FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 40 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828.
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Purpose
- Own the Group-wide strategy, policy, and outcomes for IT resilience, service reliability, and platform modernization across FWD Group’s infrastructure, cloud platforms, and core system applications
- Set reliability objectives, govern error-budget policy, and hold decision rights over production change risk for NB and Customer facing related services
- Chair the Group Resilience Council and drive a federated SRE operating model across Group Office and Business Units (BUs)
- Strategize, Design, enforce and govern the group resilience standard, all systems must be Highly Availability, with DR plan, with failover plan
- Lead modernization of legacy platforms and production services by defining target-state architectures, resilience patterns, upgrade roadmaps, and remediation priorities to improve availability, scalability, security, and maintainability
- IT SRE provides advice to different teams on how to fix P1/P2 RCAs, drives troubleshooting / analyze / identify where in the code need to be fixed and oversee the entire troubleshooting process
- Drive modernization through observability, automation, SRE practices, and engineering enablement, ensuring incident learnings translate into platform hardening, architectural simplification, and faster, safer delivery
- Act as multi-SME / Generalist team, SMEs of different areas ( Security, Network, Cloud, Application, Infrastructure, etc)
- IT SRE manages and owns the new P1/2 escalation protocol
Key accountabilities
Modernization
- Define and drive the modernization roadmap for core system applications, including lifecycle management, upgrade strategy, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and resilience-by-design requirements
- Lead modernization reviews for core systems to assess architecture fitness, recoverability, scalability, supportability, and security, and translate incident learnings into prioritized remediation and refactoring plans
- Establish modernization guardrails for core application estates covering observability, automation, release engineering, resilience patterns, decommission planning, and adoption of cloud-native or platform-standard capabilities where appropriate