Application Architect

As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

 Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

 We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that shapes the future of banking technology. As a Technology Architecture professional at OCBC, you'll play a key role in designing and implementing innovative solutions that transform the way we deliver financial services. You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented individuals, and develop your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.

How you succeed
To succeed in this role, you'll need to stay ahead of the curve in terms of technology trends and advancements. You'll work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and develop architecture solutions that meet their requirements. You'll also need to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and implementation of technology solutions.

What you do

• Possess good understanding of architecture strategy and roadmap and able to align design towards them interpedently

• Able to produce design blueprints for a complete application as well as end to end design covering multiple interconnected systems and processes

• Update or produce new architecture frameworks and guiding principles for review. Possess good understanding of why, when and how to apply them

• Possess in-depth understanding of more than one functional domain and the processes around it. Able to quickly pick up new domain knowledge. For e.g. payments, core banking, wealth, trade, treasury etc

• Provide detailed design (sequence diagrams, domain-driven, bounded context, granularity of microservices)

• Escalate design and implementation challenges to Architecture and Engineering forum for resolution

• Work hands-on with the development team

• Provide regular support/guidance on complex coding, issue resolution and implementation/execution

• Be part of a learning culture organisation, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued

Who you are

• Preferably 7 years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture and architectural frameworks in Java/J2EE technologies.

• Preferably 3 years of experience in Microservices architecture, Messaging (Kafka, MQ), Database technologies (PostgresDB, MongoDB, OracleDB, MSSQL etc)

• Possess experience or strong knowledge in Cloud and infrastructure setup

• Exceptional communication skills and the demonstrable abilities to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

• Must be a team player that able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus. Must be highly reliable, trustworthy, honest, and commitment oriented

• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities

• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.

• Good experience or strong in thought leaderships, proactive and resourceful

• Experience and knowledge of wealth, trade or treasury type of application systems will be advantageous

Who we are
As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

What we offer
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Equal opportunity. Fair employment. Selection based on ability and fit with our culture and values. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.