Investment Technology Lead – Front Office Architecture (PMS/OMS, SimCorp)

Flare Consulting; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Flare Consulting is seeking a seasoned Technical Lead to own the target-state architecture for a front-office transformation. You will drive design decisions, lead integration work with vendors and partners, and act as the technical voice across platforms from PMS to trading systems.

You will map current workflows, define future requirements, and shape the multi-year investment technology roadmap while ensuring high performance, security and resilience across cloud data platforms like Snowflake.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology, with 5+ years in buy-side investment technology.
• Current or recent role as Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Lead Engineer or Investment Technology Lead.
• Hands-on delivery of at least one front-office platform implementation or migration (PMS/OMS/EMS) in a design-owning role.
• Clear understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle: research, portfolio management, order management, pre-trade compliance, trading, risk, performance and downstream ops.
• Proven design of complex integrations and data flows across multiple investment platforms.
• Experience working with senior investment and technology stakeholders and managing vendors/integrators/consultants.
• Eligible to work in Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Map current workflows and define future-state requirements.
• Own the solution architecture across PM, OMS, execution, compliance, risk, performance and market data platforms.
• Define the target-state architecture and migration path from legacy platforms.
• Design integrations: APIs, event-driven patterns, data pipelines and cloud services.
• Set data ownership, lineage, reconciliation and control standards for critical data domains.
• Collaborate with data engineering on scalable Snowflake and cloud solutions.
• Define non-functional requirements: performance, availability, security, resilience, observability.
• Lead technical design reviews and guide engineering, data, integration and testing teams.
• Challenge vendor designs and enforce technical milestones and standards.
• Contribute to platform selection, build-vs-buy decisions and technology roadmap.
• Promote CI/CD, automated testing, cybersecurity and operational resilience.

Skills

Investment tech

Solution architecture

Technical leadership

APIs

Data integration

Vendor management

Front-office platforms

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Job description

The role

You will be the technical lead for the front-office transformation programme. You will own the target-state architecture, lead solution design and integration decisions, and act as the client's technical voice with platform vendors and implementation partners.

This is a hands-on design leadership role. It is not a project management or delivery coordination role.

What you will do

• Work with portfolio managers, traders, research, risk and investment operations to map current workflows and define future-state requirements
• Own the solution architecture across portfolio management, order management, execution, compliance, risk, performance and market data platforms
• Define the target-state architecture and the migration path from legacy platforms
• Design integrations: APIs, event-driven patterns, file interfaces, data pipelines and cloud integration services
• Set data ownership, lineage, reconciliation and control standards for security master, instrument, position, transaction, pricing, benchmark and reference data
• Work with data engineering teams on scalable solutions using Snowflake and cloud platforms
• Define non-functional requirements: performance, availability, security, resilience, observability and disaster recovery
• Lead technical design reviews and give hands-on guidance to engineering, data, integration and testing teams
• Challenge vendor and system integrator designs, and hold partners to technical standards and milestones
• Contribute to platform selection, build-versus-buy decisions and the multi-year investment technology roadmap
• Promote engineering standards across CI/CD, automated testing, cybersecurity and operational resilience

What you must have

1. 12+ years in technology, with at least 5 years in buy-side investment technology (asset manager, sovereign or pension fund, insurer investment arm, or a vendor or consultancy serving them)
2. Current or recent role as Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Lead Engineer or Investment Technology Lead
3. Hands-on delivery of at least one front-office platform implementation or migration (PMS, OMS, EMS or trading platform), in a design-owning role
4. Clear understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle: research, portfolio management, order management, pre-trade compliance, trading, risk, performance and downstream operations
5. Proven design of complex integrations and data flows across multiple investment platforms
6. Experience working directly with senior investment and technology stakeholders, and managing vendors, integrators and consultants
7. Eligible to work in Singapore

Strongly preferred

• Hands-on experience with SimCorp Dimension and/or FlexTrade
• Bloomberg investment and market data solutions (e.g. AIM, TOMS, B-PIPE, Data License)
• Other OMS/EMS platforms such as Charles River, Aladdin, Eze or LSEG
• Electronic trading platforms and broker connectivity (FIX)
• Snowflake and public cloud (AWS or Azure) data platforms

This role is not a fit if

• Your experience is mainly project or programme management, without owning technical design
• Your background is retail banking, payments or general enterprise IT, with no front-office investment exposure
• You have worked only on back-office, fund accounting or settlements systems
• Your trading technology experience is sell-side only, with no portfolio management or buy-side workflow exposure