Senior Developer (Web API Management)

uobgroup; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) in Malaysia invites experienced engineers to join the InnoHub2 team. The role emphasizes end-to-end delivery across payments, real-time data services and Open Banking APIs, with a focus on building secure, scalable solutions in a banking environment.

You will work with stakeholders to define requirements, implement features, and coordinate with vendors for integration. The position offers growth opportunities within UOB’s innovation hub.

Qualifications

• Experience in a highly secured environment (financial services) with good understanding of security controls and audits.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis and propose solutions with the team.
• Service management and production support experience is advantageous.
• Experience in building/operating complex integrated solutions (online and batch integrations).
• Proficiency with LinuxRH or equivalent distributions (RHEL).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software development lifecycle and production support for transitioned projects.
• Collaborate with business analysts to define requirements and deliver technical solutions for Payments, real-time data and Open Banking APIs.
• Deliver new features and integrate across multiple teams to provide holistic solutions.

Skills

Security management

Agile & DevOps

Payments domain

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Axway API Gateway

NoSQL Cassandra

IBM MQ Connect Direct

Apache Camel

Spring Boot

Job description

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in ASEAN with a global network in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Operating through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, we have a global network of about 430 branches and offices in 19 markets. At the heart of UOB is our culture, shaped by the UOB Way and anchored on our four values - Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed. For more than 90 years, these values have guided how we do right by our customers, collaborate with one another and create long-term value for the communities we operate in. As One Bank, we are committed to helping our colleagues build sustainable careers grounded in purpose, supported by strong values, and enriched with meaningful opportunities to grow.

Job Description

About The Department

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub2) is a UOB-wholly owned subsidiary and a Centre of Excellence based in Malaysia, providing Group Business Services (GBS) to support the UOB Group. Started in 2021 with technology application design, development and support, InnoHub2 is expanding beyond technology services to deliver other business services to support the Bank's growth ambition. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to be part of the pioneer team spearheading the development and delivery of the new services.

As part of the InnoHub2 team, you will have the opportunity to work on Group initiatives and gain regional business exposure. We are dynamic, passionate and purposeful about delivering trusted financial solutions that enables business growth. An exciting career progression with varied opportunities awaits you at IH2. Come grow your career with us.

Job Responsibilities

• You will be involved extensively and be responsible for the end-to-end software development lifecycle and support for all work transitioned from UOB Group (which could be projects, quarterly change requests, L3 production fixes). This includes analysis and design to development, implementation, testing and support.
• You will be expected to work with various stakeholders (including business analysts) to understand/define functional and non-functional requirements and provide technical solutions for the domain area of Payments, Real-Time Data Services and Open Banking APIs (PRO) - with main focus on web-based integration APIs and payments.
• With a primary role as a team member of the application development team, you will mainly be responsible for analysis and delivery of new features and integration and work with other teams for end to end solutions.
• Act as point of contact for technical solutions for the applications in scope.
• Where required, coordinate with 3rd party product vendors and/or integration partners for development and testing.
• Provide timely updates and report to management.
• Work with stakeholders to manage and prioritize the overall book of work against the team's capacity.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives relating to methods, tools, people, architecture, project management and governance.

Job Requirements

The ideal candidate should have experience in implementing/operating large-scale and complex mission-critical solutions:

• Prior experience in a highly secured environment (eg: financial services) with good understanding on security and audits, encryption, 2FA or multi-factor authentication (MFA).
• Experience in troubleshooting issues, performing root cause analysis, and identifying potential solutions with the team will be an added advantage.
• Service management and production support experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience in application development and operations of complex integrated application solutions (online and batch integrations):
• Mandatory: RHEL (or other equivalent Linux distributions).
• Either one of the following group of core competencies:
  • Competency in API gateway and API management platforms (preferably Axway) AND NoSQL database (preferably Cassandra) AND competency in security management across the layers (eg: SSL/TLS).
  • Competency in modern Java microservice-based application development stack (Spring Boot) AND competency with relational database management systems (preferably Oracle and MariaDB).
• Competency with messaging queue-based integration implementation (preferably IBM MQ Connect Direct) will be an added advantage.
• Competency with integration framework like Apache Camel will be an added advantage.
• Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices will be an added advantage.
• Domain knowledge in various payment functions (validation, processing) and corresponding technical solutions will be an added advantage.

Additional Requirements

Develop, Engage, Execute, Strategise

Be a Part of the UOB Family

Equal Opportunity Statement

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical