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Who we are

OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with Aa1 by Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

OCBC is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets. The Group offers a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services.

OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its 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. Its insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

The Group’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 410 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions.

Summary:

The Data Architect role is part of Data Architecture team in OCBC Group Technology Architecture, focusing
on the transformation the existing data architecture and build of the next generation data platform across OCBC Group to support the bank's Digital Transformation.

Responsibilities:

Contribute and support the roadmap to transform data architecture focusing on scalability, performance and flexibility throughout the entire data life cycle
(ingestion, storage and consumption).
Maintain data architecture framework, standards and principles including modeling, metadata, security, master and reference data
Contribute and support reference architecture as a set of patterns based on use cases that can leveraged to create and improve data systems for current and future needs.
Take a lead in architectural designs solution context diagram and conceptual
data model to optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and aligns to the delivered architecture.
Work closely with data engineering team, Business Analysts and support the design aligning with the Bank's data architecture standards and principles
Consult and influence digital application teams regarding solutions. Collaborate with other staff to design and implement effective technology solutions, while using innovative business and technology processes to identify and implement improvement initiatives, eliminate redundancies, and maximize the reuse of data.
Provide training and share best practices across teams regarding data architecture design and solution implementation including review and quality assurance.
8. Develop and apply industry best practice technology, design and methodology approaches to design bank's architecture. Research and recommend new emerging technologies, techniques and tools that will add value to the organization.
Support operationally and provide architecture direction, input and governance into O &T groups including design, architecture and development for the data platform This includes remediation, testing, data migration, system cutover, decommissioning and platform roadmaps.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
3-5 years of experience in designing and building high performance resilient data architectures. Understanding of how data architecture fits with other architecture disciplines
At least 2 years of experience in implementing data governance, standards and principles. Data Architecture / Governance design on the Cloud is an advantage in terms of good understanding of cloud methodologies and experience with AWS or GCP tool suites and services
Strong Experience with traditional data technologies (ODS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse. Data Lakehouse).
Experience in designing data patterns to support micro-service based application architecture
Exposure in designing data patterns to support event driven micro-service based application architecture
Hands on experience on DevOps / DataOps / MLOps concepts
Expertise in RDBMS (Teradata/Oracle, PostgreSQL, Vertica etc), PL/SQL, data modeling & ETL/ELT, Snowflake, SingleStore or similar platforms

Attractive remuneration package will be offered to the right candidate. Please apply with full resume stating present & expected salary and contact phone number to The Human Resources Manager, 2/F, 161 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong . Please quote the reference.

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