Full Time Director of Software Engineering Jobs, in Ambition - Maukerja

I am currently working on a senior technology leadership opportunity with an established organisation in Singapore.

This is an Executive Director-level role with broad responsibility for software engineering strategy, engineering transformation, platform resilience and technical leadership across multiple teams and technology domains.

The role will suit a senior engineering leader who enjoys working at an enterprise level while still having a strong understanding of modern engineering practices and technology.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Define and drive the enterprise software engineering strategy and operating model

• Shape software architecture and long-term platform strategy

• Drive improvements across software delivery, SDLC, quality engineering and automation

• Strengthen application security, operational resilience and service reliability

• Develop engineering standards, governance and best practices across teams

• Drive observability, production ownership and operational excellence

• Lead productivity initiatives through automation and AI

• Explore AI-native and agentic approaches to software engineering

• Build engineering capability through leadership development, mentoring and succession planning

• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders on strategic technology decisions

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive experience in senior software engineering, platform engineering or technology leadership

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams and senior technology leaders

• Strong background in enterprise architecture, distributed systems and modern software engineering

• Experience with microservices, service mesh and observability platforms

• Strong cloud experience across AWS EKS, Azure AKS and/or GCP GKE

• Strong understanding of SRE, incident management, resilience and capacity planning

• Experience operating in complex, high-availability or regulated environments

• Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, ICT or a related discipline

• Exposure to financial markets, trading, clearing, settlement or other market infrastructure would be advantageous