Application Development - AVP

OCBC Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Holistic benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Wellbeing and growth support

Job summary

OCBC Group seeks an experienced Senior .NET Application Engineer to join the FinIQ squad. You will validate vendor deliveries, manage source code, deployments, and environments, and coordinate releases across multiple stages. Prior fintech, trading, or order-management exposure is valued.

You will contribute to solution design, architecture discussions, and incident resolution while supporting production and non-production environments in a fast-paced financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field.
• 10–12 years of software development experience.
• Strong background in enterprise app development and support.

Responsibilities

• Validate vendor deliveries and assess changes.
• Review release contents, DB scripts, and deployment needs.
• Coordinate deployments across dev, SIT, UAT, and prod.
• Troubleshoot MS IIS-hosted apps and integrations.
• Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and triage.

Skills

.NET Framework/.NET Core

C#

REST APIs

Microservices

IIS

OpenShift

DevOps

Jenkins

CI/CD

SQL Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology

Tools

OpenShift

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Liquibase

SQL Server

Oracle

Kafka

Control-M

Job description

WHO WE ARE: As Singapore's longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we're on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia's leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Senior .NET Application Engineer Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior .NET Application Engineer to join our FinIQ squad. FinIQ is a vendor-provided financial markets product, and the internal team is responsible for validating vendor deliveries, managing source code, deploying releases, maintaining environments, participating in solution and architecture discussions, and coordinating defect triage. The successful candidate will combine strong hands‑on development experience with application support, release management, deployment, troubleshooting, and stakeholder coordination skills. Experience in trading, order management, or financial markets applications will be highly valuable.

Experience Required

• At least 10-12 years of overall software development experience
• Strong experience in enterprise application development and application support
• Experience working with vendor-managed or third‑party software products is preferred
• Experience in end-to-end Microservices and Microfrontend deployment, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure configuration, and production releases
• Experience supporting production and non-production environments, including incident investigation and defect resolution
• Experience participating in technical design, solution architecture, release validation, and deployment activities

Key Responsibilities

• Validate and assess software deliveries received from the FinIQ product vendor
• Review release contents, application changes, database scripts, configuration changes, and deployment requirements
• Support source code management and release branching activities
• Coordinate and execute application deployments across development, SIT, UAT, and production environments
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Microservices and Microfrontend applications
• Support IIS-hosted applications and investigate application, infrastructure, and integration issues
• Review and validate database changes before deployment
• Participate in solution design and architecture discussions with internal teams and the vendor
• Perform technical impact analysis for enhancements, fixes, and releases
• Lead or contribute to defect triage, root‑cause analysis, and resolution tracking
• Collaborate with application support, infrastructure, DevOps, database, QA, and vendor teams
• Support environment maintenance, deployment readiness, and release planning
• Ensure technical documentation, deployment instructions, and operational procedures are complete and accurate
• Assist with troubleshooting issues involving APIs, messaging, databases, scheduled jobs, and external integrations

Technical Skills Required

• Hands‑on development experience with:
  • .NET Framework and/or .NET Core
  • C#
  • REST APIs and service‑oriented application development
  • Microservices architecture and implementation
  • IIS configuration, hosting, and troubleshooting
• Experience with frontend development using:
  • AngularJS or ReactJS
  • Microfrontend architecture and implementation
  • Frontend build, packaging, configuration, and deployment
• Experience deploying and supporting microservices and microfrontends on:
  • OpenShift
  • Containers and container-based deployments
• Experience with DevOps and source code management tools:
  • Bitbucket
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Build, packaging, deployment, and release processes
• Experience with database deployment and version management using:
  • Liquibase
• Strong experience with at least one relational database:
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle
• Understanding of:
  • Apache Kafka – topics, producers, consumers, message flow, and troubleshooting
  • Control-M or equivalent enterprise scheduling tools – scheduling, monitoring, dependency management, and failure handling of batch jobs
  • Good understanding of application configuration, logging, monitoring, integration troubleshooting, and environment management

Preferred / Added Advantage

• Experience in financial markets, trading, or order management systems
• Knowledge of trade lifecycle processes and order processing
• Experience with FIX connectivity
• Understanding of the FIX Protocol, including messages, sessions, connectivity, and troubleshooting
• Experience with equity derivatives or other capital markets products
• Exposure to high-availability, distributed, and event-driven systems
• Experience working with vendor application teams and managing third‑party product releases

Behavioural and Collaboration Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to understand an existing vendor product and assess the impact of changes
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to coordinate effectively with vendors, developers, testers, infrastructure teams, database teams, and business stakeholders
• Strong ownership of assigned deliverables and incidents
• Willingness to participate in release activities and occasional out-of-hours deployment or support, where required

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Relevant professional certifications in .NET, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, OpenShift, or databases would be advantageous

What we offer:

• Competitive base salary.
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

As the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, we have grown from strength to strength to become a regional financial services group. With a deep history in Asia, we offer the most comprehensive coverage across ASEAN and Greater China, complemented with a presence in the leading economies of New York, London and Sydney. We are the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets with one of the world's highest credit rating (Aa1 by Moody's and AA- by both Fitch and S&P). We offer private banking services through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals. Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia.