Microservices Engineer

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.

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Why Join

As a Microservices Engineer in Group Engineering at OCBC, you will play a key role in shaping the bank's technology landscape. You will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborating with agile teams to deliver function-centric solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. With a focus on innovation and excellence, you will be part of a team that is driving the bank's digital transformation journey.

How you succeed

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strategic thinker with a passion for technology. You will need to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, understanding business requirements and delivering technical solutions that meet those needs. You will also need to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends, applying your expertise to drive innovation and excellence in our technology solutions.

What you do

• Design and build function-centric solutions in the context of transition from traditional, legacy platforms to microservices architectures

• Define and refactor multi-channel client architecture offering and providing differentiated end-user experiences by leveraging containerization and cloud technology

• Outline the governance and microservices development guiding principles as well as ensuring the best practices are followed by the development team

• Work collaboratively with an agile, scrum-based team to understand the business domain and client requirements that drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality technical solutions and deliverables. These solutions cross a broad spectrum of technologies and must align with business and IT strategies and to comply with the organization's architectural and security standards.

• Participate in coordinated planning sessions and provide effort estimates for business initiatives of IT solutions

• Maintain cutting edge knowledge of current and emerging technologies, industry trends and standards

Who you work with
Group Engineering is a strategic partner to teams across the bank, co-creating products and solutions that drive business growth and innovation. We build the underlying technology applications and services and manage the Group's IT operations and cyber defence. With a focus on delivering exceptional customer experience, we are at the forefront of the bank's digital transformation journey.

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of hands–on experience developing applications using Java/J2EE, with Spring boot framework knowledge and experience

• Advanced skills implementing SOA, API and microservices architecture using any of the market leading solutions

• Experience in implementing business critical, high volume, and highly available services is a must.

• A strong hands-on development track records building integration and application utilizing a variety of technologies, development tools and database systems.  

• Experience with containerization and cloud technologies (eg. OpenShift, Kubernetes, Dockers, Mesos, AWS) as well as DevOps and testing tools (Git, SVN, TFS, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, Selenium, SonarQube)  

• Experience with cloud-based, CD/CI or DevOps development environment

• Good communication skills both in writing and verbally with ability to present the complex ideas or technical solution to business and/or management team

• Domain knowledge in Financial Services industry is desirable

Who we are

Singapore's longest established bank, we've been helping people and businesses get what they want from life 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. Embracing technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our purpose remains: to enable people and communities to realise their aspirations.

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.