United Overseas Bank
1 week ago
SVP of Development - United Overseas Bank
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Company information
- Company
- United Overseas Bank
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 1 week ago
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 controls, 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.
• Compliance with regulatory and audit requirements with no major findings.
• Improved operational efficiency and effectiveness of AML investigations and case management processes.
• Successful management of vendors, resources, and technology investments.
• Strong employee engagement, capability development, and talent retention across the team.
Job Requirements
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
2. Minimum 12 years of hands-on experience in the design, development, delivery, and support of enterprise workflow and case management platforms, with significant leadership responsibilities.
3. Proven experience leading large-scale technology teams and managing complex application portfolios within banking, financial services, or highly regulated industries.
4. Strong experience in platform architecture, solution evaluation, technology strategy, and enterprise application design.
5. Demonstrated experience delivering mission-critical, highly available, and scalable workflow-based applications supporting regulatory and operational processes.
6. Preferably with extensive hands-on experience with:
o OpenText AppWorks Platform
o OpenText OTDS
o OpenText Magellan Business Intelligence & Reporting
o Object Design and Modelling
o DevOps and CI/CD toolsets
o Microsoft SQL Server
7. Strong understanding of AML, Financial Crime Compliance, investigation workflows, case management processes, and regulatory reporting requirements.
8. Experience implementing and integrating third-party products, enterprise platforms, and external partner solutions.
9. Familiarity with modern application architecture, APIs, integration frameworks, cloud technologies, and open-source technologies.
10. Proven ability to manage geographically distributed teams across multiple countries and cultures.
11. Strong vendor management experience, including fixed-cost delivery engagements and strategic technology partnerships.
12. Results-oriented leader with a strong track record of delivering complex programmes while balancing business priorities, risk management, and operational stability.
13. Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior business leaders, compliance stakeholders, regulators, auditors, architects, engineers, and external partners.
14. Strong analytical, problem-solving, systems thinking, and decision-making capabilities.
15. Experience working with regulators and external industry participants, including MAS and financial institutions participating in industry-wide AML and financial crime initiatives, will be highly advantageous.
Additional Requirements
Be a Part of the UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.
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Required skills
- engineering
- development
- quality standards
- operational efficiency
- communication skills
- analytical skills
- security
- resource management
- software development
- financial services
- compliance requirements
- information technology
- qualifications
- projects
- automation
- continuous improvement
- software engineering
- risk management
- testing
- auditors
- cloud technologies
- apis
- devops
- data
- problem-solving skills
- it support
- infrastructure
- architects
- bachelor's degree
- technical leadership
- strategic leadership
- ci/cd pipelines
- investigation
- computer science
- regulatory compliance
- mas
- stakeholder management
- vendor management
- business growth
- implementation
- application security
- recruitment process
- banking
- application lifecycle management
- regulatory requirements
- platform architecture
- case management
- assistance
- system integration
- job requirements
- operational support
- employee engagement
- innovative solutions
- requirements analysis
- internal audit
- operational stability
- integration patterns
- release management
- banking operations
- project delivery
- compliance management
- anti-money laundering
- transaction monitoring
- singapore
- malaysia
- thailand
- security management
- microsoft sql server
- system development
- audit management
- enterprise architecture
- external partners
- business requirements
- solution design
- china
- engineers
- online application
- capability development
- leadership responsibilities
- equal opportunity employer
- technology solutions
- asean
- operational processes
- operational effectiveness
- cost-effective delivery
- regulators
- enterprise data platforms
- systems thinking
- integration frameworks
- governance frameworks
- engineering excellence
- svp
- customer onboarding
- sdm
- technology strategy
- operational controls
- permanent staff
- business needs
- platform optimization
- regulatory obligations
- business stakeholders
- technology investments
- accommodations
- business priorities
- project initiation
- stakeholder satisfaction
- delivery oversight
- cosmic
- indonesia
- vietnam
- third-party products
- audit compliance
- open-source technologies
- enterprise platforms
- delivery best practices
- transaction volumes
- financial crime compliance
- sanctions screening
- results-oriented leader
- post-production support
- mission-critical applications
- gto
- regulatory reporting requirements
- operational requirements
- distributed team
- strategic technology partnerships
- solution evaluation
- talent retention
- technical solution architecture
- strategic roadmap
- approved budgets
- case management platforms
- regulatory processes
- technology delivery
- hands-on guidance
- sustainable technology solutions
- vendor management experience
- scalable platform
- united overseas bank
- uob
- agile delivery practices
- aml workflow
- enterprise application design
- service disruptions
- enterprise workflow platforms
- complex programmes
- geographically distributed teams
- production rollout
- race discrimination
- color discrimination
- religion discrimination
- gender discrimination
- sexual orientation discrimination
- age discrimination
- aml operations
- decision-making capabilities
- modern application architecture
- secure platform
- senior business leaders
- object modelling
- highly regulated industries
- compliance stakeholders
- upstream systems
- downstream systems
- investigation processes
- production platform
- concurrent initiatives
- workflow architecture
- technology direction
- resilient platform
- group technology and operations
- highly available platform
- gmet shared platforms
- opentext appworks
- enhancement releases
- contract resources
- third-party product providers
- system integration partners
- financial crime teams
- external financial institutions
- financial crime collaboration programmes
- system development methodology
- major findings
- case management processes
- large-scale technology teams
- complex application portfolios
- opentext otds
- opentext magellan business intelligence & reporting
- ci/cd toolsets
- external partner solutions
- fixed-cost delivery engagements
- industry-wide aml initiatives
- aml workflow case management
- head of workflow systems
- business line 1
- compliance line 2
- aml programme objectives
- aml application portfolio
- fixed-cost vendor engagements
- high-quality project delivery
- scalable workflow-based applications
- object design
- aml understanding
- financial crime compliance understanding
- investigation workflow understanding
- case management process understanding
- external industry participants
- financial crime initiatives
- physical disability discrimination
- mental disability discrimination
- non-merit factors
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