Job title: Solution Architect

Salary: $4,000 - $5,000 + good benefit or negotiate

Working in : Ho Chi Minh city

Scope of work:

• Translating Business Requirements into Solution Concepts and Designs .
• Providing technical guidance throughout the complete Solution Delivery Lifecycle.
• Developing solution architectures aligned with enterprise-wide standards to ensure successful implementation of technology solutions.
• Ensuring solutions developed enable the required business functionality / capabilities, comply with Company’s standards and policies, re-use existing functionality and address operational stability requirements.
• Undertaking the definition and maintenance of technology designs, and ensure IT&T investment is aligned to strategic technology direction

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop solutions that are aligned to domain architectures, have buy in from key stakeholders, maximise the re-use/leverage of enterprise assets and actively reduce the areas of operational risk
• Apply the Company architecture processes utilising the internal methodology SDLC/PMLC templates
• Demonstrate and continue to improve knowledge of relevant business domains to make better decisions when formulating strategic solutions
• Advise and influence project sponsors and stakeholders on appropriate solution architecture
• Develop Solution Architectures and associated documents (TCP, TCD, HLSD) for a project. Architecture should respond to the functional and non-functional requirements and extend or leverage strategic assets where relevant
• Participate in concept and planning stages. Lead workshops and engage stakeholders as required

• Participate in the problem solving to deliver large scale change through process engineering, technology and people engagement
• Provide an architectural governance function for the design and build deliverables to ensure traceability of the built solution to the architectural principles and business objectives
• Work with the Architecture and Planning teams to manage the alignment of the program’s architecture to the Group’s Architecture Standards
• Escalation point is to immediate manager
• Co-ordinate inputs from ES partners including ES Security, IT Delivery Services& the other Architecture and Planning teams
• Articulate and evaluate key options independent of technology, for a given solution
• Able to lead the technical design process co-ordinating the various stakeholders from business and ES towards an agreed solution
• Influencing a project's technical and business stakeholders to adopt proposed design/architecture
• Identification and engagement of stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure the solution is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success

Undertake any other tasks assigned by your manager that you have the capability to perform safely in line with relevant internal Group policies and external regulatory requirements.

Your experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in IT and in a business consulting type role
• High level of communications skills, including the demonstrated ability to solicit opinions, accept feedback
• Experience in operating effectively as part of cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated understanding of team dynamics and a desire to improve team effectiveness
• Experience in modelling and communicating models as a means of articulating concepts in Architecture
• Significant design experience, or experience in guiding design
• Experience in working across a number of technical domains with the ability to ‘deep dive’ where required and ensure correct solutions are implemented
• Ability to deliver convincing presentations that provide significant insight and generate consensus and buy-in

Desirable:

• Ability to translate technical developer talk to business managers
• Sound level of proficiency in key capabilities – IT SDLC processes, written documentation/specification skills, understanding of good design and architecture principles

Development of conceptual and applied architectures, including assessment of new technologies and alignment to business strategies .

Your qualification:

Essential:

SME in at least one business or technology domain

Desirable:

• Technology Undergraduate Degree
• Business or Technology Master’s Degree
• Industry certification(s) in at least one technology domain
• Project Management formal Training/Certification(
• Business Analyst formal Training/Certification(s)

Your development

In this role you will gain experience in:

• Start-up (e.g. managing or contributing to a new service, product, business, system or process)
• Turn around (e.g. resolving inherited business challenges, turning around a struggling business area/team or improving customer service measures (ICSM or External Customer Surveys))
• Business growth (e.g. business development, growing an existing business, expanding into a new market, cross selling or one team referral)
• Organisational change (e.g. leading, managing or contributing to a strategic refocus, a restructure, an acquisition/merger or change management)
• Risk management (e.g. managing financial, customer and reputation risks or risk processing/reporting)

On the job development opportunities will be identified for you between you and your manager. They will work with you to create and action your development and career plan

For more information please contact our consultant:

Ms Phuong

•  02839154343 ext 113
•  phuong.nguyen@firstrecruitment-asia.com

Ms Susan

•  02839154343 ext 111
•  susan.ho@firstrecruitment-asia.com

For more the information please contact our consultant:

Ms Thu

02839154343 ext 112

  thu.mai@firstrecruitment-asia.com

Mr Duy

 02839154343 ext 114

  duy.nguyen@firstrecruitment-asia.com

We are urgently searching for our client, a  foreign Software company .

