Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

• Provide technical consultation to development team members with guidance of department principles.
• Lead teams or projects of high complexity.
• Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified business requirements.
• Provide technical analysis and solutions to business issues, provide consultation, research and implement technical alternatives, and maintain awareness of business technology strategies.
• Be responsible for user requirement gathering, detailed requirement documentation by working closely with project stakeholders including IT and business users.
• Ensure business needs can be translated into executable artefacts for the development team.
• Work closely with stakeholders, architects, and a variety of end-users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Work with the development team to clarify user requirements, conduct system testing, prepare test plans and test cases.
• Work with business users on UAT execution, defects follow-up with the application development team.
• Design, code, and debug modernised applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based solutions utilising either open-sourced technologies or cloud-native services.

Requirements and qualifications:

• University degree (or above) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Demonstrable 10 years of commercial experience in developing software, applications, or solutions for large-scale systems, ideally with Java/Spring.
• Good experience in cloud-native technologies, including but not limited to those popular ones on GCP, AWS, AliCloud.
• Experience on GCP is desirable but not essential.
• Good understanding and knowledge of microservice design patterns, proven experience designing independently deployable microservices, applying fault-tolerance patterns, backward-compatible APIs and database migrations, and reliable event-driven messaging.
• Good hands-on experience in multiple languages and technologies, including but not limited to Java, Spring Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache Beam, Spark/Flink, and more.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, canary or blue-green deployments, automated rollback, observability, and resilience testing, with strong ownership of incident response and operational readiness.
• Experience of SOLID coding principles and proven experience of applying clean code principles into daily development work.