Total 13 job vacancies by The Japan Research Institute, Limited

The Role

The candidate will play an important role as Technical SME in the development team to support the digitization projects using BPM / Workflow system. The candidate is expected to be involved in all technical aspects of project delivery and/or maintenance from assessing requirements, assessing technical solutions, developing solutions, testing to system implementation. The candidate is also expected to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse, design, develop, customize, implement, and maintain the assigned systems.
• Work closely with Team Leader to gather requirements from the customer, perform technical impact analysis and estimate effort for development.
• Prepare and/or update and review technical documents.
• Manage offshore development teams to ensure technical standards and quality are met.
• Perform code review to detect any potential coding problems.
• Perform unit test and system integration test, support user acceptance test.
• Prepare release procedure and support production implementation.
• Troubleshoot issues and problems to provide workarounds.
• Perform root cause analysis and come up with preventive measures.
• All other duties and tasks as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology with min. 5 years' experience in software development using Java technologies (J2EE, Spring Framework) and front-end technologies (JavaScript/Angular/AngularJS), preferably in a bank or financial institution.
• Experience in working with offshore team is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in deploying, and maintaining, cloud-native Java applications on Microsoft Azure is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in Newgen BPM system preferred.
• Good knowledge in SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and/or Agile).
• Good presentation, communication, and coordination skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated.
• Ability to contribute individually and collaborate well in a team.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan for quality assurance activities with timelines and effort estimates and manage resources to support testing demand.
• Discuss and work with System Analysts & development teams and SMBC to understand the testing requirements to determine testing coverage and collect sample test data (if available).
• Review documentations created by QA Team Lead, Senior System Analyst and/or vendor to ensure quality.
• Track testing activities against test plans and track defects (Log Defect with assigned Severity, Retest and Close Defect) discovered to resolution. Report statistics and statuses to PM.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the team and ensure process and compliance is met. Provide direction, support and set performance goals to the team.
• Timely escalate issues to manager.
• Support on hiring matters such as interviews where required.
• Onboard new joiners to their roles.
• Coach and guide team members on their jobs.
• Manage and motivate team performance, guided by performance management framework.
• Engage team members to identify and support them on their career aspirations and development plans.

Job Requirements

• Diploma/ bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• Min. 10 years' experiencing working as Quality Assurance Analyst/ Tester in a bank, FI or a consultancy company.
• Familiar with defect management tools.
• Ability to understand technical jargons and some understanding of technology environment setup.
• Possess strong planning skill and is positive and proactive in his/her approach.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

Job Responsibilities

Security Assessment, Planning and Control

• Ensure the security compliance and proficiency of cloud services and virtualized environment,
• Conduct both annual and ad hoc security cloud outsourcing review stipulated by Head Office, country regulators and/or local outsourcing committee as and when required.
• Conduct monthly security access review for Human Capital Management Department.
• Develop, implement, and review security policies and user matrix to safeguard employee’s data.
• Respond to compliance team on security incidents and implement corrective actions,
• Provide training and awareness programs for Human Capital Management Department.
• Evaluate and recommend new security tools and technologies.
• Ensure latest patches are applied to all Human Capital Management’s system in a timely manner.
• Develop and test disaster recovery and business continuity plan to ensure infrastructure resilience.

Project Management

• Be part of the HRIS project team as a designated project assignee, e.g., Project Manager, Security SME, Data SME etc., to help ensure project is planned and executed smoothly from initiation to closure.
• Represent Human Capital Management Department as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all Infra security and data integration matters for automation projects. Coordinate and implement solutions in accordance with security rules with Japan Head Office Security team, and ensure compliance with regulators PDPA requirements, if any.
• Act as liaison between end users, Human Capital Management team and IT team, wherever applicable, to understand business requirements for HR related Cloud (SaaS) solutions.
• Prepare and present regular project updates and ensure solid documentation or business requirements and changes.
• Prepare and put forward budget plans for identified project initiatives, influencing, and negotiating with Japan Head Office to obtain support from them, if applicable.
• Be an agent of change for digitalization initiatives by advocating and helping users to understanding the purpose of change.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent with around 5-7 years of experience in providing IT services to financial institutions.
• Experience with regional project implementation.
• Proficiency in Japanese is an advantage as this role needs to communicate with stakeholders (Security Dept) in Japan Head Office.
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud platform and security, and/or, adopt a highly motivated mindset to quickly learn and catch up with those technologies in the ever-changing technology landscape.
• Good techno-functional skills with SAP SuccessFactors would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with MAS cloud outsourcing would be an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management is a critical skillset.
• Possess strong and assertive verbal, written communication skills and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities and be motivated to continuous learning about work related matters.
• Good bi-directional and collaborative attitude to work as a professional in a team.
• Willing to take an ad-hoc project as necessary, e.g., leading minor projects or change request whenever bandwidth permits.

