VP of Application Engineering - OCBC

OCBC (Singapore); Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OCBC Bank is seeking an experienced Application Support Engineer for Wealth Management, supporting global user queries and production incidents. You will ensure production stability, collaborate with Risk/Regulatory & Finance teams, and work with development to implement changes.

The role emphasizes L1/L2 support, incident management, and on-call coverage. Candidates should have 5+ years in finance applications and strong Java/.NET/SAS skills.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 5+ years of work experience in Credit Risk, Regulation, & Finance applications. Microservices technologies with Banking and Financial services organizations.
• Hands-on experience for Java/J2EE, Microsoft .Net, SAS technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to front or back-office operations business process and systems.
• Possess good understanding in front to back flows in entire bank process and prior experience in working closely with stakeholders in Risk, Regulatory & Finance.
• Work with internal teams on resolutions to production incidents. Resolve application specific and related processes (functional) issues, production incidents with a focus on Problem Management techniques to establish root cause.
• Collaborate with relevant IT units to reduce level 1/level 2 incidents and contain number of rollbacks.
• Provide on-call/on-site support on a rotational basis and afterwork hours/weekend support as needed, covering application support and application change deployment.
• Contribute to functional and technical specifications for outstanding system bugs or require enhancements. Play key role in prioritization of changes and tracking the delivery.
• Undertake testing of all application bug fixes and enhancements as part of the release management process.
• Work with Technology Architecture team to ensure thorough and adequate system design that Technology operations risks can be minimized, and that application data is appropriately structured, controlled and utilized within the business.
• Prepare application training materials and provide training where necessary. Provide cross training to other members of the Application Services team.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Microsoft .Net

SAS

SQL

Unix/Linux

WebLogic

WebSphere

Microservices

Incident management

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Control-M

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

Application Support Engineer is a technical SME function within Application Services team and provides the delivery of excellent Application Services for users globally for Wealth Management (Private and Premier Banking) in the Group. It includes the responsibility for production stability and continual service improvement for channels applications across client onboarding, compliance related applications, digital, content management and advisory.

How you succeed

The role is required to perform analyze, manage, and respond to queries from the user community, resolving the production incidents, providing oversight on business batches that run daily and supporting the development team with system changes. He/She is expected to ensure proper resolution of production incidents (incident management and problem management) assigned and ensure problems are closely tracked and resolved in timely manner.

What you do

• Provide support to front or back-office operations business process and systems.
  
• Possess good understanding in front to back flows in entire bank process and prior experience in working closely with stakeholders in Risk, Regulatory & Finance.
  
• Work with internal teams on resolutions to production incidents. Resolve application specific and related processes (functional) issues, production incidents with a focus on Problem Management techniques to establish root cause. Make recommendations for permanent resolution of recurring incidents.
  
• Collaborate with relevant IT units to reduce level 1/level 2 incidents and contain number of rollbacks.
  
• Provide on-call/on-site support on a rotational basis and afterwork hours/weekend support as needed, covering application support and application change deployment.
  
• Contribute to functional and technical specifications for outstanding system bugs or require enhancements. Play key role in prioritization of changes and tracking the delivery.
  
• Undertake testing of all application bug fixes and enhancements as part of the release management process.
  
• Work with Technology Architecture team to ensure thorough and adequate system design that Technology operations risks can be minimized, and that application data is appropriately structured, controlled and utilized within the business.
  
• Prepare application training materials and provide training where necessary. Provide cross training to other members of the Application Services team.
  

Who you are

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
  
• 5+ years of work experience in Credit Risk, Regulation, & Finance applications. Microservices technologies with Banking and Financial services organizations.
  
• Hands-on experience for Java/J2EE, Microsoft .Net, SAS technologies.
  
• Technically sound in database (SQLServer/Oracle/PostgreSQL), operational systems (UNIX/LINUX/Windows Server), batch management systems (Control-M), JEE Application Servers (Weblogic/JBoss/WebSphere) and Microservices.
  
• Good understanding of technology security, cryptography, certificates, and cyber defense.
  
• Basic knowledge of Wealth Management product and business process.
  
• Experience in implementation or supporting Production Support initiatives for financial services organizations.
  
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, interpersonal, written) and demonstrable analytical skills.
  
• Experience in Application support and user query management (L1/L2). L3 Development skills would be an advantage.
  
• Ability to manage third party vendors and measure vendor performance against SLA.
  
• Deep-dive problem solving skills and zero-defect mind-set.
  

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.