Platform Engineering Leader for AI Workloads

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

Job summary

Singtel is seeking an Associate Director - Platform Engineering in Singapore to lead multiple engineering teams in designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable platform for AI workloads in a containerized environment.

You will drive engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices while collaborating with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations to deliver enterprise platform capabilities and ensure reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering and leadership in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams or large-scale platform 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.

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

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

DevOps

CI/CD

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Job description

Singtel is seeking an Associate Director - Platform Engineering in Singapore to lead multiple engineering teams in designing, developing, and operating a secure, scalable platform for AI workloads in a containerized environment.

You will drive engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices while collaborating with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations to deliver enterprise platform capabilities and ensure reliability, security, and operational excellence.