SVP, Software Engineer

Job Summary

The Senior Vice President, Software Engineering is a senior technology executive role responsible for shaping the engineering foundations of SGX. This leader defines the engineering strategy, platform direction, and technical standards that enable secure, resilient, and high-performing systems at enterprise scale. Operating across mission-critical environments, the role blends strategic leadership, modern engineering practices, and strong operational discipline to accelerate platform transformation, enhance developer productivity, and deliver measurable business value through technology.

SGX Ambition & Career Path:

This is a high-impact opportunity to lead engineering at meaningful scale, influence the future of enterprise platforms, and shape how modern software engineering is practised within one of Singapore’s most important market infrastructure organisations. The role is designed for a leader who is motivated by transformation, platform modernisation, and building engineering capability that delivers lasting enterprise value.

The position offers broad enterprise visibility, close engagement with senior leadership, and the opportunity to build modern platforms, high-performing teams, and engineering practices that strengthen SGX’s long-term resilience and competitiveness. For the right leader, it provides a strong pathway to broader enterprise technology leadership responsibilities, including larger-scale engineering, platform, architecture, or transformation portfolios.

Job Responsibilities

• Software Development: Define engineering direction, software development strategy and organisational development standards.
• Software Design: Define enterprise-wide software design principles and engineering architecture direction.
• Secure Software Development: Establish organisational software security strategy and governance.
• Testing & Quality Engineering: Define enterprise quality strategy and engineering quality objectives.
• System Integration: Define strategic integration architecture across the enterprise.
• SDLC & Delivery Excellence: Establish organisational engineering excellence strategy and delivery governance.
• Observability & Production Support: Help define organisational service ownership and operational excellence strategy.
• Automation & Productivity: Help define organisational productivity strategy and investment priorities.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Establish engineering culture, capability development and workforce strategy.
• Agentic AI Engineering: Help define the function approach for AI-native software engineering, including strategy, governance, adoption metrics, risk controls and investment priorities for agentic workflows across design, build, review, testing and operations in a regulated environment.
• Own engineering performance metrics across reliability, delivery velocity, developer productivity, and cost efficiency, using data-driven insights to continuously improve outcomes.
• Partner closely with business, technology, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate enterprise priorities into pragmatic engineering outcomes and investment decisions.

Job Requirements

• Experience: Extensive senior leadership experience in software engineering, platform engineering or enterprise technology within large, complex and highly available environments.
• Track record: Proven track record of establishing engineering standards, leading technical governance and driving platform modernisation and technical-debt-reduction programmes, using engineering metrics such as reliability, deployment performance and developer productivity to inform decisions.
• Technical stack: Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns, with strong platform engineering experience across Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability at enterprise scale.
• Standards & environment: Sound judgement balancing scale, resilience, security and speed in demanding, regulated, high-availability enterprise settings.
• Communication & leadership: Strong executive presence and communication skills, with experience shaping investment, vendor and operating model decisions, and a track record of building, mentoring and inspiring high-performing engineering teams including succession planning and leadership development.
• Education & certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information and Communications Technology, or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications are advantageous.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to financial market infrastructure, including securities and derivatives trading, clearing, settlement, market operations, or exchange-related systems.