Strategic Architect: Front Office Trading Tech

UBS AG; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

UBS is seeking a Principal Architect for Front Office Trading Technology in Hong Kong. You will lead architectural governance, set standards, and steer modernization across OMS, execution platforms, market data, and risk controls while balancing performance, resilience, security, and regulatory requirements.

Leverage 15+ years of trading tech experience to influence critical architectural decisions, engage engineering teams, and drive scalable, low-latency platforms in a global financial

Qualifications

• 15+ years designing, delivering, or supporting tech in investment banking or trading.
• Proven governance experience with ARB reviews and strategic tech decisions.
• Hands-on technical background to influence design and deep technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across front-office trading tech landscape.
• Lead ARB governance, review and approval of solutions.
• Ensure compliance with security, resilience, regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, risk, and business stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Drive scalability, performance, and cost efficiency across platforms.

Skills

15+ years experience

Architecture governance

Low-latency trading

Distributed systems

AI adoption

Tools

Corvil

Job description

UBS is seeking a Principal Architect for Front Office Trading Technology in Hong Kong. You will lead architectural governance, set standards, and steer modernization across OMS, execution platforms, market data, and risk controls while balancing performance, resilience, security, and regulatory requirements.

Leverage 15+ years of trading tech experience to influence critical architectural decisions, engage engineering teams, and drive scalable, low-latency platforms in a global financial