Platform Engineering Director for AI & Cloud

SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED is seeking an Associate Director – Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function responsible for designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable AI-ready platform in a containerised environment.

You will guide multiple teams, set engineering standards, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven track record leading multiple engineering teams or large platform initiatives.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes and Kafka.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and private clouds.
• Knowledge of AI workloads and enterprise platform engineering.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, DevOps, release and production support.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on technical mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through team leads, providing technical guidance and performance oversight.
• Define and drive the engineering strategy, technical direction, and platform architecture.
• Oversee 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, and operable across distributed environments.
• Establish and improve software engineering practices including CI/CD, release management, incident management and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, DevOps, Infrastructure and Operations to deliver platform capabilities and resolve dependencies.
• Review technical designs to ensure architectural consistency and engineering quality.
• Monitor delivery progress, manage risks, and ensure timely project delivery.
• Support production operations by driving platform stability and performance improvements.
• Mentor engineering leaders and build technical capability across the organisation.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cloud-native architectures

DevOps practices

Job description

SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED is seeking an Associate Director – Platform Engineering to lead the engineering function responsible for designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable AI-ready platform in a containerised environment.

You will guide multiple teams, set engineering standards, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.