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.
Solution Architect – Data & AI
Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that shapes the future of banking technology. As a Solution Architect (Data & AI) 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 end‑to‑end solution architecture for data, analytics, and AI/ML use cases across the bank—covering ingestion, storage, processing, governance, MLOps, and model serving—while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, standards, and roadmaps. Partner with data engineering, platform, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and well‑governed data/AI solutions that meet business outcomes.
What you do
• 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 . Create detailed design artefacts (e.g. component diagram, sequence diagram, deployment model etc) for the initiatives with end-to-end solutions spanning across multiple integrated systems and leveraging on data & AI
• Define and evolve data/AI patterns. Develop and update architecture design patterns (e.g., data lakehouse, medallion architecture, event streaming, feature store, model serving, prompt orchestration patterns), and drive adoption across teams.
• Deep Domain Expertise with Agility . Possess in-depth knowledge of one / multiple functional domains (e.g., Payments, Core Banking, Wealth, Trade, Treasury) and demonstrate ability to quickly acquire new domain expertise.
• 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 . Provide hands‑on guidance 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).
• Ensure Governance & risk controls in design . Embed data security, privacy, and responsible AI controls (e.g., data masking/tokenization, lineage, model risk controls, bias testing, monitoring), and raise/manage deviations via architecture
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 sanctions screening, document digitization, and workflow engines.
• 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.
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.
