Position : IT Applications Senior Officer
Section : Information Technology
Company : Al Koot Insurance & Reinsurance Company
Location : Doha, Qatar
Experience : 8– 12 Years relevant experience
No of resources : 1
Purpose : The IT Applications Senior Officer will be responsible for managing all the projects and applications under his portfolio thru the SDLC life cycle, current and future projects, and managing a team of Applications Analyst and developers being responsible of the delivery of all the projects and create the IT solutions to support all business units and business users, including supporting the production systems and maintenance. The role will act as a single-point-of-contact for a given application(s) and includes: technology-business liaison responsibilities, limited project/initiative management & governance, and strategic roadmap planning.
Job Summary :
- Manage all existing applications and software’s portfolio, and the upcoming applications in the pipe line
- Over all supervising the day to day tasks activities of the resources based on time and cost
- Provide delivery dates and estimations of the required task and assignments from all the applications team regarding all projects
- Manage and coordinate business solutions projects thru whole journey of SDLC from requirement gathering to systems implementation and support
- Ensure that all projects’ needs (from the business point of view) are covered, identifying and addressing all gaps of the relevant applications teams
- Conduct application needs assessments and plan the delivery of suitable services to all business departments according to contractual obligations and agreed level of service
- Coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and implementation of different organizational information systems and software applications.
- Maintain, support, and upgrade existing business systems and applications
- Design, develop, and deploy mission-critical information and software systems and Set the solution architecture to fit into the Enterprise Architecture of the organization
- Lead large scale projects that affect multiple functions within the organization
- Interface with different business areas to ensure projects have proper impact, coordinate teams to rollout projects organization wide.
- Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in information Systems and apply this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans
- Lead the process for identifying and prioritizing projects within the projects portfolio
- Manage and coordinate with all stakeholders for system integration test & user acceptance test (SIT,UAT) in coordination with business owner
- Perform homologation tests with the Operations & Maintenance are for delivering the systems for production, securing a proper handover to operations
- Manage different IT vendors to ensure that services meet business needs.
Skills
Knowledge & Experience :
- Bachelor Degree in IT or IT related field
- 8 minimum years’ experience in developing software applications, preferably, out of which at least 4 years with insurance applications.
- Minimum of 5 years deep and relevant product development experience is required.
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in a Managerial role of a technical team is require
- Experience with database management
- Recruiting IT resources and vendors service providers
Skills & Competencies :
- Excellent communication skills
- Multi tasking
- Ability to problem solve high pressure issues
- Excellent Project management skills, PMP is a plus
- Strong leadership, management, and customer service skills.
- Great analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- People management skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Experience of working with multiple projects/tasks and the ability to prioritize on the fly.
- Experience of supporting multiple teams within a business.
- Good documenting skills (Windows Office/Visio)