Assistant Technical Manager, Application Development - ITWS - 311

The IT Wagering Solutions Department of The Hong Kong Jockey Club provides technology solutions for the management and delivery of racing wagering and lottery businesses, including transaction processing ledgers, wagering product management and racing event management.

• Engaging in  effort estimation, service and application architecture & design, code construction, testing, maintenance and support of betting systems and IT solutions
• Conducting feasibility studies to evaluate or pilot new business-enabling technology
• Planning resources to accomplish development tasks, monitor and report the progress
• Performing software development and conduct review according to business requirements and defined Club IT processes and standards
• Seeking opportunities to continuously improve work practices and team achievements.
  
  Mentor junior staff.
• Providing support and conducting trouble-shooting when problems are found
• Communicating with business development, operations and assurance teams
• Work closely with stakeholders, Shenzhen development teams, System Assurance, Infrastructure and Operation teams to deliver high quality betting systems
• Create and foster a diverse and inclusive culture with trust and respect to attract, develop and retain talents.  Serve as a role model to support cross team/division/department efforts and model collaborative behaviours.
  
  Inspire the team to bring forward ideas and solutions to empower the people to accelerate for business success.

• Bachelor Degree or above in Computer Science, IT or related discipline
• 4+ years’ hands-on experience in application development, less experience will be considered as junior position
• 2+ years’ experience in Java development, experience in C# is a plus
• Solid experience in RDBMS, experience in NoSQL is a plus.
• Experience in real time, high throughput and low latency system is preferred
• Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery methodologies and technologies is an advantage
• Experience in leading a team is an advantage
• Experience in cloud native implementation is a plus
• Experience in Agile practice and process is a plus
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, C#
• Understanding of and its core principles
• Experience with popular workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with data structure libraries style=margin-left:8px> Experience with RESTful APIs and web socket.
• Experience in building web applications using HTML5/CSS3, LESS/SASS
• Familiarize with code versioning tools such as Git, Bit Bucket

The level of appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.