Section Head, API & Microservices

AIA Singapore Private Limited

in Singapore

Permanent, Full time

Section Head, API & Microservices

Bring your career aspirations to life with AIA!

Responsible for providing leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.
• Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best patterns and our architectural target state.
• Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.
• Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables.
• Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring of direct reports.
• Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating and mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.
• Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components
• Guiding developers in day to day design and coding tasks, stepping in to code if needed.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

• Qualifications
• Bachelors or Master's Degree, preferably in Computer Science with 12+ years of experience
• Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security
• Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management needs.
• Significant experience building enterprise class applications using Java and Spring boot technologies and/or Mean Stack
• Experience building Enterprise Restful web services
• Ability to guide user interface development teams with Angular
• Experience in technologies such as NoSQL
• Experience with distributed computing, microservices and high volume transaction processing is a big plus
• Experience with service orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nomad etc. is a plus
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these across teams.
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally.
• 5+ years of people management experience in agile software development
• Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced work environment

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