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App Owner/Team Head

11/18/2025

The App Owner/Team Head is accountable for the overall management of the performance and lifecycle of applications, including roadmap development, project delivery, and decommissioning. This role involves overseeing project execution, managing technical debts, and ensuring compliance with SDLC processes.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
BDO is a full-service universal bank in the Philippines. It provides a complete array of industry-leading products and services including Lending (corporate and consumer), Deposit-taking, Foreign Exchange, Brokering, Trust and Investments, Credit Cards, Corporate Cash Management, and Remittances in the Philippines. Through its local subsidiaries, the Bank offers Leasing and Financing, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Rural Banking, Life Insurance, Insurance Brokerage, and Stock Brokerage services. BDO's institutional strengths and value-added products and services hold the key to its successful business relationships with customers. Its branches remain at the forefront of setting high standards as a sales- and service-oriented, customer-focused force. BDO has one of the largest distribution networks, with more than 1,600 operating branches and over 4,500 ATMs nationwide. Through selective acquisitions and organic growth, BDO has positioned itself for increased balance sheet strength and continuing expansion into new markets. As of 30 June 2022, BDO is the country's largest bank in terms of total resources, customer loans, deposits, and assets under management. BDO is a publicly listed company (PLC), with its shares currently being traded at the Philippine Stock Exchange under the symbol “BDO”. BDO Unibank is regulated by the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas. https://www.bsp.gov.ph For concerns, please visit any BDO branch near you or reach us through any of the channels listed in the Consumer Assistance page of our website: https://www.bdo.com.ph/consumer-assistance. Deposits are insured by PDIC up to P1 Million per depositor. The BDO, BDO Unibank and other BDO-related trademarks are owned by BDO Unibank, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
About the Role

Accountable for the overall management of the performance and lifecycle of the applications owned from the development and update of the application roadmap stage, delivery of the application/s and its releases, decommissioning and/or delivery of a replacement system.

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

 

  • With counterpart Product Owner from the business, co-create the roadmap of the applications, how they will evolve and what features and capabilities are to be released following the medium-term and long-term plans

  • Perform market research and comparison with similar products in the market as part of the inputs to the roadmap

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  • Oversee the development, review, and approve application architecture and designs to ensure their consistency to the roadmap and that technical debts are avoided/minimized

  • Manage the overall delivery of projects and application releases by overseeing them from planning, execution, monitoring & control, closure, and ensure the compliance to prevailing SDLC framework and processes

  • Provide directions and decisions on project-level strategies, tactical plans, and issue resolutions to ensure the compliance to project scope, timeline, cost and quality

  • Continuously formulate, measure, attain and improve application key performance indicators in alignment to achieving the business goals in relation to the use of the product/application

  • Generate reports and regularly assess the performance of the applications and derive from them improvement initiatives and incorporate them release plans

  • Manage and ensure that outstanding technical debts, audit items, risks on the owned applications are tracked and closed in a timely manner

  • Manage risks to project delivery by ensuring proper project governance and measures in place and complied with

  • Conduct regular management and stakeholder presentations on the status and updates of the projects

  • Manage medium-term and annual application budgets and ensure tracking and reporting to hierarchy (IT, business, senior management)

  • Ensure organizational capability and capacity, formulate strategies and plans to address gaps

  • Perform People Management through defining, measuring and tracking of annual individual KPIs, individual development plans (IDP), manage successions and promotions

  • Review and manage the development and fulfillment of contracts

 

Qualifications:

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (e.g. Computer Science/Engineering, MIS, etc.)

  • At least 10 years of experience in IT across various roles including software delivery, project management, and product management

  • Has experience in managing mobile applications and similar products of the application to

  • be owned (e.g. e-commerce, Fintech, payment systems/services)Has experience in managing a team or group accountable for ownership of an application/product

  • Has experience in managing systems involving mobile app frontend, APIs, cloud-based platforms and services

  • Must be willing to be assigned and work on-site in Makati/Ortigas

BDO Unibank, Inc. provides equal opportunity to all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on job requirements and candidate qualifications, and shall not be influenced by any consideration  of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national or ethnic origin, or disability.                                                                                                                       Requisition ID: 16434

Key Skills
Application ManagementProject ManagementProduct ManagementMarket ResearchApplication DevelopmentApplication ArchitectureTechnical Debt ManagementPerformance MeasurementRisk ManagementStakeholder ManagementBudget ManagementPeople ManagementContract ManagementMobile ApplicationsCloud-Based PlatformsAPIs
Categories
TechnologyManagement & LeadershipSoftware
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