Senior Technical Developer, Cards (Microservices, JAVA development)

uobgroup; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

6255 UOB Innovation Hub 2 Sdn Bhd is seeking a Senior Delivery Leader to drive the development and delivery of card technology solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders from inception to deployment to ensure high quality, compliant enhancements and timely delivery across platforms.

You will lead across requirements, design, development, testing, integration and post‑implementation support, while championing CI/CD, IaC, and security practices.

Qualifications

• Delivery, Project, Stakeholder & Vendor Management experience, and Technical Delivery Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders from project inception through deployment to ensure quality and compliant card technology enhancements.
• Lead end-to-end delivery across requirements management, design, development, testing, integration and post-implementation support.
• Champion CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code practices while ensuring patching and security standards.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and perform root cause analysis with preventive actions.
• Mentor onshore and offshore teams, fostering technical excellence and cross‑unit collaboration.
• Maintain technical documentation, design artefacts and runbooks; participate in capacity planning and disaster recovery.
• Coordinate with vendors to ensure timely product deliveries and effective post-implementation support.

Job description

Company: 6255 UOB Innovation Hub 2 Sdn Bhd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

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 responsible to collaborate, engage and work with stakeholders from project inception, analysis, design, development, testing to pre- and post-deployment phases. Key objective is to ensure good quality and smooth delivery of cards technology system enhancements that are fully in compliance with mandated framework and guidelines.

The role involves technical delivery across requirements management, design and development, testing, integration, and planning for deployment and support. Leverage AI tools and technologies to improve efficiency, decision-making, and innovation in daily workflows.

Application Development & Delivery

• Lead development and implementation Cards related applications with overall accountability ensuring product deliveries are timely and with good quality.
• Partner with System Analyst & subject matter experts to understand and implement functional and technical requirements
• Provide systems input to specification phase (e.g., effort estimates, high-level delivery plan) based on impact assessment (e.g., function points)
• Partner with Architects, Security and System Analysts to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards. Have a hands-on approach to ensure that the application teams build the enhancements according to the solution plan
• Drive platform modernization initiatives in collaboration with Architecture, Risk, and Infrastructure teams.
• Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of SIT, UAT, performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results
• Work with Security to facilitate completion of penetration testing and remediation of findings in accordance with Mitigation Plan
• Prepare and manage technical implementation plan across application teams
• Coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support
• Escalate issues that impact project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions
• Work with vendor to ensure product deliveries are timely and of good quality.
• Manage budgets coming from different projects.
• Ensure project documentation is done up in accordance with bank standards

DevOps & Technical Governance

• Champion CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Ensure compliance with patching, vulnerability remediation, and security standards.
• Manage deployments and change control processes.

Incident & Problem Management

• Provide technical leadership during major incidents.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
• Collaborate with support teams for smooth production transitions.

Team & Stakeholder Management

• Lead high-performing teams across onshore and offshore locations.
• Mentor team members and foster technical excellence.
• Collaborate with business units, vendors, and compliance teams to align delivery with strategic goals.

Operational Excellence

• Drive continuous improvement across development and delivery processes.
• Maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and runbooks.
• Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance tuning

Job Requirements

Delivery, Project, Stakeholder & Vendor Management experience, & Technical Delivery Leadersh