The Role

You will perform production application support task for Supply Chain finance platform in APAC region.

Job Responsibilities

• Be the Subject Matter Expert on the Supply Chain Finance platform and eco-system facing the bank users.
• Responsible in E2E management of production incidents / service request linked to the Supply Chain Finance platform (e.g. Opening of tickets / weekly meetings on progress of outstanding issues / coordination with internal team on the execution of data extraction).
• Perform detailed support and troubleshooting for production incidents linked to Supply Chain Finance platform including coordination with internal and external stakeholders for impact analysis / workaround / root cause analysis.
• Work with the System Owner / Incident Manager to build on the Operational Knowledge Base / incident process management focusing on Supply Chain Finance ecosystem. PIC is responsible in creating / maintaining such documents including working with the project team to gain knowledge on any new enhancements / releases on the Supply Chain Finance eco-system.
• Responsible for validation of the platform after any scheduled / unscheduled patching of the Supply Chain Finance ecosystem.
• Responsible for management of the platform / coordination with internal stakeholders during any Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Responsible for execution on any system config changes linked to Supply Chain Finance platform.
• Highlight and escalates risk issues to relevant parties in a timely manner.
• Participate in system restoration for Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned.

Job Requirements

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in computer science or information Technology, Finance or Economics.
• Min. 9 years of work experience in the application or system support function, preferably in the finance industry.
• Possess functional knowledge in the Supplier Finance / Accounts Receivables Purchase / Dynamic Discounting product including middle office / back-office operations such as funding / payments.
• Possess functional knowledge on Finshare Platform (by Premium Technology)
• Experience in Enterprise Application support environment with interaction to multiple function (developer, infrastructure and service desk) and business users.
• Good understanding and competency in scripting (such as DOS, Shell Scripting).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate sound judgment in reviewing problems and making recommendations / decisions.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of accountability and ownership of results.
• Possess self-motivated and driven work ethnic to ensure high quality work in a timely manner.

The Role

You will perform production application support task for payments system (overseas and domestic remittance & cheque payment, local interbank fund transfer-GIRO, FAST, MEPS+) for APAC region.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for production system integrity and production system readiness of systems under Payment System team for APAC region
• Provide L2 support and troubleshooting for production incidents and critical system interface through Payment System
• Support the Incident Manager in ensuring preventive and detective measures of applications are identified and implemented with provision of root cause analysis.
• Support the IT Planner in meeting project objectives and perform production transition for new system launch and system change request.
• Propose improvements for systems based on identified process gaps.
• Standardize processes through developing implementation, integration, and documentation in accordance to set standards.
• Identify and propose suitable processes for automation and implementation.
• Lead and coordinate projects (project support and change request). Provide analytical support and execute requirement analysis to support system enhancement, fixes, and emergency application changes deployment.
• Highlight and escalates risk issues to relevant parties in a timely manner.
• Participate in system restoration for Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Coordinate regular meetings for issues resolution with developers/vendors.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned.

