Senior Software Engineer

About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description
About The Department
UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub2) is a UOB-wholly owned subsidiary and a Centre of Excellence based in Malaysia, providing Group Business Services (GBS) to support the UOB Group. Started in 2021 with technology application design, development and support, InnoHub2 is expanding beyond technology services to deliver other business services to support the Bank's growth ambition. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to be part of the pioneer team spearheading the development and delivery of the new services.

As part of the InnoHub2 team, you will have the opportunity to work on Group initiatives and gain regional business exposure. We are dynamic, passionate and purposeful about delivering trusted financial solutions that enables business growth. An exciting career progression with varied opportunities awaits you at IH2. Come grow your career with us.

Job Responsibilities

• You will lead a team of software engineers who will audit application and environment defects to perform critical Fix on Fail and Fix Before Fail activities for the Payments Integration Team with a focus on customer entitlement workflow, real-time data services, personal data repository and payment platform services.
• You will be expected to be an SME who will be able to perform fault analysis on Software as well as Infrastructure faults. You will be expected to perform fixes on software and oversee fixes on Infrastructure.
• The L3 team is the Software Development escalation point for L1 and L2 teams to ensure the applications' fitness for purpose. As a senior, you are expected to guide, coach and develop the junior software engineers under your care.
• Act as point of contact for technical resolutions while managing the incident, problem, and knowledge management processes for the applications in scope.
• Where required, audit solutions from escalations to 3rd party product vendors and/or integration partners.
• Provide timely updates and report to management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives relating to methods, tools, people, architecture, project management and governance.

Job Requirements
The ideal candidate should have broad experience in operating large-scale and complex solutions:

• Mastery of Java Springboot and strong foundation of Database optimization and good understanding of the Linux Operating System. Must be able to audit codes, queries and OS configurations.
• Extensive experience in the software development cycle with a focus on shift left quality initiatives.
• Strong communication skills to communicate with various stakeholders (both working level and management) across business and technical teams.
• Prior experience in a highly secured environment (eg: financial services) with good understanding on security and audits, encryption, 2FA or multi-factor authentication (MFA).
• RHEL (or other equivalent Linux distributions)
• Modern Java microservice-based application development stack (Spring Boot, ORM Framework like MyBatis)
• Experience with database management systems (preferably Oracle)
• Shell Scripting
• Experience in JBoss application server will be an added advantage.
• Experience in Apache web server will be an added advantage.
• Experience in implementation of file conversion (eg: text to XML and vice-versa).
• Experience in Agile and DevOps practices will be an added advantage.
• Domain knowledge in corporate banking application and payments platform will be an added advantage. Customer Entitlement Workflow (CEW) & Payment Data Repository (PDR), FIS Open Payment Framework.

Additional Requirements
Be a Part of the UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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