The role
You will be the technical lead for the front-office transformation programme. You will own the target-state architecture, lead solution design and integration decisions, and act as the client's technical voice with platform vendors and implementation partners.
This is a hands-on design leadership role. It is not a project management or delivery coordination role.
What you will do
Work with portfolio managers, traders, research, risk and investment operations to map current workflows and define future-state requirements
Own the solution architecture across portfolio management, order management, execution, compliance, risk, performance and market data platforms
Define the target-state architecture and the migration path from legacy platforms
Design integrations: APIs, event-driven patterns, file interfaces, data pipelines and cloud integration services
Set data ownership, lineage, reconciliation and control standards for security master, instrument, position, transaction, pricing, benchmark and reference data
Work with data engineering teams on scalable solutions using Snowflake and cloud platforms
Define non-functional requirements: performance, availability, security, resilience, observability and disaster recovery
Lead technical design reviews and give hands-on guidance to engineering, data, integration and testing teams
Challenge vendor and system integrator designs, and hold partners to technical standards and milestones
Contribute to platform selection, build-versus-buy decisions and the multi-year investment technology roadmap
Promote engineering standards across CI/CD, automated testing, cybersecurity and operational resilience
What you must have
Please apply only if you meet
all
of the following:
12+ years in technology, with at least 5 years in
buy-side investment technology
(asset manager, sovereign or pension fund, insurer investment arm, or a vendor or consultancy serving them)
Current or recent role as Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Lead Engineer or Investment Technology Lead
Hands-on delivery of at least one
front-office platform implementation or migration
(PMS, OMS, EMS or trading platform), in a design-owning role
Clear understanding of the end-to-end investment lifecycle: research, portfolio management, order management, pre-trade compliance, trading, risk, performance and downstream operations
Proven design of complex integrations and data flows across multiple investment platforms
Experience working directly with senior investment and technology stakeholders, and managing vendors, integrators and consultants
Eligible to work in Singapore
Strongly preferred
Hands-on experience with
SimCorp Dimension
and/or
FlexTrade
Bloomberg investment and market data solutions (e.g. AIM, TOMS, B-PIPE, Data License)
Other OMS/EMS platforms such as Charles River, Aladdin, Eze or LSEG
Electronic trading platforms and broker connectivity (FIX)
Snowflake and public cloud (AWS or Azure) data platforms
This role is not a fit if
Your experience is mainly project or programme management, without owning technical design
Your background is retail banking, payments or general enterprise IT, with no front-office investment exposure
You have worked only on back-office, fund accounting or settlements systems
Your trading technology experience is sell-side only, with no portfolio management or buy-side workflow exposure
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