Technology Manager

SimplifyNext is the largest Intelligent Automation Services Provider in ASEAN, dedicated to enabling the future of work for organizations across the region. Our technology advisory, implementation, and capability development services allow our clients to unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and business outcomes.

At SimplifyNext, we are committed to empowering our employees to make a positive impact for our clients, people, and the broader community. Since our inception in 2018, we have established ourselves as a leader in the industry, earning numerous Global and Asia Pacific region awards along the way. Our success is due in no small part to the dedication and contributions of our talented team, which includes industry leaders and top technologists.

Despite our rapid growth, we remain committed to embodying a startup culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and creativity. We are proud to focus on mentoring and grooming the next generation of consulting practitioners and technology experts, ensuring that we continue to provide exceptional services to our clients and make a meaningful impact on the communities we serve. In addition to working on projects for our clients, our people spend time to build the broader ecosystem including students at universities and polytechnics through trainings, mentoring, hackathons, etc.

What you’ll do

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provides a basis for taking on a lot of mundane, repetitive tasks and freeing up time for the employees to focus on more meaningful work, which leads to better productivity, greater innovation, and stronger business results. However, it is not enough to continue looking only at the automation of tasks. Businesses are looking to add intelligence to automation technology, where it can start to think like people think and analyze the way people analyze.

As a Technology Manager with SimplifyNext, you would focus on the next generation of automation and reshape the future of work at the confluence of RPA, artificial intelligence and analytics. You would work on the leading RPA platforms, integrate them with AI solutions for computer vision and natural language processing, and use analytics to gain insights on both the processes and robots themselves.

Your responsibilities would include:

Manage the end-to-end project delivery lifecycle based on SimplifyNext's methodology and standards.

Establish and prepare project plans, project milestones and deliverables in consultation with the clients.

Work with clients to define and document requirements to analyze, design and implement projects based on best practices.

Provide inputs on the technical design approaches and best practices.

Take a pivotal role in project delivery and lead teams to deliver project as per client requirements.

Manage the implementation of the project on a day-to-day basis regarding schedules, budget, manpower and quality.

Escalate and discuss project overrun issues, scope creep, integration issues, resource requirements with the management team.

Plan, track and monitor the tasks assigned to the team leader / members.

Delegate tasks effectively to junior team members by providing clear and specific instructions and goals.

Coach and supervise junior resources within the project in completing their deliverables.

Review the team’s work to ensure that all tasks and deliverables are proceeding according to schedule and client’s requirements.

Provide leadership to the project team to ensure that proposals / enhancements are fully analyzed and evaluated.

Provide performance feedback and developmental coaching to project team members

Work with Sales and Business Development team to identify and manage new business opportunities for SimplifyNext and participate in all aspects of the proposal development process.

Build long-term relationship with our clients.

Shape deals with clients and follow up with them to ensure great results thereby improving client relationship / expectations.

Contribute to setting the strategic direction for the Technology practice within SimplifyNext.

What you'll bring

Bachelor's Degree with 5 to 8 years’ experience at a consulting or a technology organization.

Must have track record in managing end-to-end project implementation lifecycle.

Experience in leading either a small project or a workstream in a large project, including client stakeholder interactions and managing own team.

Certified in PMP would be added advantage.

Excellent communications and inter-personal skills, and passion to deliver quality work.

Good understanding of object-oriented programming, VB.NET and/or C#.

Strong logical approach and problem-solving skills.

About Our Company

We are a consulting and technology company, which has been formed by leading consulting practitioners to build an agile practice that delivers value to our clients at speed, mentors and grooms the next generation of consulting practitioners and technology experts and boosts a culture of creativity and happiness at work. We are based in Singapore and have clients across the ASEAN region.