AVP, Application Development

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers coantrol over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives. 

 

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.  

 

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability. 

 

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time. Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan’s leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

 

Purpose:

The Senior Engineer performs analysis, rectification, development and technical governance for web and mobile applications and will be accountable for the maintenance, quality of code, and compliance to standards within the platform. Accountabilities include but not limited to:

·         Analysis, Designing, Development & implementation of

o   Microservices (Java, Spring, Hibernate)

o   Automated unit testing of the deliverable

In accordance with agreed digital/platform strategy, standards and governance for a business unit, project, program, platform or feature team

·         Defining technical specifications of solutions in accordance with the agreed digital/platform strategy incorporating service fundamentals, security, and system performance

·         Driving continuous improvement through technical and process innovation to optimize the way we deliver to our customers, promoting ways to leverage business benefit at every opportunity

 

Responsibilities:

Nature of Work

·         Analysis, Design and Develop the impact of any change for services resulted from external or internal requirements.

·         Responsible, Accountable and collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver the components roadmap.

·         Technical development of existing programs, analyzing and identifying areas for modification when required, taking into consideration of building security, performance, monitoring and non-functional requirements within solution

·         Technical (Unit Testing), Integration & Functional testing

·         Confirm that any changes to the Platform are compliant with Singlife architecture standards, or deviations are agreed with the relevant governance authorities

·         Propose innovative solutions or alternative approaches

·         Identify and implementing Service improvements and applying software upgrades

·         Proactive improvements to operational processes within the platform to meet customer expectations and drive efficiencies

·         Accountable for Cloud related

Problem Solving

·         Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process and other guidelines applying technical knowledge and expertise

·         Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise

·         Escalate problems according to guidelines

·         Provide technical solutions for deficiencies in process, application configuration and operational procedures

Resource Complexity

·         Accountable for prioritizing own use of time to deliver the workload expected of the role while working within policy and guidelines and applying technical knowledge

·         Understand and proactively involve in programs related to Tech Upgrade, Platform Automation and Cloud Migration program.

·         Ensure that delivery is sufficiently well designed to mitigate the risks posed by the changes

·         Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the above functional activities.

 

Experience

·         Minimum 5 years of working experience with Rest API services

·         Minimum 5 years of strong hands on working experience with Java frameworks such as (J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Microservices)

·         Minimum 3 years of experience in SQL or relevant query language

·         Minimum 3 years of working experience with microservices framework and containers

·         Working experience with AWS Cloud

·         Full stack experience is a plus, preferably in React/React Native or Angular

·         Working experience with any test automation tools is a plus

·         Ability to pick up knowledge of the application

·         Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills

·         Proactive to propose innovative solutions or alternative approaches to difficult issues

 

Education Academic:

·         Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Degree in Computer Science, IT or related discipline (preferred)