compliance to Great Eastern IT project governance and processes. Provides leadership to Infra Project Department which includes oversee Infra Project Managers. In-charge for Infrastructure projects, manage and control progress for ongoing projects. Deliver projects within scope, qualities, timelines and allocated resources. Manages internal business and other stakeholders to understand and analyse business requirements; and translate business IT requirements to technical requirements. Work out full-scaled and precise proposal with technical solution team and presentation to management for approval. Work with various governance functions and stakeholders within Great Eastern organization in the areas of project risks management and procurements. Coordinates and communicates resource; and define clear roles with all project resources. Handles and manages major projects as Project Manager role. Manage people in term of their strengths, weaknesses, expectations, and workload balance. This includes identifying training and development needs, and providing performance management to the team. Ensure all projects follows and comply with PMO processes. Continuously strive to improve and innovate the current Provide accurate and comprehensive status of projects. Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks. Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company. Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices. We are looking for people who Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / IT or Diploma with Professional Certifications. More than 10 years in leadership experience; successfully managing and deployment of infrastructure projects. Experience and knowledgeable in traditional, cloud architectures and technologies for network, servers, database, storage and middleware. Planning and organisational skills for undertaking team leadership and BAU workload management. Self-driven with a positive attitude and strong leadership skills to champion for culture change management initiatives within IT and with interfacing Business stakeholders. Strong and factual communication skills and able to manage situations/conflicts and influence others, ability to communicate Project Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies clearly. Good analytical skills and a creative approach to problem solving. Team player who can lead in brainstorm session with peers to problem solve and make decisions. Good understanding of apply risk management techniques and its application Experience working with multiple internal and external teams (business and IT) Understanding of various Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management methodologies. Must have Project Management Certifications (PMP or PRINCE); Industrial certification (ITIL) is an advantage. Ability to understand business processes and financial functions are a plus. Good-to-have the knowledge of Technology Security or Risk Certifications; Network fundamentals: CCNA or CCNP; Windows, VMware VSI/VDI, AD, SCCM, Storage, Backup, HCI, O365, IP-phone, etc. Experience of Technology Infrastructure vendors, and associated product/service offering and industry technology trends as well as IT security, Risk Management and Security Control will be an advantage. High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork. Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes. How you succeed Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions. Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability. Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change. Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively. Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively. Who we are 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&aposs 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. Location: HQ, Kuala Lumpur Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia Employment Type: Permanent Show more Show less