APAC Regional Lead - Agency Trading Market Engineering Technology

Your role

As APAC Regional Lead for Market Engineering Technology, you will serve as the senior technology executive and primary business interface accountable for Agency Trading Market Engineering platforms across APAC, with leadership responsibility for Agency Trading Technology in Hong Kong.
This role carries end to end accountability for platform performance, resilience, and regulatory standing, ensuring that technology is a differentiating enabler of front office trading while operating within the firm’s risk and control framework.

You will operate at the intersection of engineering leadership, business partnership, and regulatory accountability, shaping both the technical direction and organizational capability required to support high volume, low latency trading in complex APAC markets.
Acting as the regional face of Technology, you will lead through senior leaders, influence global direction, and serve as the ultimate escalation authority for material delivery, production risk, and regulatory matters.

Join us

At UBS, we know that it's our people, with their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds, who drive our ongoing success. We’re dedicated to our craft and passionate about putting our people first, with new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow and flexible working options when possible. Our inclusive culture brings out the best in our employees, wherever they are on their career journey. And we use artificial intelligence (AI) to work smarter and more efficiently. We also recognize that great work is never done alone. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves.
We’re committed to disability inclusion and if you need reasonable accommodation/adjustments throughout our recruitment process, you can always contact us.

Your team

Regional Platform Ownership & Technical Authority
•Own the strategy, architecture, stability, and lifecycle of APAC Agency Trading and OMS platforms, including low latency trading capabilities across order lifecycle, workflows, client connectivity, controls, and observability.
•Set and enforce technical standards and engineering discipline across the region, ensuring consistency, scalability, and resilience.
•Maintain hands on technical credibility, guiding critical design decisions in high throughput, low latency environments.

Delivery & Change Leadership
•Provide oversight of complex, high risk initiatives, ensuring disciplined execution from inception through stabilization.
•Ensure delivery meets business, client, market, and regulatory commitments, with active prioritization and risk management.
•Establish transparent governance and predictable delivery models across distributed teams.

Production Resilience, Risk & Regulatory Accountability
•Act as the senior escalation authority for critical incidents, market events, and client-impacting issues.
•Own structural remediation and risk reduction, driving durable improvements in platform resilience and control maturity.
•Ensure platforms meet APAC regulatory obligations, audit expectations, and operational resilience standards, particularly within Hong Kong.

Organizational & People Leadership
•Lead and develop senior technology leaders and engineering teams across Hong Kong and APAC.
•Drive talent, succession, and capability strategy aligned with UBS leadership and risk frameworks.
•Foster a culture of accountability, engineering excellence, and disciplined execution.

Stakeholder & Regulatory Engagement
•Build trusted partnerships that balance technology outcomes with Trading, Product, COO, Risk, Compliance and Regional leadership priorities.
•Represent Technology in regulatory, audit, and control forums, articulating position and ensuring defensibility.
•Translate complex technical and operational risk into clear, actionable insight.

Regional Strategy & Transformation
•Shape APAC technology strategy in alignment with global priorities, including platform simplification and cost efficiency.
•Advise senior leadership on delivery sequencing, systemic risk, and investment trade-offs.
•Drive adoption of AI, automation and AI-enabled tooling to enhance delivery efficiency, resilience, and control.

Your expertise

•15+ years in senior technology leadership roles in front-office within tier one financial institutions
•Expertise in front-office / trading platforms, with strong grounding in low latency or high throughput systems.
•Proven track record of leading large, distributed engineering organizations regionally with full accountability for delivery, stability, and risk.
•Served as a key contact and escalation point, managing business, risk, and stakeholder priorities in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments.
•Recognized for sound judgment and decisive leadership in high risk, high ambiguity environments.
•Strong familiarity with APAC regulatory environments, with Hong Kong exposure preferred.

About us

UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland. We also provide diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS is present in more than 50 markets around the globe.
We know that great work is never done alone. That’s why we place collaboration at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves. Want to find out more? Visit ubs.com/careers.