Technology Platform Lead / Program Manager (ED)

OCBC Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Learning & development

Flexible benefits

Job summary

OCBC Group in Singapore seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead a portfolio of IT applications and platform initiatives, aligning business needs with technology roadmaps to deliver secure, scalable services for customers and colleagues.

You will own end-to-end delivery, partner with Architecture and Engineering, manage budgets and governance, and coach teams toward operational excellence in a fast-paced transformation journey.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional technology programs.
• 10+ years as a Program Manager in large-scale IT applications.
• Strong stakeholder management and delivery leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of business and technology outcomes.
• Define architecture and design patterns to drive reusability and scalability.
• Lead platform stability, incident management and operational excellence.
• Manage program budgets, roadmaps and governance across regions.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytics & problem solving

Ownership mindset

Independent work

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.

Who We Are:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. 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. 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.

Role Overview:

As the steward of a suite of application systems, the Program Manager is responsible for ensuring a consistent, seamless, and secure customer experience across all user interfaces and services. This includes driving alignment in technology stack, architecture, and design patterns to maximise reuse, scalability, and speed of delivery. In this capacity, the Platform Lead is fully accountable for: Change: the delivery of new digital capabilities that fuel revenue growth, strengthen customer engagement, and provide cost‑efficient, innovative ways for the bank to serve its customers. Run: the stability, resilience, performance, and operational excellence of the suite of applications under the platform in production. This role is pivotal in shaping the bank’s technology roadmap and ensuring our platforms remain best‑in‑class in a fast‑evolving digital landscape. You will play a critical role in driving the Bank's key initiatives and organizational effectiveness. You will be responsible for developing and implementing large programs and enhancing digital capabilities across the Group Technology Projects that have a significant impact on the organization's risk and financial management capabilities, growth, and success.

Key Responsibilities Change – Delivery of Business & Technology Capabilities

Lead business partnership and prioritisation, working closely with Business to shape and maintain the platform’s book of work in line with the business strategy and technology roadmap. Own end‑to‑end delivery of business and technology outcomes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and maximising value from investment. Influence and align stakeholders across Business, Technology, and regional teams to ensure consistent, scalable, and channel‑aligned solutions. Partner with Architecture and Engineering to define, govern, and enforce architecture and design patterns that drive reusability, scalability, and maintainability across the region. Champion customer and employee experience, collaborating with Product Owners and partners to ensure frictionless journeys and high‑quality internal processes. Establish the right team structure, governance, and operating model, including: Defining roadmaps, resources, budgets, schedules, and delivery milestones Ensuring deliverables comply with bank policies and regulatory requirements Providing timely and transparent updates to project sponsors and senior stakeholders Proactively address delivery obstacles and ensure timely resolution of issues to keep execution on track. Drive continuous improvement to uplift delivery quality, engineering standards, and productivity. Manage stakeholders and communication across multiple functions and geographies.

Run – Platform Stability, Resilience & Operational Excellence

Accountable for the overall health and performance of the platform in production, ensuring stability and availability against committed service levels. Lead incident management, ensuring robust processes for rapid triage, escalation, and timely service restoration. Coordinate cross‑team recovery efforts involving downstream systems, infrastructure, network, and other shared services. Implement proactive monitoring and preventive controls to detect issues early and reduce recurrence whether arising from technology, processes, or operations. Own platform risk management, including vulnerabilities, capacity planning, obsolescence, and operational risks. Bridge Change and Run, leading root‑cause analysis and ensuring learnings feed back into both delivery and operations teams. Plan and manage the platform’s operating budget, ensuring accurate forecasting within the annual Operating Plan.

Risk Management – Governance, Compliance & Controls

Own comprehensive risk management across both project delivery and BAU operations, ensuring timely remediation of vulnerabilities, audit findings, and risk issues. Ensure compliance with Technology Architecture standards, Information Security policies, and all regulatory requirements applicable to the platform. Ensure full adherence to bank policies in day‑to‑day platform management and change execution.

Financial Management – Investment, Cost Efficiency & Resource Optimisation

Manage the platform’s annual technology investment budget, ensuring effective allocation of vendor and internal resources to priority initiatives. Drive cost optimisation across both Change and Run activities by improving efficiency and bring optimization Continuously optimise resource utilisation across regional teams and technology domains.

People Leadership – Capability Building & Engagement

Lead and develop the Project Managers, Project teams supporting the platform, including capacity planning, upskilling and hiring. Collaborate across job families and regional teams to plan, hire, and develop capabilities required to meet current and future business demand. Provide leadership and coaching to both direct and matrixed team members, ensuring clear direction, performance support, and growth opportunities. Own the platform’s employee engagement outcomes, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

Able to work independently with minimum supervision Ability to adapt, strong team player, self-driven and results-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving capability Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurship spirit to get things done, result oriented and driven to succeed Relevant experience of cross-functional technology programs supporting Branch, ATM, Risk, Finance business units. Relevant experience of more than 10 years as a Program Manager in large-scale IT applications programs Thought leadership in conceptualizing ideas and translating them into tangible outcomes and benefits People leadership to manage a team and influence stakeholders on the digital transformation journey

What we offer:

Competitive 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.

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.