Platform Engineering Manager — AI, Cloud & Payroll

AYP HR GROUP SDN. BHD.; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 1,150,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

AYP HR GROUP SDN. BHD. seeks an Senior Engineering Manager to own the engineering function, leading development, DevOps and QA to deliver a scalable platform.

You will set technical direction, drive architecture decisions, and maintain security and data protection across APAC markets. Collaboration with Product is essential as you own technical approach and delivery. This hands-on leadership role requires proven ability to hire, structure teams across locations, and report progress in business

Qualifications

• Proven engineering leadership with delivery outcomes across multiple teams
• Experience building and leading engineering teams across locations
• Strong track record in agile delivery and team velocity
• Excellent communication with product management and non-technical audiences
• Experience managing relationships with external technology vendors and partners

Responsibilities

• Set technical architecture and a sequenced engineering roadmap from platform priorities, and make the build, buy and integration calls.
• Own delivery of committed scope across the team, allocating capacity and balancing scope, time and quality.
• Own cloud infrastructure and platform reliability: AWS architecture and cost, database performance, deployment pipelines, and incident response.
• Own security and data protection: access control, vulnerability management, and the standards that keep client payroll and personal data safe across every market we serve.
• Set the direction on AI, both in the product and in how the team builds, and take it from proof of concept through to production.
• Define engineering standards: code and architecture quality, review gates, and how technical debt is managed.
• Lead and grow the engineering, DevOps and QA teams, from hiring and onboarding through capability and performance.
• Act as the final technical decision‑maker, and shape how engineering is structured as the team grows.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team building

Agile delivery

AWS

Architecture

AI tooling

Stakeholder comms

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

AYP HR GROUP SDN. BHD. seeks an Senior Engineering Manager to own the engineering function, leading development, DevOps and QA to deliver a scalable platform.

You will set technical direction, drive architecture decisions, and maintain security and data protection across APAC markets. Collaboration with Product is essential as you own technical approach and delivery. This hands-on leadership role requires proven ability to hire, structure teams across locations, and report progress in business