Engineering Lead: Platform, Architecture & DevOps

Prudential Services Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia is seeking an accomplished Engineering Lead to guide the technical direction of the team, ensuring high standards of software quality and developer growth. You will oversee system design, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployments across multiple initiatives.

The role combines platform engineering, design, hands-on development and leadership to drive scalable, reliable solutions for financial services. Strong experience in full stack development and DevOps is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• ~12 years of development experience with ~5 years in a senior engineering role.
• Strong experience leading full stack development and delivery of financial services projects.
• Good understanding of DevOps pipeline: CI/CD, containerisation, test automation and automated deployment.
• Strong Agile principles and risk, compliance and audit domain knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical vision, strategy and roadmap aligned with organisational goals.
• Oversee technical aspects including system design, CI/CD, testing and release pipeline.
• Hands-on design and implementation of application frameworks and reusable components.
• Lead evaluation of vendor platforms and drive technical excellence across teams.
• Provide guidance to resolve challenging technical issues and stay current with tech trends.

Skills

Full stack development

DevOps

CI/CD

Leadership

Architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

ReactJS

Java

Spring

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Spark

Power BI

REST API

Job description

Prudential Services Asia is seeking an accomplished Engineering Lead to guide the technical direction of the team, ensuring high standards of software quality and developer growth. You will oversee system design, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployments across multiple initiatives.

The role combines platform engineering, design, hands-on development and leadership to drive scalable, reliable solutions for financial services. Strong experience in full stack development and DevOps is essential.