SVP - Software Engineer

SGX Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

SGX Group in Singapore seeks a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to shape engineering foundations, define strategy, and set standards for enterprise-scale systems powering markets.

This leadership role partners with business and risk stakeholders to drive platform modernisation, boost developer productivity, and deliver measurable business value through secure, high-availability technology.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience in software or enterprise technology within large, highly available environments.
• Proven track record of establishing engineering standards and driving platform modernisation with measurable outcomes.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns (Kubernetes, IaC, observability).
• Sound judgement balancing scale, security and speed in regulated enterprise settings.
• Strong executive communication and leadership, with experience shaping investment and operating models.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; postgraduate qualifications beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering direction, software design principles and architecture strategy.
• Establish organisational software security strategy and governance.
• Define quality strategy and engineering metrics to drive delivery excellence.
• Set strategic integration architecture across the enterprise.
• Own engineering performance metrics: reliability, velocity, productivity and cost efficiency.
• Lead and mentor high-performing engineering teams and foster succession planning.
• Partner with business, risk and operations to translate priorities into engineering investments.

Skills

Senior leadership

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD / IaC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

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, Software Engineering is a senior technology executive role responsible for shaping the engineering foundations of SGX. This leader defines the engineering strategy, platform direction, and technical standards that enable secure, resilient, and high-performing systems at enterprise scale. Operating across mission-critical environments, the role blends strategic leadership, modern engineering practices, and strong operational discipline to accelerate platform transformation, enhance developer productivity, and deliver measurable business value through technology.

SGX Ambition & Career Path:

This is a high-impact opportunity to lead engineering at meaningful scale, influence the future of enterprise platforms, and shape how modern software engineering is practised within one of Singapore’s most important market infrastructure organisations. The role is designed for a leader who is motivated by transformation, platform modernisation, and building engineering capability that delivers lasting enterprise value.

The position offers broad enterprise visibility, close engagement with senior leadership, and the opportunity to build modern platforms, high-performing teams, and engineering practices that strengthen SGX’s long-term resilience and competitiveness. For the right leader, it provides a strong pathway to broader enterprise technology leadership responsibilities, including larger-scale engineering, platform, architecture, or transformation portfolios.

The Software Engineering team

Software Engineering builds, runs and evolves the applications and platforms behind SGX Group's business and market infrastructure.

The team works closely with product, architecture, platform, security and delivery colleagues to turn business priorities into secure, resilient and scalable services. Its remit spans the full engineering lifecycle, from technical design and delivery through to production ownership and continuous improvement.

Our next phase is about strengthening engineering ownership, modernising platforms and practices and building consistency across teams without flattening the different needs of each business domain.

What you will do

• Software Development: Define engineering direction, software development strategy and organisational development standards.
• Software Design: Define enterprise-wide software design principles and engineering architecture direction.
• Secure Software Development: Establish organisational software security strategy and governance.
• Testing & Quality Engineering: Define enterprise quality strategy and engineering quality objectives.
• System Integration: Define strategic integration architecture across the enterprise.
• SDLC & Delivery Excellence: Establish organisational engineering excellence strategy and delivery governance.
• Observability & Production Support: Help define organisational service ownership and operational excellence strategy.
• Automation & Productivity: Help define organisational productivity strategy and investment priorities.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Establish engineering culture, capability development and workforce strategy.
• Agentic AI Engineering: Help define the function approach for AI-native software engineering, including strategy, governance, adoption metrics, risk controls and investment priorities for agentic workflows across design, build, review, testing and operations in a regulated environment.
• Own engineering performance metrics across reliability, delivery velocity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency, using data-driven insights to continuously improve outcomes.
• Partner closely with business, technology, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate enterprise priorities into pragmatic engineering outcomes and investment decisions.

What we are looking for

Essentials

• Experience:Extensive senior leadership experience in software 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 technical-debt-reduction 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

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

Why this role matters

• You will work on technology that underpins critical market infrastructure, where engineering decisions have direct consequences for the business, its customers and the markets it serves. Not many engineering roles carry that weight.
• The mandate is real. You will shape how platforms are engineered, owned and evolved, and what software engineering becomes at SGX Group. The work is demanding and the organisation is still changing, which is exactly where the opportunity sits. There are not many chances in a career to build something that outlasts you.

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.