Overview
Technology Architecture
Description
Why Join
As a Data Architect at OCBC, you will be at the forefront of transforming the bank’s data architecture, enabling large-scale machine learning and analytics use cases, and driving the bank’s Digital Transformation. You will have the opportunity to work on a multi-year roadmap to modernize the OCBC data architecture, collaborating with business and technology leads, application architects, data science, and data engineering teams across the bank. This is a unique chance to make a significant impact on the bank’s future and build a career as a Subject Matter Expert in data architecture.
How you succeed
To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of data architecture and its role in driving business outcomes. You will need to be able to collaborate with stakeholders across the group to ensure buy-in on strategic data initiatives and define data platform processes and best practices. You will also need to be a strong communicator and influencer, able to consult and influence digital application teams and provide training and share best practices across teams.
What you do
- Contribute to the roadmap to transform data architecture focusing on scalability, performance, and flexibility
- Maintain data architecture framework, standards, and principles
- Contribute to reference architecture and architectural designs solution context diagram and conceptual data model
- 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
- Provide training and share best practices across teams regarding data architecture design and solution implementation
- Develop and apply industry best practice technology, design, and methodology approaches to design bank’s data architecture
Who you work with
The Data Architect role is part of the Data Architecture team in OCBC Group Operations and Technology (GO&T) division. You will work closely with data engineering teams, Business Analysts, digital application teams, and other stakeholders across the bank to enable large-scale machine learning and analytics use cases.
Qualifications
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
- 5-8 years of experience in designing and building high-performance data architectures
- Experience in cloud-based data architecture and data governance is an advantage
- Experience in designing data architectures that support real-time and batch use-cases
- Knowledge of data governance principles and standards
- Experience in implementing data governance and data quality standards
- Experience in cloud-based data architecture and data governance
- Familiarity with DevOps / DataOps / MLOps concepts
- 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
- Knowledge of container-based big data architectures and Kubernetes
- Experience with big data technologies (Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark)
- Expertise in RDBMS (Teradata/Oracle, PostgreSQL, Vertica, etc), PL/SQL, data modeling & ETL/ELT
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to deliver technology solutions that enable tangible business benefits
- TOGAF/DAMA certification is an advantage
Who we are
Singapore’s longest established bank, we’ve been helping people and businesses get what they want from life 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. Embracing technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organization. But for all that change, our purpose remains: to enable people and communities to realize their aspirations.
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. Equal opportunity. Fair employment. Selection based on ability and fit with our culture and values. Your wellbeing, growth, and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
Primary Location
: Singapore
Job
: Information Technology
Organization
: Technology Architecture
Schedule
: Permanent
Job Posting
: 19-Mar-2025, 6:17:29 AM
About OCBC Bank
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.
