SVP, Cloud Architect

SGX Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

SGX Group is seeking a Senior Vice President of Cloud Architecture to shape cloud strategy, governance, and platforms across the enterprise. You will drive transformation in regulated environments, coordinating with risk, security, and business stakeholders to enable scalable cloud solutions.

Based in Singapore, this role offers executive visibility and a chance to influence SGX's critical technology platforms, balancing resilience, cost efficiency, and innovation in fast-paced financial markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering in large, highly available environments.
• Proven track record of establishing engineering standards and governance.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native patterns.
• Strong Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and observability at enterprise scale.
• Ability to balance security, resilience, and performance in regulated settings.
• Excellent executive communication and leadership track record.

Responsibilities

• Define SGX cloud architecture strategy and governance.
• Lead cloud transformation and platform modernization initiatives.
• Establish enterprise cloud standards and reference architectures.
• Partner with risk, security, and operations to ensure compliance.
• Mentor architecture teams and communities of practice.
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to translate priorities into scalable cloud solutions.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

Enterprise technology

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Observability

Security & resilience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information and Communications Technology

Job description

At SGX Group, we create markets. We turn ideas into products and expand access to new opportunities. We are building the future of the exchange in-house: from architecture and platforms to the critical systems that power markets. The biggest decisions are still open to people who join us now.

Job description:

BUILD MARKETS. SHAPE ECONOMIES.

At SGX Group, we create markets. We turn ideas into products and expand access to new opportunities. We are building the future of the exchange in-house: from architecture and platforms to the critical systems that power markets. The biggest decisions are still open to people who join us now.

The opportunity

The Senior Vice President, Cloud Architecture is a senior technology leadership role responsible for shaping and designing SGX’s cloud architecture strategy, operating model, and technology standards. This leader establishes the architectural foundations that enable secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud platforms across SGX. Operating across mission-critical and regulated environments, the role drives cloud transformation, platform modernisation, architecture governance, and technology innovation while ensuring alignment with enterprise risk, security, resilience, and business objectives.

Within SGX's Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), this leader is accountable for defining cloud strategy, architecture standards, governance frameworks, and target-state technology platforms. The position provides architectural leadership across cloud transformation initiatives and ensures technology investments align with enterprise objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term platform strategy.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the future of cloud technology at SGX and influence the evolution of enterprise platforms that underpin critical market infrastructure. The role is suited for a leader motivated to drive large-scale platform modernisation and establish long-term technology capabilities that deliver sustainable business value.

The position provides enterprise visibility and close engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to directly influence enterprise architecture decisions and build the foundational capabilities that strengthen SGX's resilience, agility, and competitiveness.

What you will do

• Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Establish cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Cloud Strategy & Transformation: Define and execute SGX's cloud architecture strategy, roadmap, and adoption framework aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Platform Engineering: Define strategic direction for cloud platform engineering capabilities, including self-service platforms, developer experience, and platform standardisation.
• Cloud Governance & Risk: Establish architecture governance processes ensuring compliance with regulatory, security, resilience, and risk management requirements.
• Cloud Security Architecture: Partner with security teams to define cloud security patterns, zero-trust principles, identity architecture, and secure-by-design standards.
• Infrastructure Modernisation: Lead modernisation initiatives across infrastructure, middleware, containers, and cloud-native platforms.
• Cloud Cost and Value: Define patterns that leverage cloud cost management, optimisation, and investment governance strategies.
• Technology Standards: Establish enterprise standards for cloud-native services and architectures, infrastructure as code, observability, resilience engineering.
• Architecture Review & Assurance: Govern major technology initiatives through architecture review processes and technical design assurance.
• Resilience & Availability: Define architecture patterns according to industry best-practices for high availability, disaster recovery, operational resilience, and business continuity requirements.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Develop architecture capability, succession planning, technical leadership, and enterprise architecture communities of practice.
• Agentic AI & Cloud Innovation: Define architectural approaches for AI-native platforms, cloud-based AI services, automation, and emerging technology adoption within a regulated environment.
• Partner closely with business, engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into scalable cloud solutions and business value.

What we are looking for

Essentials

• Experience: Extensive senior leadership experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering or enterprise technology within large, complex and highly available environments.
• Track record: Proven track record of establishing engineering standards, leading technical governance and driving platform modernisation and optimisation programmes, using engineering metrics such as reliability, deployment performance and developer productivity to inform decisions.
• Technical stack: Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns, with strong platform engineering experience across Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability at enterprise scale.
• Standards & environment: Sound judgement balancing scale, resilience, security and speed in demanding, regulated, high-availability enterprise settings.
• Communication & leadership: Strong executive presence and communication skills, with experience shaping investment, vendor and operating model decisions, and a track record of building, mentoring and inspiring high-performing engineering teams including succession planning and leadership development.
• Education & certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information and Communications Technology, or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications are advantageous.

What may set you apart

• Domain Knowledge: Exposure to financial market infrastructure, including securities and derivatives trading, clearing, settlement, market operations, or exchange-related systems.

About SGX Group

SGX Group is one of the world's most trusted international marketplaces, known for its stability and openness. Anchored in Singapore, we enable price discovery, capital formation and risk management across asset classes, supported by resilient infrastructure and robust clearing. We convene issuers, investors and intermediaries to create and grow markets that stand the test of time. Find out more at www.SGXGroup.com.