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
Enjoy solving complex problems at the heart of OCBC’s trading operations. You’ll lead a team building and deploying cutting-edge models that drive pricing, risk management and trading strategies across global markets. This role offers significant impact, direct exposure to market dynamics, and the chance to shape the future of quantitative finance within a leading Asian bank.
How you succeed
You’ll succeed by fostering a collaborative and innovative environment within your team. Prioritise clear communication and rigorous testing to deliver reliable and scalable solutions. Focus on bridging the gap between research and implementation, ensuring models are robust, performant and aligned with business needs. Anticipate future market challenges and proactively develop solutions to maintain OCBC’s competitive edge.
About the Role:
This is a unique and rare opportunity for a passionate junior-to-mid level Quantitative Developer to join a front-office aligned engineering team and contribute to building end-to-end, mission‑critical systems from the ground up. You will gain exposure to the full lifecycle of model, product, and system development—an invaluable experience for anyone aspiring to grow into a strong quant technologist.
What you do
– Implement and maintain front-office analytics, pricing tools, and real-time risk components.
– Support structured product and derivatives workflows across multiple asset classes.
– Build scalable data pipelines, market‑data interfaces, and efficient production APIs.
– Contribute to system deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing performance optimization.
– Work alongside senior quants and technologists, learning best practices across the full lifecycle.
Who you work with
OCBC Global Markets encompasses Treasury Advisory and Institutional Sales, Asset Liability Management, Trading, and Business Management. All working together, offering services that enable efficient business operations and enabling customers to focus on growth. You’ll be joining a dynamic team. Ambitious. Award-winning. Driven. It’s about multi-product solutions that maximise opportunity for everyone. You included.
Who you are
– Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related fields.
– 1–5 years of experience in quant development, analytics engineering, or risk technology.
– Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of C++/C#/Java.
– Understanding of derivatives, pricing fundamentals, and numerical methods.
– Strong drive, curiosity, and willingness to collaborate closely with Singapore HQ teams.
Preferred Skills:
– Familiarity with databases, distributed systems, or backtesting frameworks.
– Exposure to market data, volatility surfaces, or pricing libraries.
– Demonstrated passion for quantitative finance and building systems end-to-end.
– Exhibits a cheerful personality and excellent communication skills to foster positive team collaboration and client interactions.
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.
