SVP Technical Development Lead (AML), GMET

United Overseas Bank; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

United Overseas Bank is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the AML Workflow Platform, guiding strategy, architecture, and delivery across Singapore and Malaysia. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with Compliance, Security, and operations teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant AML processes.

The role requires strategic vision, hands-on leadership, and a track record of delivering complex technology platforms in financial crime and compliance domains.

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing the strategic roadmap for the AML Workflow Case Management platform in alignment with the Bank's Financial Crime Compliance and AML programme objectives.
• Leading multiple concurrent initiatives, projects, and enhancement releases to meet evolving business, compliance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Delivering technology solutions and enhancements on time, within budget, and in accordance with agreed business requirements and quality standards.
• Ensuring the platform remains highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient to support increasing transaction volumes, regulatory obligations, and business growth.
• Managing all risk, security, audit, and compliance aspects of the AML application portfolio.
• Providing end-to-end accountability for application lifecycle management, covering project initiation, requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, production rollout, and post-production support.
• Leading and developing a distributed team consisting of approximately 10 permanent staff across Singapore and Malaysia, together with approximately 20 contract resources across Singapore, Malaysia, and India.
• Driving engineering excellence and establishing delivery best practices across development, testing, DevOps, release management, and operational support functions.
• Defining and governing technical solution architecture in close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and software engineering teams.
• Managing fixed-cost vendor engagements, third-party product providers, and system integration partners to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality project delivery.
• Providing 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 control, 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.

Job description

Company: 1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in ASEAN with a global network in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Operating through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, we have a global network of about 430 branches and offices in 19 markets. At the heart of UOB is our culture, shaped by the UOB Way and anchored on our four values - Honourable, Enterprising, United and Committed. For more than 90 years, these values have guided how we do right by our customers, collaborate with one another and create long-term value for the communities we operate in. As One Bank, we are committed to helping our colleagues build sustainable careers grounded in purpose, supported by strong values, and enriched with meaningful opportunities to grow.

Job Description

About the Department

Group Technology and Operations (GTO) provides software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations. We have centralized and standardized technology capabilities in Singapore, creating a global operating model that supports our regional subsidiaries and branches worldwide. We operate and support 19 countries through this architecture, providing a secure, scalable, and flexible banking infrastructure.

The AML Workflow team within GMET Shared Platforms is responsible for all aspects of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Workflow Case Management platform built on the OpenText AppWorks ecosystem. Reporting to the Head of Workflow Systems, the Senior Vice President will provide strategic leadership, technology direction, and delivery oversight for the AML workflow platform supporting both Business Line 1 and Compliance Line 2 investigation and case management activities across the Group.

The successful candidate will be responsible for :

1. Defining and executing the strategic roadmap for the AML Workflow Case Management platform in alignment with the Bank's Financial Crime Compliance and AML programme objectives.
2. Leading multiple concurrent initiatives, projects, and enhancement releases to meet evolving business, compliance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
3. Delivering technology solutions and enhancements on time, within budget, and in accordance with agreed business requirements and quality standards.
4. Ensuring the platform remains highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient to support increasing transaction volumes, regulatory obligations, and business growth.
5. Managing all risk, security, audit, and compliance aspects of the AML application portfolio.
6. Providing end-to-end accountability for application lifecycle management, covering project initiation, requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, production rollout, and post-production support.
7. Leading and developing a distributed team consisting of approximately 10 permanent staff across Singapore and Malaysia, together with approximately 20 contract resources across Singapore, Malaysia, and India.
8. Driving engineering excellence and establishing delivery best practices across development, testing, DevOps, release management, and operational support functions.
9. Defining and governing technical solution architecture in close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and software engineering teams.
10. Managing fixed-cost vendor engagements, third-party product providers, and system integration partners to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality project delivery.
11. Providing technical leadership and hands-on guidance on OpenText AppWorks, workflow architecture, integration patterns, application security, and platform optimization.
12. Partnering closely with AML Operations, Compliance, Financial Crime teams, and other business stakeholders to understand requirements and develop innovative, sustainable technology solutions.
13. 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.
14. Driving continuous improvement initiatives across agile delivery practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, governance frameworks, operational control, and the Bank's System Development Methodology (SDM).
15. Ensuring the successful integration of AML workflow capabilities with upstream and downstream systems, including customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and enterprise data platforms.

Key Success Measures

The role will be measured against the following outcomes:

• Delivery of all projects and enhancements on time and within approved budgets.
• Fulfilment of business and compliance requirements with high stakeholder satisfaction.
• Stable and highly available production platform with minimal service disruptions.
• Compl