VP, Application Developer, Institutional Banking Group Technology, Group Technology

China, Beijing Branch; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Asia Hub in Singapore seeks an senior technology architect to lead the design and delivery of an ecosystem platform. You will partner with applications teams and other architects to define architecture, patterns, and secure microservices/APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment.

You will guide engineers, establish best practices, and drive transformation from monoliths to scalable cloud-native solutions while aligning with enterprise architecture principles.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing large scale IAM, integration, CD, TDD and pair programming.
• Knowledge of banking platforms, payments systems and regulatory constraints.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, network security and token management.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 / SAML 2.0 protocols.
• Experience with Cloud platforms and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive the build out of capabilities on the Ecosystem Platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with applications teams and architects to raise engineering quality.
• Direct architecture and development teams with a hands-on approach.
• Improve engineering practices and introduce new ones as needed.
• Create strategy and guidelines to improve software delivery quality.
• Define and own software standards, patterns, and agile practices.
• Project manage and allocate development capacity to meet schedules.
• Ensure architecture is implemented using agreed patterns with teams.
• Perform POCs and develop patterns and frameworks.
• Provide fit-for-purpose solutions with architects and domain experts.
• Transform requirements into architecture and blueprints for cloud-native solutions.
• Design solutions around microservices and APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment.
• Lead technical direction and gain buy-in from development teams.
• Plan migration from on-prem to cloud-based platforms.
• Align solution architecture with enterprise roadmaps and EA principles.

Skills

IAM

Cloud & DevOps

Cybersecurity

OAuth 2.0

SAML 2.0

Java/J2EE

Spring Framework

Agile

Education

AWS Certification

Java/J2EE Certification

Scrum Certification

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Cloud Foundry

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the build out of the capabilities on the Ecosystem Platform roadmap.
• Able to work closely with the applications teams and other architects to drive high quality application development, raising the bar of engineering practices and value adding to the technical delivery.
• Directing the architecture and development teams using a hands-on approach
• Establishing and owning engineering practice by improving current practices and coming up new practices were ever required
• Create strategy, guidelines to improve software development, delivery with world-class quality outcomes
• Define and own software standards, patterns, methodologies and practices including software quality, execution of agile software delivery
• Able to project manage and allocated development capacity to completing scheduled task
• Ensure agreed architecture is implemented by development team using agreed on patterns with engineering teams and architects
• Perform POC's and come up with patterns and frameworks
• Be part of team of architects and domain experts to provide fit for purpose solutions
• Transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created. Conversion that is based on several factors: previous, successful design patterns, reference architectures and enterprise architecture guidance.
• Understands business functions, construct a solution architecture around Microservices and APIs, and be able to decompose monolith applications into meaningful implementable Microservices and APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, during the SDLC. Get development team's buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented.
• Establish plan and manage the migration from an in-house infrastructure to the cloud-based platform.
• Develop the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles. Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.

Requirements:

• Minimum 10-12 experience in design and build large scale applications in Identity and Access Management, integration, continuous delivery, pair programming and test-driven development
• Experience with AWS / Google Infrastructure Services (EC2, S3, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway) and IAM Security services.
• Experience Cybersecurity observability and SRE Framework.
• Strong understanding of banking platforms, payments systems, transaction systems, and regulatory constraints
• Deep knowledge of cybersecurity principles, Network security, Authentication, Authorization, Digital Token, Entitlement, Session Management, Digital/Hard Token / FIDO Token management functions, Cryptography, Passkeys, Mobile Security and application security.
• Good understanding of OAuth 2.0 / SAML 2.0 protocols
• Certification in AWS, Java, J2EE, Scrum is an added advantage.
• Experience with Cloud Foundry Platform and Development and Deployment.
• Certification in AWS, Java, J2EE, Scrum is an added advantage
• Experience creating delivery capability from the ground up and building talented teams including the balance of onshore and offshore model
• Good understanding of OAuth 2.0 / SAML 2.0 protocols
• Data modelling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Familiar with Java Spring Framework / Spring Cloud.
• Good understanding of infrastructure components like webservers, app servers, plugins, connection pooling, SLB, firewalls etc.
• Experience in designing and coding scalable Microservices.
• Certification in AWS, Java, J2EE, is an added advantage
• Experience on Agile Development Methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins & bitbucket.

Location: DBS Asia Hub

Job: Technology

Schedule: Regular

Employee Status: Full time