Head of Digital Engineering, APAC

GTS Consulting; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

GTS Consulting partners with a leading global insurance organization to appoint a Senior IT leader in Kuala Lumpur. You will own end-to-end IT development, engineering delivery, and production operations, shaping the SaaS platform and multi-country deployments.

You will drive best practices, design robust architectures, and lead a team of developers while aligning execution with short- and long-term business goals. Strong stakeholder engagement and DevOps mastery are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT development and production operations for large organizations.
• Proven ability to align technology with strategic business objectives.
• Strong knowledge of SaaS architecture and multi-country deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end IT application development and smooth production running.
• Drive adoption of best practices, tools, and frameworks for development and operations.
• Ensure design and development align with short- and long-term business goals.
• Develop and maintain a robust SaaS architecture for a digital insurance platform.

Skills

Stakeholder leadership

Team leadership

Java

Spring Boot

JavaScript

ReactJS

RESTful APIs

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

DevOps

Agile delivery

Technical design

Code review

Tech strategy

Education

Tools

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

• Global talent welcome: Candidates based outside Malaysia are encouraged to apply.
• Tech + business leader: Challenge the status quo and turn technology into business impact.
• Startup mindset: Move fast, stay hands‑on, experiment, and build for scale.

Our client is a leading global insurance organization providing a broad range of insurance and risk management solutions to individuals, businesses, and corporate clients. With a strong international presence, the organization is committed to helping customers manage risk, protect their assets, and build a more resilient future. It combines industry expertise, innovative solutions, and a strong focus on sustainability and customer needs, offering employees opportunities to grow, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact.

Overall responsibility for IT development, engineering delivery, and production operations across the organization.

Strategic Leadership

KEY TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Own the end-to-end IT application development and smooth production running.
• Drive identification and adoption of best practices, tools and frameworks for development & operations
• Ensure design and development are always focused on strategic short term and long-term business objectives.
• Create approaches and plans for the SaaS agenda for the digital insurance platform, with a strong focus on reuse, scalability, and optimized delivery

Technical Excellence

• Drive speed to market with delivery of initiatives.
• Own the execution of the SaaS agenda
• Convert strategy to action by developing and maintaining a robust technical design and adherence to design during build.
• Drive business focus and urgency within the development teams.
• Ensure technical teams are staying current with emerging and newer technologies.
• Drive implementation of robust engineering and DevOps practices and tools for frequent multi-country deployments.
• Ensure Information security requirements are constantly considered are implemented during design and build.
• Ensure identification and robust implementation of best practices for production monitoring, observability and alerting. Including proactively identifying problem areas and addressing.

Experience/ Skills

• Senior stakeholder engagement and influence
• Prior experience with leading a team of developers
• Passion for technology.
• In depth technical understanding of multiple technologies
• Restful APIs
• Spring boot (Java)
• JavaScript
• ReactJS
• Databases (Postgres)
• Cloud – AWS, docker containers etc
• Ability to document and communicate technical design to developers
• Ability to review code
• Ability to review technical frameworks, libraries, tools and products. Including being able to do Poof of concepts before decision to adopt.
• DevOps and Agile delivery experience
• Technology qualifications and relevant certifications