Fuku
Head of Digital Engineering, APAC
Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Work style not stated · Full-time
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- EmployerFuku
- LocationKuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Work styleWork style not stated
- Employment typeFull-time
- Employer posted
* 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.
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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
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- Employment typeFull-time
- SeniorityLead / Principal
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