Full-timeTech & engineering· Posted 11 Sept

Associate Director, Software Engineering

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Full-time hours

Where

Singapore

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Start: Not stated
Work mode: On-site
Experience: Experienced

About the role

A senior engineering leadership role at Singtel in Singapore, overseeing a portfolio of customer-facing products and backend platform systems. You will set technical direction, manage engineering teams and vendor relationships, and work closely with senior stakeholders across the business. It suits an experienced engineering leader who combines hands-on technical depth with people management and strategic thinking.

What you'll do

Define and drive the technical roadmap and architectural vision across the application ecosystem
Ensure applications are built for scalability, high availability, security and performance on AWS
Lead adoption of engineering practices such as CI/CD, observability and automated testing

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Manage, mentor and coach multiple engineering teams and senior engineering managers

Oversee the full software development lifecycle for timely, high-quality delivery

Drive talent acquisition, retention and performance management for the engineering department

Own strategic relationships and performance of technology and outsourcing partners, including SLAs and contracts

Conduct vendor due diligence and risk assessments against security and compliance needs

Drive cost optimisation and value from vendor contracts such as AWS spend and platform licences

Act as primary technical interface for executive leadership, Product, Finance and regional business heads

Manage competing expectations across the application portfolio

Communicate technical risks, progress and decisions to business audiences

Evolve core services and APIs on the Open Platform for robustness and ease of integration

Direct teams responsible for front-end experience, feature development and regional partner integrations

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Based in Singapore

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive software engineering experience
At least 5 years in an engineering leadership role
Proven track record managing and scaling engineering teams
Experience in strategic vendor and external partner management, including contract negotiation and performance monitoring
Hands-on understanding of Java, React/Next.js, microservices and relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL)
Experience designing, deploying and operating applications on AWS (e.g. ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)

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Associate Director, Software Engineering

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