The posting
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



