Chief Engineering & AI Transformation Lead

Merquri Pte Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Merquri Pte Ltd. in Singapore seeks a Head of Engineering to own the engineering strategy, governance, and execution for our software platforms.

You will steer architectural direction, ensure security-by-design and high availability, and align with enterprise goals. You will lead a global engineering organization, drive delivery maturity across the SDLC, implement CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted development to boost productivity, code quality, and time-to-market.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with leadership experience.
• 6+ years directing multi-team engineering organizations and multi-million-dollar pipelines.
• 3–5 years in high-transaction real-time tech domains.
• Proven track record modernizing engineering cultures and managing offshore/vendor resources.

Responsibilities

• Define, scale, and drive the engineering vision, standards, and operating model aligning with commercial goals.
• Own end-to-end architectural direction for transactional platforms, APIs, and cloud-native solutions with security-by-design and high-availability.
• Lead and scale a global engineering organization; coach, recruit, and develop leaders and teams.
• Establish high-quality delivery frameworks across the SDLC: estimation, testing automation, CI/CD, observability, production support.
• Strategic AI adoption: embed AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows into daily engineering tasks.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

AI adoption

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

GLI-19 or GLI-33 familiarity

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

TOGAF 9/10 certification

CISSP/CISM or AWS Security – Specialty

Tools

AWS

Job description

Merquri Pte Ltd. in Singapore seeks a Head of Engineering to own the engineering strategy, governance, and execution for our software platforms.

You will steer architectural direction, ensure security-by-design and high availability, and align with enterprise goals. You will lead a global engineering organization, drive delivery maturity across the SDLC, implement CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted development to boost productivity, code quality, and time-to-market.