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.

Strategic Leadership

KEY TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES

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
Restful APIs
Spring boot (Java)
JavaScript
ReactJS
Databases (Postgres)
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

Head of Digital Engineering, APAC