Technical Lead – Private Banking / Global Markets – 80k to 120k

Technical Lead – Wealth Management / Private Banking / Global Markets – 80k to 120k

I am currently helping our Client seeking a Technical Lead (Associate Director) to join the team in Hong Kong.

Role Summary

This role involves driving technical analysis, designing scalable solutions, and coordinating delivery efforts across various domains such as application development, decisioning, simulation, and reporting workflows. You will collaborate closely with business, risk, operations, and engineering teams to transform requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution design efforts for Credit Platform capabilities, including applications, decisioning engines, simulations, and reporting systems.
• Establish and embed best practices for Business Analysis within the Credit Platform, including standards, templates, and workflows.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, risk teams, operations, and IT engineering to interpret goals and translate them into actionable deliverables.
• Represent Credit Technology in project governance, working groups, and decision-making forums to ensure alignment and timely delivery.
• Develop epics, user stories, business requirements, and detailed functional specifications with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Create functional designs covering process flows, data mappings, business rules, and exception handling for development teams.
• Assist the Product Owner with backlog grooming, prioritization, dependency management, and release planning.
• Lead technical design reviews, ensure architectural consistency, and oversee delivery planning.
• Facilitate integration with upstream and downstream systems, including trading, risk management, finance, and data platforms.
• Maintain quality standards by defining acceptance criteria, test strategies, supporting QA efforts, and managing release governance.
• Manage project risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication to ensure smooth project execution.
• Support compliance with regulatory, audit, and control requirements throughout solution design and deployment.

Should Have

• Extensive experience in credit domain platforms within banking or financial services.
• Proven leadership as a Tech Lead, Business Analyst Lead, or in a hybrid role within complex transformation programs.
• Hands-on experience in Wealth Management and Private Banking projects.
• Deep domain expertise in Credit, Wealth Financing, and Investment solutions.
• Practical understanding of enterprise architecture, APIs, event-driven integrations, and data workflows.
• Strong skills in requirements engineering, process modelling, stakeholder management, and impact analysis.
• Proven track record in managing the entire SDLC lifecycle in regulated enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with collateral management, margin monitoring, and credit workflow modernization.
• Familiarity with architecture governance and documentation standards at large financial institutions.
• Exposure to risk simulation, stress testing, and credit reporting platforms.
• Strong understanding of global credit regulations and risk management controls.
• Experience working with engineering and testing teams to define test scenarios, support UAT, and manage defect triage.
• Contributions to release management, change activities, cutover planning, and operational readiness.
• Knowledge of end-to-end system flows, dependencies, and integration points, including API and messaging-based systems.
• Awareness of security principles such as authentication, authorization, least privilege, and audit logging.

Please reach out to German Cham at german.cham@connectedgroup.com for more information.

Technical Lead – Wealth Management / Private Banking / Global Markets – 80k to 120k