We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Technology Lead to head our technical team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in overseeing the ongoing development and maintenance of our VB Discovery platform. You will recruit and manage internal and external development resources and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure our platform remains at the forefront of technology and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee a comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with the company's vision and objectives
• Lead the development and maintenance of the VB Discovery platform
• Recruit and manage a team of internal and/or external developers skilled in React, Node, and other relevant technologies while also being able to contribute to coding as well
• Oversee the platform's technical performance, ensuring high availability and optimal performance
• Ensure the platform's architecture is scalable and secure, supporting a growing user base
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance platform functionality and user experience
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, applying this knowledge to drive innovation

Requirements

• Proven experience in a technology leadership role in a startup environment
• Familiar with end-to-end software development cycle, including design, testing, implementation, security audit, and maintenance
• Previous track record of building a large-scale, user-centric online platform using React, Node, and/or other modern web technologies
• Hands-on knowledge of one or more programming languages would be highly preferred
• Excellent understanding of technical management, information analysis, and computer hardware/software systems
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• BS in Computer Science, MIS or similar field

At AIA we've started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone. As pioneering innovators for over 100 years, we're now transforming our organisation to be faster, simpler and more connected. Because we want to be even better equipped to develop digital solutions and experiences that help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. To get there, we need people with tech/digital/analytics expertise and passion to help develop positive, sustainable change through digitally enhanced experiences that will impact the lives of millions of people and create a healthier future for everyone. If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, read on. About the Role Responsible for providing application development and support services to meet AIA's business needs Develop native mobile applications with current best-practices Participate in and contribute to all phases of the application development life cycle Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code Cooperating with back-end developers, designers, and the rest of the team to deliver well-architected and high-quality solutions Working with the agile squad(s) to conceptualize and build mobile applications. Suggesting improvements to Mobile Application Architecture and design patterns Ensuring the best performance and user experience of the application, as well as security Requirements: Possess a degree in Computer Science or related fields. Minimum 5 years of hands-on IT experience in iOS/Android native mobile application development Experience working in agile squads, and an appreciation of the issues that agile solves Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience in React Native, Swift/Objective-C Solid understanding of iOS/Android Applications life cycle. Familiarity with DevOps (CI/CD), GIT, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc Good level of understanding of object-oriented programming, unit testing, and modern architectural design. Familiarity with RESTful APIs. Code-debugging skills are required Experience in ReactJS development will be a plus A problem-solver with the ability to work effectively in small teams Able to manage one's time effectively and to prioritize tasks in the face of competing demands Strong analytical and problem-solving skills #LI-SC1 Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. You must provide all requested information, including Personal Data, to be considered for this career opportunity. Failure to provide such information may influence the processing and outcome of your application. You are responsible for ensuring that the information you submit is accurate and up-to-date.

As an engineer in OCBC, you will be part of a team, building applications that work at scale to support various banking products, services, and also enable development workflows. We are looking for a full-stack developer who can build APIs, front-ends, back-ends, and tools that interact with other bank services. You will be part of every stage of development, from concept to deployment. If you're passionate about the fintech, want to be part of a group that works on new products, have the opportunity to shape them, and enjoy crafting robust, scalable, and maintainable services, we may be the team for you! Description • Develop and maintain highly reliable and scalable services and applications • Create automation that works on Windows, macOS and Linux servers • Build APIs and UIs that are simple and powerful • Understand product requirements, engage with team members and customers to define solutions, and estimate the scope of work required • Collaborate with, mentor, and influence members within your team and across other teams in OCBC • Deliver solutions that can keep up with a rapidly evolving product in a timely fashion Qualifications • Solid Java development experience. • Experience with at least one other programming language (C#, Kotlin, Golang). • Knowledge in Microservices, Functions, Event-driven/reactive programming or other Cloud Native architectures • Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs • Experience with Cloud Native Platforms including Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker Enterprise, or Cloud Foundry in the public cloud • Experience with JavaScript and one or more front-end frameworks such as React or AngularJS • Mobile app development experience is preferred • Expertise in building highly available production services, including deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and scaling • Good understanding of containers, build systems, and infrastructure automation • Experience with DevOps and Agile engineering practices

Our client is a leading quant and systematic hedge fund, leveraging their deep knowledge of trading, technology and operations to deliver high-quality, uncorrelated returns. Seeking a C++ Developer to join their Singapore team with a background in building highly performant, resilient trading systems. As part of the Risk Technology team, your main focus will be the design, build out and maintaining of the trading risk platform, currently receiving significant investment to develop a new service-oriented architecture. Collaborating across the business, you will lead and contribute to design discussions, developing production-critical software capable of processing high volumes of both live and historical trading data, as well as solving data processing and storing challenges. You will also mentor & coach other team members. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent opportunities for career growth. To be successful, you'll need to be passionate about development, and enjoy sharing your engineering best practice and knowledge with colleagues. Requirements 3+ years' professional C++ development experience in a Linux environment Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related) Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms Excellent critical and analytical problem-solving skills Keen team player, and top-notch communicator Nice to have Experience optimizing code for high performance applications Experience with large-scale distributed systems & service-oriented architecture Experience with messaging systems, e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID; Python, bash and/or Q/KDB Benefits Great opportunity to be part of a tech-driven environment with close collaboration between desks Market-leading compensation + generous benefits Relaxed, friendly culture, with a regular socials Contact If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch! Amy Gandhi [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019 linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109

