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VP/AVP, Full Stack Engineer, Wealth Management Technology, Group Technology

Summary

Lead architecture and engineering for DBS’s wealth management platforms, building scalable full-stack systems in Java/Springboot/React/Python to power financial planning and investment journeys.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the strategic architecture and solutioning for enterprise-grade portfolio and wealth management platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and future-proofing.
  • Shape and evolve engineering, architecture, and product strategies for end-to-end financial planning system for RM, including:
    • Financial need analysis, investment objectives
    • Products recommendation
    • Case management
    • Investment and insurance fulfilment journeys
  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex full-stack solutions that underpin critical financial planning journeys (case management, workflow, financial objectives, need analysis etc.) across investment and insurance products.
  • Oversee and manage up to 3 squads of highly skilled full-stack engineers, providing strategic direction, technical guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, microservice, distributed micro-frontend architectures, and advanced engineering practices to build world-class platforms.
  • Define and enforce best practices for CI/CD, DevOps, and deployment strategies utilizing platforms like OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), ensuring operational excellence and rapid delivery.
  • Provide leadership in nurturing and developing engineering talent, including setting performance expectations, providing mentorship, and promoting continuous learning.
  • Evaluate and integrate AI assistant coding tools and other emerging technologies into the development ecosystem to maximize efficiency and innovation.
  • Maintain an extensive understanding of the financial services industry, regulatory landscape, and global technology trends, applying this knowledge to steer strategic initiatives.

Requirements

  • Extensive and demonstrable experience in architecting, building, and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade full-stack platforms using Java, Springboot, ReactJS, and Python.
  • Proven expertise in designing, implementing and operate mission-critical investment and portfolio managements system that serve millions of users, with a focus on high availability, low latency and strong operational resilience.
  • Deep architectural knowledge of distributed systems, micro-services, and advanced micro-frontend patterns.
  • Mastery of CI/CD methodologies, advanced DevOps practices, and significant experience with cloud-native deployment platforms such as OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or similar.
  • Exceptional leadership and management experience, with the ability to lead and inspire multiple engineering squads and drive large-scale technical initiatives.
  • Strong strategic thinking and planning capabilities, with a proven ability to define and execute long-term technology roadmaps.
  • Strong domain expertise in portfolio management platforms, spanning one or more of the following:
    • Investment, insurance products
    • Knowledge on Banca; integrate with different insurance partners
    • Workflow – Activiti, Camunda
  • Demonstrated experience in leveraging and integrating AI assistant coding tools and other innovative technologies to enhance engineering productivity and capabilities.
  • Outstanding communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; an advanced degree is a plus.

Location

DBS Asia Hub

Job

Technology

Schedule

Regular

Employee Status

Full time

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