Lead Software Engineer

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia's leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose we over me. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Lead Software Engineer based in Kuala Lumpur.

The Role:

• Lead and mentor a team of developers (internal staff and external vendors) in delivering robust Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions aligned with business needs.
• Own the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of SSO applications, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Conduct technical presentations and discussions with Business and IT stakeholders to communicate design decisions, progress, and challenges.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to plan, prioritize, and manage project deliverables and BAU (Business-As-Usual) tasks effectively.
• Work closely with Business Analysts to validate business requirements and translate them into clear, actionable technical specifications.
• Ensure all technical and architectural documentation is comprehensive, accurate, and consistently updated.
• Oversee task distribution, resource allocation, and progress tracking within the technical team to ensure timely and quality delivery.

The Person:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in application development and delivery.
• Must have extensive knowledge and experience (at least 7 years) in implementing Single Sign-on solutions, 2FA (2nd Factor Authentication) integrations.
• Expertise in full stack development using technologies such as Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Proficient in Access Management, Identity Management, with a good knowledge of respective ecosystems.
• Solid understanding of OIDC (Open ID Direct Connect), OAuth, SAML2 frameworks.
• Experienced in Service-oriented architecture, RESTful web-service.
• Experience with one or more application servers such as IBM Websphere, Oracle Weblogic.
• Experience with Security products that provides SSO, Identity and Access Management solutions (eg. IBM Verify Identity Access, CA SSO, ForgeRock IAM, etc).
• Proficient and hand-on experience on LDAP (IBM Security Directory Service, OpenLDAP, etc).
• Proficient and hand-on experience on IBM DB2 and HADR setup.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment with minimum direction and management oversight.

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Location: Menara Great Eastern, Level 19, 303 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur.

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people's lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.