BEA is a Hong Kong-listed banking group running a split stack: legacy cores on AS/400, IBM MQ, PowerBuilder and Teradata alongside a modern data layer of Airflow, dbt, Kafka and multi-cloud AWS, GCP and Azure. Hiring is accelerating and skews toward finance, risk and manager-level roles in China and Singapore, matching a pain-point pattern dominated by compliance, credit standards and third-party risk.
Notable leadership hires: Section Head
The Bank of East Asia is a financial services group headquartered in Hong Kong, incorporated in 1918 and listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. It offers wholesale banking, personal banking, wealth management and investment services. Its Hong Kong footprint includes branches, SupremeGold Centres and i-Financial Centres, and it operates outlets in 38 cities across the Chinese Mainland. The group also has a presence in Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States, with about 120 outlets and a workforce in the 5,001–10,000 range.
BEA runs AS/400, IBM MQ, Oracle, Teradata and PeopleSoft alongside Apache Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Python, Tableau and Power BI, hosted across AWS, GCP and Azure, with CyberArk and Nessus for security.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating, concentrated in finance, operations, risk, product and sales, mostly at manager and senior levels, with roles based in China and Singapore.
BEA is headquartered in Hong Kong, with a network across the Chinese Mainland plus operations in Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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