Job Requirements

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Min. 4 years of work experience in the Application or System Support function, preferably in a bank or financial institution.
• Possess hands-on experiences in supporting Payment systems.
• Experience in Enterprise Application support environment with interaction to multiple function (developer, infrastructure and service desk) and business users.
• Has functional knowledge of Payment systems such as GIRO, FAST, CTS, MEPS+, Overseas & Domestic Remittance, Internet Banking, customer eAdvices.
• Has technical knowledge on Application hosted in both Windows and LINUX, able to perform database query (SQL Server, Oracle) and handling application services under Windows and LINUX services.
• Possess good understanding and competency in scripting (such as DOS, Shell Scripting)
• Possess self-motivated and driven work ethnic to ensure high quality work in a timely manner.
• Possess collaborative team player working style with demonstration of presentable interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of accountability and ownership of results.
• Demonstrate sound judgment in reviewing problems and making recommendations / decisions.

The Role

The End User Support Lead will be responsible for leading the team to plan and implement JRIS internal system projects and perform BAU activities. He/she will work closely with stakeholders mainly from Japan Head Office, end users, system development teams, back-office teams and vendors to establish effective and efficient collaboration.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop digitalization solutions for internal systems to enhance operational efficiency.
• Improve the office automation (OA) environment to create more productive workspaces.
• Establish governance frameworks to effectively manage IT risks and ensure alignment of activities with overall business objectives.
• Evaluate and review internal system processes and procedures to ensure the adherence to the corporate security process.
• Ensure that internal systems are properly maintained.
• Act as the point of liaison to Head Office for all matters related to OA and internal systems.
• Lead, guide and manage team members for project planning, execution and BAU support.
• Review and develop strategies for resource planning and utilization.
• Oversee the development of learning roadmaps for teams and functions.
• Establish performance indicators to benchmark effectiveness of learning and development program against best practices.
• Implement succession planning initiatives for key positions.
• Advise stakeholders toward reaching compromises and agreeing on expectations.
• Build high performance values-driven culture among the team in support of the organization's agenda.
• Lead and motivate team towards development and delivery of strategic priorities for Planning department.
• Provide daily supervision to team members, ensuring that they are motivated and equipped with skills and resources to manage their tasks respectively.
• Oversee hiring, training and coaching of team members.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or equivalent with around 5 years’ experience in providing IT services to financial institutions.
• In -depth knowledge on MSO365, Group Policy, AD Trusts, AD Sites and Services, DNS, DHCP, and DFS.
• In -depth Knowledge on Microsoft Licensing, SCCM, PC/laptop hardware and software delivery.
• Knowledge of IT service business for bank or FI.
• Comprehensive knowledge of technologies supporting asset management processes.
• Experience to handle regional projects which involve stakeholders in Japan.
• Experience supporting IT End User Service in a large organization.
• Proven experience in solution, architecture, design for desktop OS engineering, virtualization
• Experience in internal control or audit area with a deep understanding of the IT business process and systems.
• Capability to lead and drive the IT BAU related tasks with good time and stakeholder management skills and experience.
• Proactively socialize with stakeholders and maintain good relationship to steer the tasks.
• Possess strong and assertive verbal, written communication skills and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast -paced environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Good bi-directional and collaborative attitude to work as a professional in a team.
• Microsoft certification – Intune, MS 365 mobility and security, Managing Modern Desktops, Modern Desktop Administrator, MS Azure certification, MCSA/MCSE.
• VMware certification - Security certifications and CCNA certification are desired for the role.
• ITIL v3 Foundations Certification.
• CPA, CIA, CFE or other related certification for corporate governance.
• Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) or equivalent experiences.

Job Responsibilities

• Study, analyse and understand business requirements in context to business intelligence.
• Design and map data models to shift raw data into meaningful insights.
• Utilize Power BI to build interactive and visually appealing dashboards and reports.
• Ensure data is cleansed, mapped, transformed and otherwise optimised for storage and use according to business and technical requirements.
• Automate tasks and deploy production standard code (with unit testing, continuous integration, versioning etc.)
• Build data pipelines to collectively bring together data.
• Design and implement written code.
• Test data from source to the presentation layer.
• Support and troubleshoot data pipelines.
• Other responsibilities include extracting data, troubleshooting and maintaining the reporting platform.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Manage Information Science, Banking and Finance or equivalent.
• Min. 5 years of experience in Data Analytics, Realtime data integration and Business Intelligence
• Experience in building and optimising ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and datasets.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Experience in Azure data integration tools e.g., Azure Synapse, Azure Data factory,
• Experience in Power BI report delivery.
• Knowledge in traditional ETL.
• Knowledge in financial sector technologies, products and services will be an advantage.
• Able to multi-task in a challenging technical environment to deliver high quality solutions.
• A meticulous team player who has proactive and positive attitude
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

