Financial Services Applications Lead - Strategy & Delivery

Ethos BeathChapman; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos BeathChapman is seeking an Applications Manager (Financial Services) to own a critical portfolio of business applications. You will lead an experienced team responsible for delivery, production support, and ongoing modernization, guiding architectural and operational decisions with a strong, hands-off coding focus.

The role requires a proven track record in live production, major incident management, and build-versus-buy strategies, with preferred experience in securities or capital

Qualifications

• Experience leading an applications team in a live production environment.
• Strong development background with leadership focus.
• Deep understanding of software engineering, application change delivery and production support.
• Proven experience leading major incidents and root cause analysis.
• Experience owning a broad application portfolio including modernization and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Financial services experience, securities/capital markets knowledge is highly advantageous, especially front-to-back trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team responsible for keeping a portfolio of core business applications reliable, supported, and fit for change
• Own the application portfolio and shape what is enhanced, modernised, replaced, built internally, or sourced externally
• Lead and develop the applications team, setting clear expectations and maintaining accountability across delivery and support
• Guide the team on sound development practices and practical technical decisions
• Oversee both enhancement work and day-to-day production support across in-house and outsourced resources
• Take ownership of major incidents and recurring problems, driving root cause analysis through to resolution
• Oversee application service quality, resilience, release and change governance, and ongoing improvement
• Work with business users to turn operational needs into workable application solutions and manage priorities
• Coordinate external developers, application vendors, and support partners to ensure delivery quality and accountability
• Bring structure, ownership, and technical judgement to how the application environment is run and evolved

Skills

Team leadership

Production support

Incident management

Change governance

Software development background

Financial services domain

Job description

Ethos BeathChapman is seeking an Applications Manager (Financial Services) to own a critical portfolio of business applications. You will lead an experienced team responsible for delivery, production support, and ongoing modernization, guiding architectural and operational decisions with a strong, hands-off coding focus.

The role requires a proven track record in live production, major incident management, and build-versus-buy strategies, with preferred experience in securities or capital