About this role
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.
Platform / Middleware Infrastructure Architect
Why Join
Imagine being part of a team that shapes the future of banking technology. As a Platform / Middleware Infrastructure Architect at OCBC, you'll play a key role in designing and implementing innovative solutions that transform the way we deliver financial services. You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented individuals, and develop your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.
How you succeed
To succeed in this role, you'll need to stay ahead of the curve in terms of technology trends and advancements. You'll work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and develop architecture solutions that meet their requirements. You'll also need to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and implementation of technology solutions.
What you do
Align Solution Design with Enterprise Strategy
Ensure platform/middleware designs align to target state, security strategy (mTLS, certificate lifecycle, secrets), data protection, and regulatory requirements for logging/retention and change governance.
Deliver Comprehensive Solutions Design Artefacts
Produce HLD/MLD and deployment architectures for Web/App platforms (WebLogic/WebSphere/JBoss/Tomcat/.NET), messaging/streaming (IBM MQ/RabbitMQ/Kafka), API gateway/ESB, reverse proxy/web (NGINX/IIS), and platform services on Kubernetes/OpenShift; include capacity, scaling, and DR patterns.
Define and Evolve Architecture Design Patterns
Standardize blue/green and canary release patterns, golden runtime images, service mesh ingress/egress, TLS/mTLS, JWT/OAuth2/OIDC, circuit-breaker/timeouts/retries, schema/versioning for integration, and SLO/SLA templates; codify policies-as-code where feasible.
Deep Domain Expertise with Agility
Expertise in JVM and .NET runtime tuning, connection pooling, thread/heap management, GC strategies, Kafka partitioning/replication, MQ HA, API throttling/caching, and container platform constructs (namespaces/quotas/operators).
Collaborate and Govern Effectively
Drive platform governance (upgrade/roadmap, CVE response, deprecation plans), steward exception processes with risk narratives, and ensure alignment with DevSecOps and application teams on non-functional requirements.
Hands-On Engagement with Delivery Teams
Embed with squads to enable CI/CD for middleware configurations, GitOps for Kubernetes, automated image pipelines, performance test harnesses, and runbooks for scaling/failover; support cutovers and production readiness.
Provide Expert Guidance and Support
Mentor platform and application engineers on reliability engineering, capacity/cost trade-offs, observability (APM/logs/metrics/traces), and incident/post-incident remediation with architecture fixes.
Who you are
10+ years designing and operating enterprise middleware platforms (application servers, MQ/streaming, API gateways, web/proxy) across on-prem and hybrid cloud; strong Kubernetes/containers experience.
Demonstrated delivery of patterns, standards and executable blueprints; strong automation (Ansible, Terraform), pipeline integration (CI/CD, GitOps), and security integration (PKI, secrets, token-based authentication).
Familiar with risk/control frameworks and regional regulations; able to translate compliance into platform guardrails.
Advantageous certifications: Red Hat (OpenShift/Ansible), CNCF (CKA/CKS), vendor-specific middleware certifications (WebLogic/WebSphere/JBoss), Azure/AWS platform certifications.
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.
Other facts
About OCBC
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.
What you'll do
- The Platform / Middleware Infrastructure Architect will design and implement innovative solutions for financial services, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and regulatory requirements. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide expert guidance to enhance platform governance and reliability.
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