Digital Delivery Leader — Banking Platforms

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB)

Singapore

Hybrid

SGD 300,000 - 420,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) invites an Executive Director, Head of Digital Delivery to lead end-to-end delivery of digital banking platforms for Retail and Wholesale Banking. The role oversees a global delivery organization (≥500 engineers) across onshore and offshore sites, ensuring delivery outcomes, reliability and regulatory compliance.

Reporting to the Head of Group Architecture & Digital Technology, you will shape technology strategy, drive modernization, and partner with senior

Qualifications

Proven track record (15+ years) in digital delivery leadership within large financial institutions or technology organizations.
Experience building and running delivery at scale (circa 500 engineers) across on-shore/off-shore and multiple geographies, preferably across ASEAN and China
Strong understanding of Retail and Wholesale Banking processes, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to meet customer/user expectations and the customer journey.
Strong practical command of delivery methodologies - program management, estimation, Disciplined Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall; ability to tailor models to business/regulatory needs.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the technology strategy for digital banking across Retail and Wholesale as part of a broad modernisation program.
Oversee program/portfolio planning, dependency management, and release governance across channels.
Own prioritization, estimation frameworks, capacity planning, and delivery outcomes across the digital banking portfolio.
Ensure transparency on progress, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization.
Manage strategic vendor relationships, contingent workforce, and offshore delivery centers.
Optimize delivery processes across the SDLC by adopting AI-driven tooling, best practices, estimation models, and harmonizing SAFe and Waterfall approaches.
Own delivery of digital banking platforms across mobile, web, engagement systems, workflow platforms, APIs, and integration layers.
Enforce modern engineering practices (Agile, Microservices, Containerization, DevSecOps, CI/CD, SRE) to ensure high availability, resilience, and performance.
Set architectural direction in partnership with Enterprise Architecture.
Lead modernization initiatives including cloud-native adoption, real-time event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, microservices, containers, and API integration.
Champion shared platforms and common services to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity.
Serve as a trusted technology partner to senior leaders across Technology & Operations, Retail, Wholesale, and Group functions.
Provide input on product launches, technical feasibility, delivery roadmaps, partnerships, and market expansion.
Influence at executive level with a focus on business outcomes and customer impact.
Recruit, develop, and retain top talent.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across Retail and Wholesale digital teams, engineering chapters, tribe leads.
Drive capability development, role clarity, and career pathways.
Ensure compliance with MAS and global regulatory standards for resilience, data protection, and auditability.
Embed security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles.
Collaborate with Technology Risk, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance teams to proactively manage risks.