Senior Director, Technology

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Date: 22 Apr 2024

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Company: Singtel Group

At Singtel, our mission is to Empower Every Generation. We are dedicated to fostering an equitable and forward-thinking work environment where our employees experience a strong sense of Belonging, to make meaningful Impact and Grow both personally and professionally. By joining Singtel, you will be part of a caring, inclusive and diverse workforce that creates positive impact and a sustainable future for all.

 

 

Be a Part of Something BIG!

 

We are seeking for a Senior Director – Technology for Enterprise Platforms business under Singtel DigitalInfraCo, to lead the software development and delivery of Enterprise Platforms to help telcos to accelerate monetization of networks and clouds. The candidate will have a great opportunity to work with global telcos and enterprises in designing the solution architecture to make successful global deployments of Enterprise platforms. The role will report to the Head of Enterprise Platforms and will lead a team of developers, DevOps and architects to deliver the Enterprise platforms roadmap.

 

Singtel is building a unique Enterprise platform completely homegrown and in this position you will be lead the platform engineering and delivery team.

 

Make an Impact by

  • Build Enterprise platforms in a completely scalable fashion that can process millions of messages and customer transactions concurrently.
  • Build a hybrid infrastructure that comprises of different types of deployment including baremetal and hyper scalar infrastructure.
  • Design the architecture and lead the software development of the platform in an infrastructure agnostic fashion so that the platform can work with any backend tool/product/platform in a plug and play fashion.
  • Bring in your experience in building scalable and repeatable platforms to make every component of the platform modular by design with industry grade security.
  • Design and implement RESTful APIs to expose platform features as microservices.
  • Build and deploy performant modern web applications in React, Redux, Webpack, ES6 or similar technologies
  • Architect efficient and scalable backend systems
  • Automate the testing process for every new release of the platform with end to end unit, functional, integration, load and security tests for the platform
  • Write and ensure the code is high-quality (Python, Go, Java etc) that communicates with upstream backend services via HTTP APIs and mentor all developers and architects in the team to write industry grade software code with all best practises.
  • Be accountable for the entire source code that goes in production and lead code reviews and design reviews to identify platform defects early on and validate platform design incrementally.
  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues of the platform
  • Lead all code reviews and solution design reviews.
  • Lead the solution architect team to work closely with CTO’s of customers to design a 5G solution architecture that suits the customers IT and security design.
  • Lead software development and associated new technology selection and adoption. Focus areas include developing API driven features on big data, machine learning, auto scaling micro-services, scalable data storage/retrieval.
  • Adopt industry standard coding practises to lead the development team with strict enforcement of best practises to develop the platform to ensure scalability, security and stability
  • Collaborate with product management and Business development teams to develop roadmap that meets market demands.
  • Lead partnership conversations from technology perspective and due diligence.
  • Build a world class engineering team and lead by example in practising best practises of software development.

 

 

Skills for Success

 

 

  • In depth understanding of the whole web stack, web protocols, and web performance optimisation techniques
  • In-depth understanding of web frameworks
  • Detailed knowledge of minimum one modern JavaScript framework: React, Ember, Angular, etc
  • Proficient understanding of the HTTP protocol
  • In depth knowledge of Relational, No-SQL databases, and message queues/brokers
  • Understand at least one backend MVC framework - Java and Spring Boot are strongly preferred
  • Build micro-services and understand different patterns to approach the designs.
  • Worked on cloud platforms and in depth understanding tools such as Kubernetes, Docker.
  • Experience in designing and delivering APIs and security models
  • Excellent understanding of
    • Message queue systems
    • Monitoring and logging tools
    • Front-end frameworks
    • Web app frameworks
    • Databases and storage/caching

 

Backend Programming Language                                   Java (J2EE and J2SE 1.8 or higher) , Python or similar

Front End Programming Language                                 HTML, CSS, React, Bootstrap, Angular, JQuery or similar

Database Technologies                                                  Cassandra or MongoDB  or Elasticsearch (At least 2). SQL databases like Postgres, MySQL

Source code Management and Build                             GIT, Maven, Ant  or similar

Scrum/Task Management                                              JIRA, Confluence or similar

Messaging                                                                      Kafka, Any Pub/Sub library

Dev Ops & Containerization                                           Docker, Jenkins or similar

Scalable deployment                                                      Kubernetes

Integration methods                                                      REST API’s, messaging, WSDL, SDK’s

API Documentation                                                        Swagger or similar

 

  • Experience leading development of complex, enterprise grade, configurable, scalable software platforms which can scale regionally globally.
  • A solid background in systems level thinking and design. Combined with the ability to translate technical strategy and architectures into concrete products with phased execution approach.
  • Broad and deep knowledge of relevant technologies, including messaging, relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling and analytics. Exposure and knowledge on Artificial intelligence will be a plus. 
  • Deep understanding of the architectural principles for cloud based platforms that include SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, infrastructure as code, and continuous availability.
  • Experience working and managing an agile software engineering team
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across various cross-functional teams and groups.

 

 

Rewards that Go Beyond

 

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Full suite of health and wellness benefits 
  • Ongoing training and development programs 
  • Internal mobility opportunities

 

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We are committed to a safe and healthy environment for our employees & customers and will require all prospective employees to be fully vaccinated.