The posting
Position Purpose
- Lead the functional and technical support for the suite of APAC International cash management applications – Money Transfer System (MTS), Client Account Management System (CAMS), Suspend Management Service (SMS) and Cash Management Store (CMS).
- Role requires strong technical knowledge for the combination of legacy and modern technologies - Mainframe JCL, DB2/SPUFI, Control M, Oracle/SQL, Linux, TIBCO, Dynatrace, Grafana & Helios.
- Coordinate with Global MTS, Global Monitoring and Business Analyst teams to guarantee that all changes, fixes and enhancements are correctly aligned with APAC international payment flow requirements.
- Drive the L2 application support team located in Singapore and provide support for the APAC region users by ensuring high availability of applications.
- Performs technical, functional sanity checks and tests, prior implementation of the fixes and system changes to the production.
- Act as an escalation point for critical technical issues and drive application incidents ensuring minimal service disruptions and client impact.
- Perform post incident review and ensure root cause analysis (RCA) is performed to prevent recurrence.
- Ensure that backup procedures are in place and that the application can be recovered quickly in the event of failure. Support Disaster Recovery Test and Business Continuity activities.
- Provide regular updates to management regarding application performance, project statuses, and risks.
- Champion knowledge transfer, documentation and automation initiatives to uplift the Singapore team support capability.
- Analyze and challenge existing support processes to achieve continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Application Support & Incident Management
- Own L2/L3 production support for CM applications; drive incident resolution, root cause analysis and timely work arounds.
- Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance, including weekend/holiday on call duties.
- Lead problem management activities, ensuring permanent fixes are prioritized and delivered.
Global Collaboration
- Work with the Global MTS team to assess that any application change is fully assessed for impact on APAC payment flows.
- Coordinate with Global MTS for fixes required by APAC specific MTS processes.
- Align with the Global Monitoring team to implement and maintain business level monitoring (Dynatrace, custom alerts).
Change & Release Management
- Support change management processes and application releases; sign off on technical readiness for APAC deployments.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery testing, Business Continuity activities and post security patch health checks.
Technical Architecture & Optimization
- Champion the rare technology stack across the APAC Payments & Cash management ecosystem.
- Identify the repeated work and automate to improve team’s operational capabilities
Stakeholder & BA Alignment
- Partner with Business Analysts & Development team to ensure production problem artefacts are addressed timely.
- Provide clear status updates to business users, senior management and external vendors/regulators.
- Partner with Operations teams in APAC to develop an operational contingency for international payment applications in APAC.
Knowledge Management & Continuous Improvement
- Document SOPs, run books and knowledge base articles; drive cross training of team members.
- Analyze existing support processes, propose and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Technical
- Mainframe JCLs, SPUFI DB2
- Oracle PL/SQL, SQL tuning, performance optimization
- Linux/UNIX – scripting (Shell, Python) and system administration
- TIBCO (EMS, Business Works) – middleware integration
- Dynatrace, Grafana, Helios – application performance monitoring
- Control M Distribution
- JAVA/J2EE, WebSphere/Tomcat/JBoss
- IBM MQ & Mainframe interfaces
- ITSM tool: ServiceNow
- Collaboration platforms: SharePoint, Confluence
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills
Functional
- Deep understanding of international payments ecosystem - clearing systems and cash management processes
- Working grasp of double posting accounting treatment and end of day/month batch runs
- Solid grasp of ITIL concepts (incident, problem, change, release management)
- Experience in supporting international payments in the APAC region
Behavioural
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to convey technical details to business users
- Results and client oriented with a proactive “can do” attitude
- Technical lead and Team player with strong analytical mindset; capable of working independently while escalating appropriately
- Mentoring attitude – able to up skill junior and offshore team members
Specific Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related disciplines.
- Good command of spoken and written English.
Experience
- ≥ 8 years of Application support with at least 3 years of experience in leading team of cash management / payment applications in APAC
- Hands on expertise with the technology stack combination listed
- Proven record of coordinating globally distributed teams and delivering APAC specific solutions
- Experience authoring and executing contingency / DR plans



