Overview

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

Join OCBC’s Group Information Security & Digital Risk Management team and play a key role in safeguarding the Bank’s data and digital ecosystem. This role combines data engineering leadership with information risk awareness, enabling the organisation to harness data securely while strengthening resilience against information risks.

You will partner closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data platforms and drive data‑driven information risk insights and initiatives across the Group.

How you succeed

You are a strong data engineering practitioner who provides technical leadership and direction, ensuring solutions are well-architected, scalable, and secure.

Success in this role requires:

  • Ability to lead end-to-end data engineering design and solutioning.

  • Good working knowledge of technology and information risk principles.

  • Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and initiatives.

  • Strong ability to influence stakeholders and guide engineering outcomes.

What you do

Data Engineering Leadership

  • Provide technical leadership on architecture, design, and implementation of data solutions.

  • Lead the design of enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and architecture.

  • Guide development of data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for structured and unstructured data.

  • Establish and enforce standards for data modelling, pipeline reliability, and solution quality.

  • Advise on real-time and batch data processing approaches (e.g. Kafka).

  • Drive automation, optimisation, and continuous improvement of data workflows.

  • Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for data engineering within the team.

Collaboration & Delivery Enablement

  • Partner with business and risk stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.

  • Provide architectural guidance to ensure delivery aligns with defined standards and objectives.

  • Enable teams to deliver independently while maintaining consistency in design and approach.

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Information Security & Digital Risk Management

  • Drive data‑driven information risk initiatives, including monitoring, analytics, and control enhancements.

  • Leverage data platforms to generate information risk insights and reporting for management decision-making.

  • Embed secure-by-design principles into data engineering practices.

  • Support risk governance, monitoring, and control enhancement, including regulatory compliance.

Who you are

Experience

  • 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platforms, and Data Solutions.

  • Proven experience acting as a technical lead or senior engineer providing guidance to teams.

  • Experience in financial services or regulated environments preferred.

Technical Skills

  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and data engineering concepts.

  • Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g. Talend, DBT, Dagster).

  • Knowledge of big data platforms (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Hive).

  • Experience in data streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka).

  • Strong understanding of data modelling, transformation, and pipeline design.

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Information Risk Knowledge

  • Good understanding of technology, information, and data risk concepts.

  • Awareness of data security controls (e.g. access control, encryption, data governance).

  • Familiarity with MAS Tech Risk Management Guidelines or regional regulatory requirements.

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Leadership & Competencies

  • Ability to provide technical leadership through expertise and influence.

  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

  • Analytical, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset.

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.

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About

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 now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. 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 and its subsidiaries offer 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 key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang.

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.

OCBC's 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 largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.