Job Posting Title VP, Engineering Lead – Full Stack & QA Automation (Loan Origination)

OCBC Bank; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Flexible benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

OCBC Bank is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a regional squad in delivering a robust Loan Origination platform. You will oversee end-to-end delivery of credit workflows, onboarding, and lending automation, using Java and API-driven architectures, while ensuring strong quality, security, and regulatory alignment.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, test automation, and a commitment to audit readiness within a highly regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of software engineering experience, banking/financial services preferred.
• 2-5 years of experience leading teams of 12-20 members.
• Experience delivering Loan Origination Systems or digital lending platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a regional squad of 12-20 engineers, coaching and delivering Loan Origination solutions end-to-end.
• Drive API-driven architectures, automation, and testing practices across the squad.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab for secure deployments.

Skills

Java

Loan Origination

Team leadership

CI/CD

MAS TRM

Tools

Kibana

SQL

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.

Why Join Join a role where you will deliver a secure, scalable, and compliant Loan Origination platform that drives digital lending transformation in a highly regulated banking environment. You will shape credit workflows, onboarding, and lending automation while leveraging AI technologies (including MCP). This is an opportunity to influence architecture and engineering standards at scale, build a high-performing regional squad, and collaborate closely with business, credit risk, and compliance stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with MAS TRM and secure engineering practices.

How You Succeed

You succeed by delivering robust, compliant, and scalable systems aligned with MAS regulations and internal risk controls. You build a strong engineering and quality culture with high automation and low defect rates, while effectively balancing speed and governance. You foster a high-performing, engaged team and maintain strong audit readiness. You establish yourself as a trusted partner to business, credit risk, and compliance stakeholders while leveraging AI and automation to improve efficiency and quality.

What You Do

You lead a regional squad of 12-20 engineers, providing coaching and mentorship while driving end-to-end delivery of Loan Origination solutions, including compliance screening, credit assessment, workflow orchestration, and document management. You provide hands-on technical leadership using Java and API-driven architectures, while driving automation and testing practices across the squad. You ensure system reliability through observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana) and implement strong quality engineering practices. You drive CI/CD practices (Jenkins, GitLab) to enable controlled and secure deployments with integrated testing and security checks. You manage data integrity through SQL and database validation, and leverage AI technologies to enhance development efficiency, automation, and intelligent lending capabilities. You collaborate closely with business, operations, and regulatory stakeholders while ensuring proper documentation, communication, and audit traceability.

Who You Are

• 8-12 years of experience in software engineering (banking/financial services preferred)
• 2-5 years of experience leading teams of 12-20 members
• Experience delivering Loan Origination Systems or digital lending platforms

Core Skills (Must-Have)

• Strong Java development expertise
• Solid experience in the Loan Origination / lending domain
• Proven team leadership and delivery ownership
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar)
• Familiarity with MAS TRM guidelines and regulatory environments

Preferred Skills (Good-to-Have)

• Experience with test automation tools: ACCELQ / Playwright / Selenium
• Experience with AI technologies (MCP or similar)
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Kibana, logging platforms)

Strengths

• Strong understanding of credit workflows and lending processes
• Experience integrating with core banking systems, credit bureaus, and KYC/AML platforms
• Good knowledge of data governance, risk controls, and compliance practices
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
• High level of ownership, accountability, and governance mindset

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.

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.

Let’s build the bank we need for the future we want. Find the best version of yourself in a friendly, supportive team. 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.

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.