Head of Digital Engineering, APAC

• * Global talent welcome: Candidates based outside Malaysia are encouraged to apply.
• * Tech + business leader: Challenge the status quo and turn technology into business impact.
• * Startup mindset: Move fast, stay hands-on, experiment, and build for scale.

Our client is a a leading global insurance organization providing a broad range of insurance and risk management solutions to individuals, businesses, and corporate clients. With a strong international presence, the organization is committed to helping customers manage risk, protect their assets, and build a more resilient future. It combines industry expertise, innovative solutions, and a strong focus on sustainability and customer needs, offering employees opportunities to grow, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact.

> Overall responsibility for IT development, engineering delivery, and production operations across the organization.

KEY TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Strategic Leadership:
• • Own the end-to-end IT application development and smooth production running.
• • Drive identification and adoption of best practices, tools and frameworks for development & operations • Ensure design and development are always focused on strategic short term and long-term business objectives.
• • Create approaches and plans for the SaaS agenda for the digital insurance platform, with a strong focus on reuse, scalability, and optimized delivery
• Technical Excellence:
• • Drive speed to market with delivery of initiatives.
• • Own the execution of the SaaS agenda • Convert strategy to action by developing and maintaining a robust technical design and adherence to design during build.
• • Drive business focus and urgency within the development teams.
• • Ensure technical teams are staying current with emerging and newer technologies.
• • Drive implementation of robust engineering and DevOps practices and tools for frequent multi-country deployments.
• • Ensure Information security requirements are constantly considered are implemented during design and build.
• • Ensure identification and robust implementation of best practices for production monitoring, observability and alerting. Including proactively identifying problem areas and addressing.

EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS

• • Senior stakeholder engagement and influence • Prior experience with leading a team of developers • Passion for technology.
• • In depth technical understanding of multiple technologies o Restful APIs o Spring boot (Java) o JavaScript o ReactJS o Databases (Postgres) o Cloud – AWS, docker containers etc • Ability to document and communicate technical design to developers • Ability to review code • Ability to review technical frameworks, libraries, tools and products. Including being able to do Poof of concepts before decision to adopt.
• • DevOps and Agile delivery experience • Technology qualifications and relevant certifications