Associate Director, Platform Engineering - AI-Driven Scale

Singtel; Singapore; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Singtel Singapore is seeking an Associate Director – Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function, designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable platform that supports AI workloads in a modern, containerised environment. You will guide multiple engineering teams and establish engineering standards across the organisation.

Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Operations, Security, and other stakeholders, you will ensure delivery of enterprise platform capabilities and

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and technical leadership within enterprise environments.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams or large-scale platform engineering initiatives.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and private cloud platforms.
• Good understanding of AI platform workloads and enterprise platform engineering.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, DevOps practices, release management, and production support.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with practical technical oversight and mentoring.
• Experience supporting AI platforms or data-intensive enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise security, observability, resilience, and compliance practices.
• Experience working in matrix organisations with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through their team leads, providing technical guidance, coaching, and performance oversight.
• Define and drive the engineering strategy, technical direction, and platform architecture aligned with business objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise platform services using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, and modern web technologies.
• Ensure platform solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, maintainable, and operationally resilient across distributed platform environments.
• Establish and continuously improve software engineering practices, including code quality, CI/CD, release management, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to deliver platform capabilities and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches to ensure architectural consistency and engineering quality.
• Monitor delivery progress, manage risks, and ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines.
• Support production operations by driving platform stability, performance improvements, and incident resolution.
• Mentor engineering leaders and build technical capability across the engineering organisation.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Lead multiple teams

Stakeholder management

Communication

Decision making

Mentoring

Platform engineering

Technical strategy

Architectural direction

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cloud-native architectures

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Singtel Singapore is seeking an Associate Director – Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function, designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable platform that supports AI workloads in a modern, containerised environment. You will guide multiple engineering teams and establish engineering standards across the organisation.

Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Operations, Security, and other stakeholders, you will ensure delivery of enterprise platform capabilities and