Technical Lead

Saksoft Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Saksoft Pte Ltd in Singapore seeks a seasoned Technical Lead to act as the technical focal point for application delivery, collaborating with delivery vendors across the project lifecycle. The role includes reviewing designs for enterprise architecture and security, guiding vendor teams on architecture, patterns, and best practices, and overseeing releases and environment readiness.

You will drive technical governance, coordinate with project managers, architects, and QA, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
• 10+ years in IT delivering global/regional capabilities.
• Minimum 5 years as Technical Lead/Solution Architect/Lead Engineer.
• Experience in banking or financial services, customer onboarding domain preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical focal point for application delivery with vendors across the project lifecycle.
• Review and challenge solution designs to ensure alignment with architecture, security, and objectives.
• Provide technical leadership to vendor teams on architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and governance for development teams, ensuring quality, security, and performance.
• Coordinate with project managers, architects, infrastructure, testing teams, and vendors to deliver objectives.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and coordinate resolution of complex application issues across environments.
• Oversee release planning, deployment activities, and environment readiness.
• Ensure compliance with development, security, risk, and change management standards.

Skills

Java

Microservices

BPM

Spring Boot

Containerization

CI/CD

DevSecOps

API Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Job description

Experience: 10+ Years
Role: Technical Lead

Key Skills:
Java, Microservices, BPM,

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical focal point for application delivery, working closely with delivery vendors throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review and challenge proposed solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security standards, operational requirements, and project objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to vendor development teams on application architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and technical assessments to ensure solution quality, maintainability, security, and performance requirements are met.
• Support functional and non-functional requirement analysis, solution design reviews, and technical impact assessments.
• Work with project managers, architects, infrastructure teams, testing teams, and vendors to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and coordinate resolution of complex application issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Oversee application release planning, deployment activities, and environment readiness.
• Ensure compliance with organizational application development, security, risk, and change management standards.
• Review technical documentation including solution designs, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, interface specifications, and support documentation.
• Support system integration activities involving upstream and downstream applications.
• Participate in production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Assist in implementation planning, system cutover preparation, and post-implementation stabilization activities.

Key Requirements

The ideal candidate is astrong technology leader with deep architecture expertise, strong bankingdomain knowledge, and the ability to bridge business and technology teams. Thecandidate should be passionate about technology innovation, hands-on whenrequired, and capable of influencing technical decisions across multiplestakeholders.

Qualifications &Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similardomain related professional/technical qualification will be advantageousalthough not mandatory.
• More than 10 years’ experience in developing and deliveringglobal/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Technical Lead, SolutionArchitect, or Lead Engineer.
• Experience in banking or financial services, preferably withcustomer onboarding domain

Technical Competencies

• Experience with workflow and business automation platforms such as jBPM, Kogito, and Drools.
• Familiarity with BPMN 2.0 concepts and process modelling using bpmn.io.
• Strong experience in Java enterprise application development and technical solution delivery.
• Deep understanding of Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
• Good understanding of Spring Batch and enterprise batch processing concepts.
• Experience conducting code reviews and providing technical governance for development teams.
• Experience working with external vendors and managing technical delivery outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture, integration patterns, API design, and distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, integration, and performance issues.
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience with Linux.
• Good understanding of networking concepts, infrastructure architecture, and application security principles.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred / AdvantageousSkills

• Experience in reviewing or governing event-driven and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience with Red Hat JBoss EAP and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience with DevSecOps toolchains such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Nexus.
• Experience with Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.

Exposure to containerized and cloud-native application platforms