Job Responsibilities

• Installation, Implementation, Evaluation, Configuration, Administration, Operations, Monitoring, and Management of Oracle Databases (12c / 19c) running on Linux environment.
• Provide technical solutions for database related issues.
• Monitor and optimize database performance, ensuring high levels of system availability and reliability.
• Data Management and Operational Support for both Oracle.
• Implement and manage high availability solutions including Oracle RAC and Data Guard
• Troubleshooting real-time performance and tuning issues in Oracle Database
• Manage and perform database backup restore.
• Upgrade of New Software Releases, Patches and System.
• All aspects of database tuning from software configuration, memory usage, data access, SQL and physical storage.
• Administer and maintain MS SQL (2016 and above) environments.
• Support Audits with relevant correct details.
• Participate in Disaster recovery exercises.
• Respond to calls such as incidents and requests in a timely manner.
• Maintain proper documentation according to the company policies and practices.
• Perform change and release management according to bank policies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problem of database issues with emphasis on root cause analysis.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology with min. 7 years’ work experience in Oracle patching for Standalone and RAC environments.
• Experience in RAC and Grid Infrastructure (Clusterware, ASM, Disk Groups, etc.)
• Experience in Always ON and Windows clusters
• Experience in migrating and upgrading of database.
• Experience in managing database security policies and procedure documents.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability and willing to work after office hours and on weekends when needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordination and preparation of all project artefacts through collecting, analysing, summarizing information and ensuring artefacts are delivered in accordance to the project delivery process and standards
• Assist in preparations of reports and dashboards (forecast reports, budget status, and other management related reports) at group level
• Monitoring progress of projects and highlight to Group Head of potential issues
• Coordinating and ensuring quality controls for the deliverables are met
• Track and review project financials for completeness and accuracy prior to submission, and assist project managers in procurement activities, including liaising with vendors
• Tracking expenses and predicting future costs
• Preparing and providing documentation to key stakeholders and internal teams
• Prepare meeting agenda, presentation materials and meeting minutes plus supporting documentation for management meetings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 5 years working experience in Project Management Office, banking environment and/or project management knowledge
• Meticulous, analytical and result oriented
• Good communication and inter-personal skills
• Well-versed with MS Power-point and MS Excel
• Familiarity with project portfolio management tool
• understand Project SDLC process
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
• Innovative and adaptable
• Willing to take on new challenges in a fast-paced environment
• A team player as well as able to work independently

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and implement end-to-end projects related to IT Infrastructure (including Cloud) according to project governance.
• Work with internal business and other stakeholders to understand and analyse business requirements, translate business IT requirements to technical requirements.
• Work out full-scaled and precise proposal with technical solution team, coordinate and communicate resource and define clear roles with all project resources.
• Work onsite in a bank and manage vendors to ensure project delivery within schedule & budget and expected quality.
• Manage the communication and arrangement internally and externally.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Min. 8 years of experiences as Project Manager in a bank in IT Infrastructure.
• Experience in Cloud related project implementation.
• Experience of Vendor management.
• Knowledge of IT security, Risk Management and Security Control.
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Possess good initiative and proactive in approach.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE 2) is a plus.
• Experience in Agile Project Management methodology is an advantage.
• Certification in ITIL and Cloud related is a plus.
• Knowledge of IT regulation in APAC countries.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in overseeing offshore vendor in functional testing for banking application
• Analyse and review requirements
• Work closely with Business Analysts and Developers on understanding requirements
• Define test coverage and create test cases with test data
• Review test case and test evidence from vendor
• Execute manual test
• Run automation test and update automation test script when required
• Participate in performance test when required
• Ensure defects are logged with proper closure in Defect Management System
• Perform other tasks as and when assigned

