Front-Office Trading Technology Architect & Tech Leader

UBS; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

UBS is seeking an experienced Principal Architect for its Hong Kong front-office trading technology stack. You will provide architectural leadership across trading platforms, govern solutions, and influence modernization initiatives with a hands-on engineering mindset.

Role requires 15+ years in investment banking tech, strong governance experience, and the ability to drive performance, resilience, and regulatory alignment across complex environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience designing, delivering, or supporting technology solutions within investment banking or electronic trading environments.
• Strong architectural judgment with experience in governance and ARB reviews.
• Hands-on technical credibility to engage engineering teams on complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior architecture authority for front-office trading platforms and strategic technology initiatives.
• Own architecture standards, roadmaps, governance, and design artefacts.
• Lead architecture reviews through ARB and governance forums.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, resilience, and regulatory standards.
• Drive architectural simplification, consistency, reuse, and long‑term technology alignment.

Skills

Architecture governance

Front-office trading tech

Low-latency trading

Technical leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

AI & automation in engineering

Tools

Corvil

OMS/EMS platforms

Job description

UBS is seeking an experienced Principal Architect for its Hong Kong front-office trading technology stack. You will provide architectural leadership across trading platforms, govern solutions, and influence modernization initiatives with a hands-on engineering mindset.

Role requires 15+ years in investment banking tech, strong governance experience, and the ability to drive performance, resilience, and regulatory alignment across complex environments.