Team Head

About BDO

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Job Summary

• Develop project plan, scope, estimates; Manage the implementation of IT Projects ensuring on-time and within budget delivery while meeting business requirements and ensuring compliance with solution architecture.
• Align across other technical leads in the IT organization.

Key Responsibilities:

•  Assists in prioritization of IT projects as part of the business planning/ demand planning cycle for the Units
• Align with the project manager on the overall technical outcomes for the modules and delivery timelines
• Leads in the kick-off process with vendor ensuring all necessary resources are present.
• Monitors and execute assigned projects as per BDO SDLC and Governance process
• Accountable to deliver the technical deliverables of the projects within scope, schedule and budget commitments
• Accountable to manage the vendors involved in the project, ensuring all technical deliverables are met
• Identifies and logs project issues; Oversees the resolution process; and escalates issues when necessary
• Lead, when necessary, re-scopes the projects and updates project plans accordingly
• Leads the project closure ensuring all deliverables are achieved and documented; and relevant lessons learned/ case studies are developed
• Assists in selecting and on-going management of vendors/ suppliers for supporting selected projects
• Facilitates vendor contracting, payments
• Harness project best practices and contribute to the overall BDO knowledge base
• Train new delivery managers with BDO project delivery processes
• Manage the team competency, assignment and workload
• Work with the application owners, IT Operations, architects, and platform owners to ensure that the technical deliverables are aligned with company standard processes and SDLC
• Proactive management of issues and risk and timely escalations to the Unit Heads
• Responsible for end-to-end technical delivery of projects and Business-as-Usual (BAU) activities.
• Strong technical leadership, hands-on involvement when needed, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, system stability, and high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with BA and SA team head, Systems Analysts, Solution Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Project Managers and other IT teams.
• Design scalable, secure and high performance solution aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead technical delivery across the full project lifecycle.
• Break down requirement into technical task and provide accurate effort estimations.
• Assign and track development ask, ensuring alignment with delivery timelines.
• Identify and manage technical risk, dependencies and issues.
• Actively dive into application code during critical timelines, production issues, or complex problem areas. Support developer by troubleshooting, optimizing and refactoring code when required. Includes timely escalation to the heads.
• Lead and perform code reviews to ensure quality, performance, security and maintainability.
• Ensure technical documentation is accurate and up to date, including design documents, interface specifications, deployment guides, and operational run-books

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree relevant to the job.
• Experienced as a full-time IT project manager, delivery or technical lead (5 years minimum), preferably gained from a bank or financial institution.
• Must be willing to work onsite and be assigned in Ortigas

BDO Unibank, Inc. provides equal opportunity to all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on job requirements and candidate qualifications, and shall not be influenced by any consideration of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity),  national or ethnic origin, or disability.