Portfolio Manager (Applications) at Hollard Insurance

Role Objectives
Responsible for planning, documenting, defining and evaluating technical integration information for a major application and across application components. Will assist with definition and will document technology platforms and dependencies for multiple environments (development, test, production, etc.). Research the impact that replacing or retiring an application would have on business units and departments. Assist in the rationalizing of the Short-Term Insurance application landscape, migrating redundant systems to a targeted end state Insurance platform and decommissioning of end-of-life systems

• Responsible for implementing Application Portfolio Management (APM), application retirement processes, and application management best practices
• Develop an application decommissioning framework to ensure infrastructure and applications are properly retired
• Executed application rationalization initiatives aimed at reducing our systems footprint
• Review of the IT strategy in order to ensure future systems align to the strategic intent
• Review the application landscape at an enterprise level, in order to ensure a smooth transition from the current state to the targeted end-state architecture
• Classify and document applications to provide the executive with clear information on the application estate for decision making
• Identification of the application and infrastructure components making up the Short-Term insurance landscape
• Assessment of systems in order to identify candidate systems to be decommissioned
• Coordinate activities with other stakeholders i.e. the enterprise architect to ensure broad understanding of architectural approaches and standards across IT
• Assess and document application layering dependencies and application component dependencies
• Assess software licensing impacts of proposed changes
• Assess and document impacts to and dependencies between existing technical and network environments
• Coordinate with other stakeholders to ensure alignment between the strategic end-state and the operational transformation
• Prepare approach papers listing technology options, risks, and impacts therof
• Define decommissioning and migration risk mitigation plans
• Define data dependencies within, between, and among various applications and application components
• Document and maintain relevant architecture artifacts
• Drive delivery of identified areas

Required Knowledge and Experience    

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT (e.g. application developer, project manager or solution architect)
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Project Management
• Should have experience managing technical teams as a development manager, project manager, or team lead
• Fundamental understanding of the application business processes
• In depth knowledge and understanding of information technology approaches, applications, and architectures, tools, and methodologies especially web based applications
• Experience with IT Budgets, Technical Debt and depreciation

Educational Requirements    

• Matric
• BSC computer science and comparative degree