Executive Software Engineering Lead - Platform & Architecture

Singapore Exchange Limited; Shenton Way; On-site; SGD 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore Exchange Limited is seeking a SVP/Executive Director of Software Engineering to lead and shape SGX’s enterprise software engineering vision, platform strategy, and operating model. You will drive architecture governance, platform resilience, and security across multiple teams in a high-availability, regulated market infrastructure environment.

You will mentor leaders, build scalable operating models, and advance engineering standards while partnering with business stakeholders to align

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in senior software engineering, platform engineering or technology leadership roles.
• Defined enterprise engineering direction with scalable operating models and governance.
• Deep expertise in modern distributed systems, microservices, service mesh and observability.
• Strong cloud knowledge across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud platforms; SRE practices including incident management, chaos engineering, capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise engineering vision and drive transformation across SGX Tech.
• Shape enterprise-wide software architecture strategy and technology evolution.
• Define org-wide security and engineering risk strategy.

Skills

Senior leadership

Enterprise platforms

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Site Reliability Engineering

Leadership mentoring

Executive relationships

Strategic planning

AI/automation mindset

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Postgraduate qualifications

Tools

AWS EKS

Azure AKS

GCP GKE

Job description

Singapore Exchange Limited is seeking a SVP/Executive Director of Software Engineering to lead and shape SGX’s enterprise software engineering vision, platform strategy, and operating model. You will drive architecture governance, platform resilience, and security across multiple teams in a high-availability, regulated market infrastructure environment.

You will mentor leaders, build scalable operating models, and advance engineering standards while partnering with business stakeholders to align