Solution Architect – Treasury and Securities (VP)
ocbc · OCBC Singapore ·
- Seniority
- C level
- Category
- Architecture
ocbc · OCBC Singapore ·
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.
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Solution Architect – Treasury and Securities (VP)
Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that shapes the future of banking technology. As a Technology Architecture professional at OCBC, you'll play a key role in designing and implementing innovative solutions that transform the way we deliver financial services. You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented individuals, and develop your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.
How you succeed
Lead front‑to‑back architecture for Treasury and Securities across front office, risk, operations, finance/ledger, and digital asset businesses. This includes FX, MM, fixed income, derivatives, ALM, funding & liquidity, hedge accounting, and securities trading (equities, bonds, structured products). Architect resilient, low‑latency, high‑integrity platforms integrating pricing, risk, position‑keeping, order management, market connectivity, confirmations/settlements, collateral, clearing, custody, and regulatory reporting for both retail and institutional clients.
What you do
Drive Target State Treasury & Securities Architecture
Define and deliver the bank’s target state architecture across Treasury and Securities, covering trade capture, order/execution workflows, pricing services, market data ingestion, risk analytics, settlement, clearing, custody, and integration with core banking, finance, and payments.
Establish reference architectures for low latency trading channels, exchange connectivity, FIX/FAST protocols, market gateways, and STP processing for retail and institutional clients.
Align Solution Design with Enterprise Strategy
Demonstrate strong understanding of architecture strategy and roadmap, ensuring solution designs consistently align with enterprise blueprints, guidelines, roadmap and guiding principles.
Deliver Comprehensive Solutions Design Artefacts
Produce detailed solution artefacts (trade & market‑data models, sequence diagrams, deployment topologies, resilience/run‑books, NFRs) across application, data, and infra.
Define and evolve architecture and integration patterns for market data, pricing/risk (real time/batch), P&L explain, confirmations/settlements, collateral/margin, limits/controls, and accounting/GL.
Deep Domain Expertise with Agility
Possess in-depth knowledge of Treasury domain expertise across one or more: Treasury asset classes: FX, MM, fixed income, derivatives. Pricing, analytics, and valuation services. Position management and inventory optimization. Market & liquidity risk (VaR/ES, Greeks, IRRBB, LCR/NSFR). ALM/FTP and hedge accounting. Securities trading: equities, fixed income, structured products, ETFs. Retail & institutional low latency trading channels and order flows. Post trade processing: clearing, custody, settlement (e.g., SWIFT, DvP, CCPs, CSDs). Trade reporting and regulatory obligations (MiFID, MAS, EMIR, etc.)
Collaborate and Govern Effectively
Identify and raise architecture deviations and manage tech debt resolutions to Architecture / Platforms forums for timely resolution and alignment.
Hands-On Engagement with Delivery Teams and Users
Hands on engagement with trading, risk, operations, and finance stakeholders; as well as
across delivery, partnering closely with engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to ensure solutions adhere to design and best practices (data quality, observability, resiliency, cost)
Who you are
Preferably 7+ years in enterprise / solutions architecture and cloud-native technologies such as microservices, Kubernetes, kafka/MQ, redis, databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle).
Strong knowledge of cloud architecture and infrastructure setup.
Experience with low‑latency and high‑reliability systems, market‑data integration, and FO‑to‑BO/STP processing; familiarity with Treasury vendor platforms is a plus. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels.
Proven ability to define new architectures, lead projects independently, and drive adoption of best practices.
Strong analytical and decision-making skills; proactive and resourceful.
Experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Payments, Core Banking domains is an advantage.
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.