Engineering Lead: Platform & Architecture Driver

Prudential plc; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential plc in Malaysia seeks an Engineering Lead to guide the technical direction of the team, maintain high software quality, and mentor engineers across platform engineering, design, and hands-on development.

You will define roadmaps, oversee CI/CD, testing, and release pipelines, and drive architectural decisions for scalable and reliable systems while staying current with best practices and driving innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• ~5 years within financial services.
• ~12 years of development experience with ~5 years in a senior engineering role.
• Strong experience leading full stack development.
• Good understanding of DevOps pipeline (CI/CD, containerisation, test automation, automated deployment).
• Good understanding of Agile principles.
• Risk, Compliance and Audit Domain Knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical vision, strategy and roadmap in alignment with organisational goals.
• Oversee technical aspects of initiatives including design, CI/CD, testing and release pipeline, deployment.
• Hand on design and implement application frameworks/platform and reusable functionality.
• Lead technical evaluation of vendor platforms.
• Drive business solutions and technical excellence with vendor and internal teams.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices, including coding standards and DevOps.
• Make critical architectural decisions for scalability and reliability.
• Create and maintain architecture and high-level design docs.
• Drive solution approval with Group Solution Review Committee.
• Provide technical guidance to resolve challenging issues.
• Stay current with technologies and drive innovation through thought leadership.
• Lead automation, deployment and monitoring for high-quality releases.

Skills

Full stack leadership

DevOps awareness

Agile principles

Technical guidance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Containerisation

Test automation

Automated deployment

Cloud architecture (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS)

Job description

Prudential plc in Malaysia seeks an Engineering Lead to guide the technical direction of the team, maintain high software quality, and mentor engineers across platform engineering, design, and hands-on development.

You will define roadmaps, oversee CI/CD, testing, and release pipelines, and drive architectural decisions for scalable and reliable systems while staying current with best practices and driving innovation.