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with min. 3 years of testing experience in banking application
• Experience in working with offshore vendor is preferable
• Experience in Automation Test or Performance Test is preferable
• Familiar in JIRA Defect Management System
• Strong analytical skill
• Good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

Job Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation and dependencies and drive project execution from initiation to closure
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability, ensuring strong cross functional teamwork and alignment to project goals and objectives
• Effectively communicate project progress, status and key decisions to stakeholders, including senior management, and provide regular updates on project metrics, risk and dependencies
• Own and be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget
• Manage project lifecycle, from requirement, design, technical construction, testing, acceptance, training, documentation and implementation, in accordance with the Project Management Process and Methodology
• Work closely with Project Lead/Owner or Sponsor to drive strategic or major initiatives as part of the organization’s roadmap and strategy
• Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, preparation of high-level project plan with project timeline and resource requirements/staffing and organization of project team.
• Manage relationships across all departments, partners including external parties (vendor and/or outsource partners), defining requirements, agreeing terms, and ensuring delivery in accordance to agreed timeline
• Monitor and track progress of projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution
• Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans.
• Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
• Develop, prepare, and deliver Management Information and reports regularly to support decision making
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices
• Main KPIs - Delivery of projects with agreed cost, scope, schedule, and outcome, and they are baselined and traceable

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent with min. 7 years of experience in IT Project Management in the financial industry
• Experience in managing the entire software development practices, various development methodologies and implementation
• Experience in managing deployment of IT infrastructure, such as systems & networks and cybersecurity solutions
• Experiences in major IT infrastructure & cybersecurity system updates, upgrades, OS hardening and migrations
• Constantly keep abreast of latest technology changes to maintain deployment and operational efficiency
• In-depth knowledge on Project Management/Business Analysis
• Possess strong leadership, capable of managing stakeholders and maintaining relationships in large scale projects
• Strong team management skills, influencing skills and collaborative team player
• Possess strong and assertive verbal, written communication and presentation skills
• Strong delivery management experience, with proven track records in managing and steering projects towards smooth execution and on time delivery

Job Responsibilities

• Lead project as a Subject Matter Expert, design, plan and deploy the right functional technical solution accordance with the specification and service levels of business and/or system requirements include multi-region routing across regional DC’s Cisco SDWAN controller and Internet Gateway disaster recovery.
• Design, implement and migration of solutions involving, but not limited to, SDWAN, WAN, LAN, WLAN, SASE, Security and Virtual (e.g., SDN, NFV) technologies.
• QoS Architect to ensure application level of quality of service with strong knowledge of ITIL framework.
• Support major incidents or changes when there is escalation from operation team, working with the related stakeholders and takes corrective/preventive actions.
• Work with respective countries team members on the review of network architecture and design, troubleshooting, as well as to work on network and security infrastructure domain.
• Provide network architecture reviews, assessments and recommend remediation/enhancement to improve operational efficiency and compliant to existing IT policies and governance.
• Prepare and present technical documentations. Ensure that the technical settings comply with company policy and regulatory requirements and work with stakeholders to align infrastructure direction.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related qualifications
• Min. 10 years of working experience in network design, implementation and managing large network security platform.
• Min. 3 years of working experience as Technical Lead related to SASE, Cisco SDWAN solution design and implementation in large scale projects.
• Industrial professional certification such as CCIE, CCNP is preferred.
• In-depth technical experience and proficiency in deploying network system(s) implementation for large enterprise, data center routing switching environments and network micro-segmentation.
• Hands-on experience in implementation and setup of high-availability, multi-layer datacenter networks.
• Must have working knowledge and implementation experience of Cisco SDWAN and SASE solution.
• Must have working knowledge and implementation experience of Cisco Router and Switches (ASR, ISR, Nexus, Catalyst)
• In-depth hands-on experience of advance IP routing and switching technologies, particularly BGP, EIGRP, SDWAN, OSPF, PBR, QOS, ECMP, VRRP, VPC and VXLAN
• Proficient with Cisco Systems, F5, Checkpoint, Fortinet or equivalent
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting to engineering and C-level executives.
• Prior working experience as an IT professional in banking or financial institution is an advantage.