Senior VP: Software Engineering & Platform Delivery

Singapore Exchange Limited

Singapore

On-site

SGD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

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Job summary

SGX Group, based in Singapore, seeks a Vice President, Software Engineer to lead engineering across multiple teams and domains. You will set direction, strengthen discipline and own design, delivery, operation and continuous improvement of services powering market infrastructure.

You will balance agility with resilience and security in a mission-critical environment, guiding architecture, trade-offs and development priorities while building lasting capability within the organisation.

Qualifications

Experience leading software engineering across multiple teams in a complex, high-availability environment.
Strong engineering judgement balancing architecture, resilience, security, and priorities.
Experience setting technical direction, leading architecture reviews and evolving platforms while managing debt and risk.
Solid grounding in software and platform engineering, including microservices, event-driven systems, API design, resilience, observability.
Experience with DevOps, SRE, automation, testing discipline, end-to-end service ownership and incident leadership.
Strong people and stakeholder leadership, from team development and hiring through to working with senior business and technology leaders.
Comfortable with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, PagerDuty, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

Own the outcome: Lead engineering with accountability for delivery quality, security, resilience and production performance.
Translate business and technology strategy into clear engineering plans, partnering with product, project and programme leaders to align priorities, resources, delivery milestones and investment decisions.
Partner with product, architecture, platform, and delivery leaders to shape solutions and manage trade-offs, rather than simply executing against requirements.
Set technical direction and strengthen architecture, engineering standards and solution governance across your remit.
Evolve platforms through lifecycle planning and steady work on technical debt, using modern design practices where they earn their place.
Improve SDLC, DevOps, site reliability engineering, automation, testing, observability and service ownership so that delivery is dependable and sustainable.
Build engineering teams through hiring, coaching, succession planning and honest performance conversations.
Raise accountability and technical judgement across the teams you lead.
Lead through major incidents and engage senior stakeholders on strategic priorities, trade-offs, delivery progress, risk and investment decisions.