AI-First Corporate IT Director

Confidential; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Corporate IT Director in Singapore to redefine how IT operates with AI at its core. This hands-on leadership role will own the global IT function, from enterprise tools to end-user services, and build self-healing infrastructure at scale.

You will design resilient architectures, set a strategic vision, and actively tackle complex technical problems while mentoring an AI-native team and managing vendor relationships and budgets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on IT, infrastructure, or systems engineering experience, including leading IT operations teams.
• Proven track record of leveraging AI tools in daily workflows and deploying AI-driven automation within enterprise IT.
• Strong technical depth in IaC, modern identity systems, cloud infrastructure, and endpoint security management.

Responsibilities

• AI-First Leadership & Enablement: Define and execute a company-wide IT strategy where AI is the default operating model.
• Core IT Operations & Services: Oversee end-user IT services, including identity and access management, device provisioning, onboarding/offboarding workflows, collaboration systems, and the IT service desk.
• Infrastructure & System Automation: Maintain and scale global corporate infrastructure with AI-driven monitoring, infrastructure-as-code, and automated self-healing mechanisms.
• Enterprise Stack & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with C-suite leadership and cross-functional engineering teams to select, architect, integrate, and roll out scalable enterprise tools and secure data governance controls.
• Architecture & Problem Solving: Apply robust systems thinking to balance build-vs-buy decisions, design simplified system architectures, and lead root‑cause analysis for major technical incidents.
• Team & Resource Management: Build, mentor, and upskill a high‑performing, AI-native IT team designed to scale through system efficiency. Manage vendor relationships, technology stack contracts, and corporate IT budgets.

Skills

AI-first mindset

Infrastructure as code

Cloud infrastructure

Identity management

Vendor management

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Corporate IT Director in Singapore to redefine how IT operates with AI at its core. This hands-on leadership role will own the global IT function, from enterprise tools to end-user services, and build self-healing infrastructure at scale.

You will design resilient architectures, set a strategic vision, and actively tackle complex technical problems while mentoring an AI-native team and managing vendor relationships and budgets.