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VP, Team Lead, SRE Engineer, Core Banking Technology, Group Technology | Singapore, SG

DBS Bank Limited

Singapore

On-site

SGD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a VP, Team Lead, SRE Engineer to manage core banking technology. The role involves handling production incidents, implementing improvements, and collaborating with teams to ensure system stability. This position requires extensive experience in banking and SRE, along with strong communication skills. The bank offers a competitive salary and benefits in a dynamic environment that supports your development.

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of banking experience, with 5+ years in a lead role.
  • Hands-on experience with RDBMS, Unix, cloud platforms, and large banking applications.

Responsibilities

  • Handle critical core banking applications production incidents.
  • Automate manual tasks and improve system performance.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and development teams.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering
Automation
Effective Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree or higher

Tools

Elasticsearch
Logstash
Grafana
Kibana
AppDynamics

Job description

VP, Team Lead, SRE Engineer, Core Banking Technology, Group Technology

VP, Team Lead, SRE Engineer, Core Banking Technology, Group Technology

Business Function
Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble, and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability, and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and aim to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Responsibilities

  1. End-to-end handling of critical core banking applications production incidents, including incident analysis, recovery, interfacing systems, communication during major incidents, code fixes, and review of production changes before deployment.
  2. Implement application improvements focusing on performance, operational efficiency, system identification, and remediation, including automation of manual tasks.
  3. Automate manual activities and system health checks for production teams, ensuring SLIs/SLOs are met.
  4. Manage production issues from analysis to deployment, following established support processes and providing feedback for improvements.
  5. Communicate effectively during incidents, including SLA breaches and major outages, and coordinate with stakeholders and vendors for resolution.
  6. Coordinate recurring issues to ensure long-term resolution through proper incident and problem management, including escalations.
  7. Collaborate with infrastructure and development teams to analyze root causes of complex issues and outages.
  8. Maintain strong stakeholder management with a focus on continuous service improvement, delivery, and stability.
  9. Drive root cause analysis with technology partners and facilitate RCA reviews.
  10. Work with the Risk team to respond to audit and risk RFIs and manage audit walkthroughs.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree or higher.
  • 10-15 years of experience in banking, with at least 5+ years in a lead role managing mission-critical applications.
  • Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including performance, monitoring, alerting, and maintenance of production environments.
  • Proficiency in automating manual tasks within a core banking ecosystem.
  • Experience in building and maintaining production monitoring and automation solutions.
  • Ability to identify, measure, and report performance trends, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, and improve system performance.
  • Hands-on experience with RDBMS, Unix, cloud platforms, and large banking applications, preferably including mainframe environments.
  • Effective communication skills, especially in an international and remote team setting.
  • Understanding of BAU support, incident/problem management, escalation processes, and risk management including disaster recovery and compliance.
  • Knowledge of CASA, customer master systems, cheque processing, and signature maintenance systems.
  • Technical skills in scripting, programming, DBA/SA, and experience with tools like Elasticsearch, Logstash, Grafana/Kibana, and AppDynamics is advantageous.

Technology Requirements

  • Experience with core banking platforms, including customer and account systems.
  • Proficiency in scripting or programming, DBA/SA skills.
  • Experience in change management, configuration management, and quality control.
  • Knowledge of Linux, mainframe, cloud platforms (Kubernetes, AWS), databases (Postgres, Redis), programming languages (Java, COBOL, etc.), application servers, middleware, and eventing systems.

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, along with a dynamic environment supporting your development and recognizing your achievements.

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