APAC Group Technology Head of Consumer Loans, Lending, Credit TOM - perm in SG Banking   Reporting to the Head of Consumer Banking Ops & Tech, the role will lead and focus on the increased use of technology as a differentiator in how the Bank grows its business and engages with customers and partners. The primary responsibility, therefore, covers the overall management and leadership of the day-to-day technology needs of Consumer Loans across Infrastructure, Applications, Architecture, Innovation & Solution Delivery Services as well as continuing to improve the bank’s IT capabilities and complete transformation initiatives. The role will oversee the bank’s strategic initiatives and programs specific to Group Consumer's Lending platforms and capabilities.   The ideal candidate is a proven technology and operations evangelist with a track record of ensuring operational excellence of technology delivery in a leading financial institution.  The role requires a seasoned technologist who brings a mix of strong functional experience (including Operations), combined with the experience of developing a technology vision for all or part of the organization, transforming her/his (technological) vision into measurable results.   Stakeholder Management Act as Business CIO for senior stakeholders in Consumer Lending. Partners with business stakeholders to support effective business change by building relationships with business leaders, technology, and operations partners. Engages with business stakeholders to discuss and shaping their ability to build business and operational capability.   Change Implementation Planning & Management Anticipate the business challenges, objectives of the Group’s initiatives to be undertaken, high-level budgets, and success criteria. Partner the business and wider teams to deliver the business strategy through enabling business and operational capability. This includes championing and obtain stakeholder alignment to define the Group roadmaps and operating model strategies needed, embedding the roadmaps for various Strategic Programs. Undertake scoping and solutioning of new initiatives.  Define overall considerations, including business outcomes, functional and non-functional requirements, and regional platform/TOM approach (reusability) to provide a recommendation. Lead the team to execute the prioritized initiatives to delivery business values covering revenue generation, improved customer experience and/or cost reduction. Manage a program of works for successful execution from all stakeholders to deliver the agreed roadmaps. Lead a team of project managers and functional business analysts to shape and deliver the various Strategic Programs. Partner the wider teams to shape their technical and operational resource capabilities to deliver the various Strategic Programs. Spot potential problems, recognize the risk impact, and propose risk mitigation strategies.   Sustainable Improvements Build a sustainable process for measuring benefits to ensure Group resources are aligned to business initiatives which provide the highest ROI.   In return for this excellent career opportunity, we ask that you have the following:   Tertiary Degree in Banking, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering or similar domain with a reputable institute Demonstrated competency involving technology and operational processes across Consumer Lending Portfolio management, Origination, Collection processes and systems Experience in scoping and evaluation – Defining overall considerations, including scalability, maintainability, cost, operations, and technology risk to provide a recommendation. Manage divergent agendas and divergent stakeholders with win-win solution. Manage organizational ambiguity and differing stakeholder views. Contribute to business strategies and ability to translate them into concrete achievable action plans Collaborate and drive motivation across a diverse slate team members and deal with difficult conversations. Own and enhance workflows and processes, and delegate with clear accountabilities across the teams for delivery of outcomes Create an environment of learning and development through each other’s success and failures. Understand and channel team members to their personal and professional growth via challenging and stretch assignments Strategic forward-thinking approach to challenges with outstanding influencing, negotiation, and persuasion skills     If this speaks to you and you are ready for a new challenge, please send your Resume in MS word format to [email protected]   Even if you are not interested, you can still park your CV with us for other Banking IT positions or forward this Advertisement to your counterparts with the relevant Banking IT experiences I am looking for.   We Seek to: Understand your personal circumstances, needs and ideals Present your credentials to our clients only with your permission Strategize and consult with you     Your application will be kept with the strictest of confidence.   EA License No. 09C5803 Registration No. R1114115

Executive Director / Senior VP, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Group Technology Posting Date: 13 Nov 2023 Location: Alexandra Road, Singapore, Singapore Company: 3677 About UOB United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers. About the Department Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. We have centralized and standardized the technology components into Singapore, creating a global footprint which can be utilized for supporting our regional subsidiaries and the branches around the world. We operate and support 19 countries with this architecture to provide a secure and flexible banking infrastructure. Our Operations divisions provide transactional customer services for our businesses while also focusing on cost efficiency through process improvements, automation and straight through processing. Job Responsibilities You will be an Enterprise Architect for UOB and be involved in activities across different functional domains and technologies. Your responsibility is to enable the purpose of the enterprise-wide architecture function, supported by domain architects who provide domain expertise. Partner with and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in both business and IT to assist in defining and delivering high quality enterprise capable solutions Work closely with stakeholders to develop practical roadmaps to move the enterprise towards the future state vision, while considering business, technical and delivery constraints Analyze stakeholder requirements, current state architecture, and gaps to create a future state architecture vision for one or more parts of the enterprise with a focus on reduced complexity, cost efficiencies, reuse, convergence, reduced risk and/or improved business capabilities Participate in defining and operating the architecture governance process to ensure change initiatives align to the vision and roadmaps Work closely with Domain Architects across key initiatives and projects to apply architecture principles and standards, and develop reference architectures and design patterns Communicate the principles, standards, vision, and roadmaps to stakeholders and proactively address any questions / concerns identified Provide thought leadership on architectural or other topics, develop a forward-looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on the Enterprise Architecture Maintain and improve the process and tools to enable Enterprise Architect functions, owns and enhances workflows and processes, and delegates with clear accountabilities across the teams to meet objectives / outcomes Embed Platform Thinking in everything Job Requirements Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent preferred; Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent) Technically strong in different integration mechanisms with open systems, AS400 and Mainframe Comfortable in working in an environment which is vendor-intensive Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation Be independent, a quick learner Have good communication skills to work with various seniorities of stakeholders and colleagues. Excellent analytical skills (critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills) A passion for learning and the willingness to solve problems. Strong negotiation skill and results oriented. Good in time management and able to multi-tasking. Good team player and able to drive consensus amongst stakeholders with conflicting viewpoints and objectives Capability to think conceptually and identify patterns across seemingly-unrelated situations Be a part of UOB Family UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application. Apply now and make a difference.