Overview
The Head of Wealth Management Brokerage Technology leads the strategic design, engineering, and delivery of the bank's brokerage and wealthtrading platform. This role focuses on building highperformance, scalable systems that enable seamless client trading, global market access, and rapid product expansion across equities, ETFs, and cryptio. The role partners closely with business and product teams to support growth in both retail and affluent client segments.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Architecture
- Set the longterm technology strategy for brokerage and wealthtrading platforms, aligned with the bank's multimarket growth agenda.
- Architect resilient, secure, and scalable systems covering client channels, order management, execution, market data, risk controls, and posttrade flows.
- Lead platform modernisation and adoption of cloudnative, eventdriven, and APIfirst designs to support higher trading volumes and new markets.
- Ensure architecture readiness for expansion into new asset classes, crossborder trading, and multimarket connectivity.
Platform Build & Delivery
- Oversee the buildout of fronttoback brokerage systems—client trading interfaces, OMS/EMS, routing engines, settlement interfaces, and global market access gateways.
- Strengthen integrations with exchanges, regional brokers, marketdata providers, and liquidity partners to support wealthtrading needs.
- Drive key engineering outcomes including lowlatency execution, high availability, and automated controls for marketaccess risk.
- Lead delivery of new trading features such as fractional trading, 24 by 7 trading, global multimarket access and advanced order types,.
Operations, Reliability & Risk Management
- Establish robust SRE frameworks to deliver zero downtime for critical trading windows.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, proactive incident management, disasterrecovery capabilities and elastic scaling for highvolume trading days.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, including technologyrisk standards, marketconduct rules, and operations controls across markets.
Business Partnering & Product Leadership
- Partner with brokerage, wealth, and digital product teams to translate commercial priorities into technical roadmaps and delivery outcomes.
- Colead product innovation across retail and wealthtrading customer journeys, ensuring platform readiness for new market launches.
- Support business strategy with datadriven insights on trading scalability, marketconnectivity opportunities, and clientexperience improvements.
People & Stakeholder Leadership
- Build and lead highperforming engineering, architecture, and platformoperations teams with strong brokerage and marketaccess expertise.
- Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, technical excellences and disciplinedexecution.
- Communicate platform strategy, risks, and delivery progress clearly to senior stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Strong experience in brokerage, wealthtrading, or capitalmarkets technology, with deep understanding of multimarket trading workflows.
- Proven success delivering missioncritical trading systems (OMS/EMS, market connectivity, realtime data, and posttrade processing).
- Expertise in legacy refactoring, cloud engineering, microservices, APIdriven platforms, and realtime data architectures.
- Familiarity with regulatory and technologyrisk expectations in crossborder trading environments.
- Demonstrated ability to work with senior business and product stakeholders and simplify technical concepts.
- Experience leading engineering or platform teams within highscale trading environments.
Location:
DBS Asia Central
Job:
Technology
Schedule:
Regular
Employee Status:
Full time
