Senior VP, AML Platform & Tech Delivery Lead

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB); Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd in Singapore seeks a Senior Vice President to lead the AML Workflow Case Management platform, guiding strategic direction and delivering scalable, compliant technology across multiple regions.

You will manage a global delivery team, drive engineering excellence, and collaborate with Compliance, AML Operations, and regulatory partners to ensure robust, secure, and highly available systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 12 years of hands-on experience in the design, development, delivery, and support of enterprise workflow and case management platforms, with significant leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience leading large-scale technology teams and managing complex application portfolios within banking, financial services, or highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the AML Workflow Case Management platform in alignment with the Bank's Financial Crime Compliance and AML programme objectives.
• Lead multiple concurrent initiatives, projects, and enhancement releases to meet evolving business, compliance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Deliver technology solutions and enhancements on time, within budget, and in accordance with agreed business requirements and quality standards.
• Ensure the platform remains highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient to support increasing transaction volumes, regulatory obligations, and business growth.
• Manage all risk, security, audit, and compliance aspects of the AML application portfolio.
• Provide end-to-end accountability for application lifecycle management, covering project initiation, requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, production rollout, and post-production support.
• Lead and develop a distributed team consisting of approximately 10 permanent staff across Singapore and Malaysia, together with approximately 20 contract resources across Singapore, Malaysia, and India.
• Drive engineering excellence and establishing delivery best practices across development, testing, DevOps, release management, and operational support functions.
• Define and govern technical solution architecture in close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Software Engineering teams.
• Manage fixed-cost vendor engagements, third-party product providers, and system integration partners to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality project delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance on OpenText AppWorks, workflow architecture, integration patterns, application security, and platform optimization.
• Partnering closely with AML Operations, Compliance, Financial Crime teams, and other business stakeholders to understand requirements and develop innovative, sustainable technology solutions.
• Representing technology delivery in interactions with internal audit, regulators, and external financial institutions, including support for industry initiatives such as COSMIC and other financial crime collaboration programmes.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across agile delivery practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, governance frameworks, operational controls, and the Bank's System Development Methodology (SDM).
• Ensuring the successful integration of AML workflow capabilities with upstream and downstream systems, including customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and enterprise data platforms.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

AML domain knowledge

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

OpenText AppWorks

OpenText OTDS

OpenText Magellan

CI/CD tools

DevOps tooling

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd in Singapore seeks a Senior Vice President to lead the AML Workflow Case Management platform, guiding strategic direction and delivering scalable, compliant technology across multiple regions.

You will manage a global delivery team, drive engineering excellence, and collaborate with Compliance, AML Operations, and regulatory partners to ensure robust, secure, and highly available systems.