Senior Developer (SWIFT), PRO

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.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.

The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance, and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising, and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

With a primary role as a team member of the application development team, you will mainly be responsible for analysis and delivery of new features and integration and work with other teams for end-to-end solutions.

Other responsibilities include:

1. Act as point of contact for technical solutions for the applications in scope.
2. Where required, coordinate with 3rd party product vendors and/or integration partners for development and testing.
3. Provide timely updates and report to management.
4. Work with stakeholders to manage and prioritize the overall book of work against the team’s capacity.
5. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives relating to methods, tools, people, architecture, project management, and governance.

The ideal candidate should have experience in implementing/operating large-scale and complex mission-critical solutions:

1. Prior experience in a highly secured environment (e.g., financial services) with good understanding of security and audits, encryption, 2FA, or multi-factor authentication (MFA).
2. Experience in troubleshooting issues, performing root cause analysis, and identifying potential solutions with the team will be an added advantage.
3. Service management and production support experience will be an added advantage.
4. Experience in application development and operations of complex integrated application solutions (online and batch integrations):
1. Mandatory: RHEL (or other equivalent Linux distributions)
2. Technical Competencies include:
1. Experience developing or working on Swift applications – Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH), Swift Alliance Gateway (SAG), or integration with Swift GBI and understanding of MX/MT messaging formats.
2. Competency in modern Java microservice-based application development stack (Spring Boot) AND competency with relational database management systems (preferably Oracle and MariaDB).
3. Competency with messaging queue-based integration implementation (preferably IBM MQ Connect Direct) will be an added advantage.
4. Competency with integration framework like Apache Camel will be an added advantage.
5. Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices will be an added advantage.
6. Domain knowledge in various payment functions (validation, processing) and corresponding technical solutions will be an added advantage.

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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