Position : HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT

Package : USD 100,000 - USD 150,000 / year

Report : CEO

Working in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

• Be responsible for providing leadership in identifying, assessing, and managing all technology activities within the organization
• Overseeing the department and guiding the day-to-day operations of the development team
• The individual will direct, coordinate, supervise, facilitate, and perform all tasks and elements to a high standard within the organization.
• The individual will be accountable for IT development via local and globally distributed 3rd party teams.
• And ensure that development goals are fully aligned with the corporate goals of the organization.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Formulate, establish, and execute a clear technical vision and lead the company’s technological development.
• The role includes recruiting, supervising, mentoring and managing all members of the development team and providing highly motivating and professional leadership in all areas of technology planning and technology resource management.
• The Head of Development will identify and integrate new technology, leveraging across business units and existing IT infrastructure.
• The individual will drive the development business strategy, and enhance communications and collaboration internally and across business units.
• Lead the full life-cycle development process from product definition/strategy, through design, development, test, release and sustenance for multiple products/components and technology platforms and partnerships.
• Works closely with Marketing, PMO Team, and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements.
• Responsible for the technical direction of the company by introducing development standards and practices, testing procedures, methodology use, release and deployment guides, control practices, SLA creation and adherence, and analysis of development performance against company targets and KPIs.
• Own the development methodology – see the big picture and identify potential blind spots, ensuring the team and architecture is adjusting dynamically.
• Conduct research and case studies on leading edge technologies and makes determinations on the probability of implementation.
• Make recommendations on potential improvements in all teams and areas of the business to Senior Management.
• Brief the CEO on any technical matters that may require his awareness or review.
• Identify and rectifyany gaps within the team with regards to the quality and velocity of development work.
• Provide recommendations for product development and optimization with respective business units.

Qualifications & Experience 

• 3+ years as a Head of Development in a similar sized organization.
• 7+ years of previous commercial development experience in the software development industry using LAMP Stack / .Net / Java / C++ and associated frameworks.
• Expert in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum).
• Architecture and implementation of large-scale production / critical systems.
• Deep understanding of technology fundamentals, ideally through a computer science degree or equivalent demonstrable knowledge through in-depth practical experience.
• Ideally a good understanding of Asian product/payment vendors and technology providers.

Contact: 

Ms Phuong

•  0839154343 ext 113 
•  phuong.nguyen@firstrecruitment-asia.com

Ms Susan

•  0839154343 ext 111 
•  susan.ho@firstrecruitment-asia.com

Job title: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

• We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to join our unique, fast growing gaming provider who specialise in delivering Agile/SCRUM SDLC projects to service our internal product range and our clients.
• Working for this employer as they experience continued growth you will have a unique to enhance and develop your career working on high profile projects with like-minded and skilled colleagues who are as passionate about providing best in class QA expertise as you are.

• You will also be given the opportunity to complete professional QA certifications (ISEB/OSTQB) to further your skills and knowledge in marketing insight, with a view to becoming a Lead QA in the future.

Position Summary

• This job offers a unique opportunity to work in a high growth company, responsible for performing quality assurance duties throughout the project lifecycle. The Senior QA Analyst is required to evaluate business and functional requirements and transform those requirements into detailed test cases for implementation.
• The successful candidate will be accountable for partnering with Product Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects and the Dev Team to test and certify software code that is aligned to the software testing and development standards and principles, leveraging common testing solutions and services in an Agile/SCRUM methodology.
• The successful candidate must be able to work with minimal or no supervision on large and multiple concurrent projects and to coordinate with other teams as required.

  Role and Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for QA (both functional and performance) for key platforms and applications
• Define, observe, analyse and report on key QA Metrics using bug tracking systems (such as JIRA)
• Work closely with the Development Team and other business areas to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases, and deliver high quality products
• Build Performance testing tools and platforms
• Participate in Quality Assurance activities to include estimation, test planning, test design, performance testing, and test execution
• Develop test plans, test cases and test scripts based upon functional specifications, and document and maintain a test case library
• Participate in functional test planning and testing for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
• Develop testing specifications for applications from the high level design documents for moderate to complex requirements
• Document test cases to ensure that all functionality is performed as intended
• Conduct test case reviews
• Share knowledge by effectively documenting work
• Expert at troubleshooting the solving problems
• Mentor less experienced analysts
• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor with key internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of IT professional experience in Quality Assurance
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical discipline
• Demonstrated experience working in a complex, fast-paced development environment using Agile/SCRUM
• Experience in functional and performance testing, sanity testing, black/white box testing, static testing, positive and negative testing, security testing
• Prior knowledge of QA automation methodologies, processes, and tools (Selenium, Gherkin, Cucumber, Appium) in a CI (Continuous Integration) environment
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases and performing testing
• Experience in load/stress testing (JMeter, LoadRunner, LoadStorm)
• Familiar with development technologies such as LAMP or .Net/SQL Server, Java, C++ (from a testing 
• Experience with collaborative team software tools (Confluence, JIRA, Sharepoint)
• Knowledgeable in using testing tools such as [MS] Test Manager or [IBM Rational] Quality Manager
• Passion for product quality/attention to detail in uncovering hard to find scenarios and bugs
• Very good written and oral communication level in English language
• Prior experience in Gaming (nice to have)

​Contact: 

Ms Phuong

•  0839154343 ext 113 

•  phuong.nguyen@firstrecruitment-asia.com​

​Ms Susan

•  0839154343 ext 111 
•  susan.ho@firstrecruitment-asia.com