BELIEVE IN BETTER
Do you believe in leading the way to a better, healthier, more sustainable future?

At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.
It's finding new ways to not only better people's lives, but to better the communities and environments we live in. As the largest listed company on the HKSE, we’ve been proudly making a difference for people and communities across Asia for over a century. And we build on this every day with our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030.

And to get there, we need leaders with the courage, clarity and humanity to inspire, guide and support their teams to thrive every day - in the work they do and the life they live. Our leaders always have and will play a vital part in our journey to help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives, build healthier societies and cultivate healthier environments that better everyone.

If you sound like that leader, read on.

The opportunity:

• As Technology Lead - Integration, you will lead our development of Azure capability, build new capability to enable business strategy and create plans to moderise our legacy applications.
• Over time your technical leadership will:
• Improve our technical practices
• Simplify our technology through adoption of Azure capability
• Foster an engineering culture across the team
• As a project technical lead, this role will review and approve solution designs at Architecture Governance, create development estimates and lead technical implementation. The contribution will ensure a high quality engineering outcome is delivered and deployments are seamless.
• In a project and BAU capacity, this you will be work with internal and external technical teams to set best practice standards, ensure there is clarity on expectations and mentor/assist other team members.

Key responsibilities include:

• Software delivery and technical development
• Sign and development estimation
• Technical design for assigned projects, small work requests and BAU activities across the technology portfolio.
• Ensure that technical design aligns with the organizational system architecture through regular liaison with the Principal and Solution Architects
• Communicate the final and agreed technical design with all relevant groups and stakeholders
• Delivery of proof of concept initiatives
• Integrated technical deployment planning
• Troubleshooting of cross applications problems that are identified during delivery
• Where required design, code, unit test, build and deploy complex software components

Leading and Mentoring Development Team

• Work collaboratively with the AIA business SME’s, Project Managers, Development Teams (local and offshore) and vendors to deliver required software solution across the technology portfolio.
• Support developers and resources new to AIA, in gaining an understanding of the AIA systems infrastructure and constraints
• Assist developers with interpretation of the technical design
• Contribute (where necessary) direction of developer activities as part of retaining ownership / management of the technical solution
• Contribute to the review and redesign of processes or procedures, on an ongoing basis, to deliver improved team productivity or efficiency
• Contribute to maintaining development environments and software delivery tools
• Manage the process of innovative change effectively
• Pursue personal development of skills and knowledge for the effective performance of the role
• As well as any other tasks or responsibilities assigned from time to time by management

Application Architecture

• Take full responsibility for defining a technical solution based on detailed Business Requirements and aligned to the solution architecture across the technology portfolio.
• Ensure all technical solutions are designed in alignment with AIA technical boundaries through ongoing consultation with Principal and Solution Architects. Ensure these designs are approved at Architecture Governance.
• Create designs that address relevant areas of complexity and provide a fully considered and detailed solution design across the technology portfolio.

Technical Business Analysis

• Along with the Technical Analyst for the Domain, and where needed, assess and understand the business requirements through liaison with the Project Manager and Business Analysts and involvement in workshops with the key business user groups/stakeholders
• Validate business demands and document high level functional requirements
• Provide input to the project estimation process to include the identification of required resource types, potential utilisation and geographical availability and allocation as well as effort and schedules for the technical components across the technology portfolio.

Creating a Functional Specification

• Create a detailed Functional Specification where relevant across the technology portfolio.
• Establish clear technological boundaries that align with the organizational solution architecture
• Ensure all necessary documentation is prepared with the inclusion of full technical data and detail
• Anticipate potential conflicts with the Technical Design and pro actively contribute to solutions
• Engage with relevant Business Unit stakeholders to communicate/negotiate technical limitations and/or boundaries
• Continually manage the expectations of the business and project stakeholders as the technical solution evolves
• Use industry and sector experience to bring progressive best practice solutions to AIA

Setting up Development Environment

• Support developers (local and offshore) with establishing a suitable development environment across the technology portfolio in close consultation with the Project Manager and Release Manager
• Champion and develop best in class CI/CD practices
• Understand and facilitate environment sharing (a unique constraint of AIA) in close consultation with the Project Manager and Technology Change Lead

Quality Assurance

• Conduct ongoing code reviews
• Ensure that the technical quality of each deliverable is acceptable
• Prepare all relevant quality documentation

Ideally, you’ll bring:

• Bachelor, Technical Degree or Tertiary qualifications in Technology or related discipline, or 8+ years’ experience in application developmentMultiple Microsoft Azure certifications
• Excellent knowledge of and experience in Azure Integration Services and at least one of the following technologies or architectures:
• Oracle Fusion
• Oracle Managed File Transfer
• Control-M BMC software
• Web Methods ESB
• Zero trust network architecture
• Experience in software design and architecture
• Delivery Methodology - Agile (Scrum) & Waterfall
• Experience in developing complex commercial solutions using relevant technologies and practices.
• Responsive design concepts, Continuous improvement knowledge

Why choose AIA?
At AIA, we believe in empowering every one of our people to find their 'better'. We do this by offering:

• Opportunities to grow within the business through internal mobility
• Competitive employee benefits that include insurances, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme and an extra day of leave each quarter to recharge
• Membership to AIA Vitality, our science-backed health and wellbeing programme that provides the guidance, tools, and rewards to get more out of life and start thriving. AIA Vitality partners include Airpoints™, Woolworths, MoleMap, endota, Les Mills, Samsung, Garmin and many more!
• A supportive and inclusive workplace
• Flexible working arrangements.

If you believe you can help guide us towards a better tomorrow, apply now!
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Our commitment to these values is unwavering and they are central to our mission. AIA NZ values diversity in the workforce. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional mental health needs, chronic health conditions and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles. If you encounter accessibility barriers to the standard recruitment process, please email nz.talentacquisition@aia.com.

Job ad expires Wednesday 5th of February, close of business.