Hive Lead

Job ID: 32163

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 8 Jul 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**-
- Collaborating with Domain Tech Leads, Engineering Leads, Architects, and leading a team of Product Owners, the Hive Lead guides a culture of agility, empowerment, and continuous innovation. This person champions long-term stability, user-focused design, and value-driven roadmaps—while embedding regulatory and risk considerations as natural aspects of the development process. The role also requires close adherence to the Enterprise Software Delivery Lifecycle (ESDLC), referencing relevant PO R&R documents and aligning with Clarity, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Confluence for planning and governance.**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Shape and Communicate Platform Vision**
- Establish a multi-year strategic roadmap, blending market insights, business needs, and technical innovation to position the platform for future success.
- Evangelise this roadmap with domain and squad leaders, ensuring wide alignment and clear understanding of why, how and when the platform will evolve.

**Align with Enterprise Objectives**
- Ensure platform initiatives directly support major WRB outcomes and domain-level OKRs.
- Champion a data-driven approach to prioritisation, incorporating both functional milestones and non-functional imperatives (e.g., security, scalability, performance).

**Set Balanced Strategic Priorities & KPIs**
- Drive adoption of measurable metrics (e.g., developer adoption, cost savings, time-to-market improvements) to improve the platform’s success.
- Proactively integrate technical debt reduction and compliance items into these priorities, balancing new feature delivery with foundational stability.

**Promote Scalability & Sustainable Growth**
- Collaborate with Domain Tech Leads and Architects to embed performance, reliability, and risk controls at the architecture level.
- Manage trade-offs between rapid feature deployment and the long-term viability of the platform ecosystem.

**Strategy**
- Work with DTL on the strategies and work towards delivery

**Business**

**Champion Stakeholder Needs**
- Continuously advocate for Journeys/Platforms and other Hive stakeholders, translating their feedback into the unified backlog for the Hive.
- Build transparent relationships with Journeys to ensure each domain’s objectives are reflected in the platform’s evolution.

**Unified Backlog Ownership**
- Maintain a single backlog that captures stream aligned journey roadmaps, business-driven features, technical enablers, and compliance/risk work.
- Balance urgent demands against strategic investments, reflecting the right mix of short-term wins and long-term capabilities.

**Value-Driven Delivery & Communication**
- Provide real-time visibility into backlog status, upcoming releases, and risk items through lifecycle tools like Clarity, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Confluence.
- Host regular reviews showcasing platform increments (e.g., new integrations, improved APIs), inviting cross-domain feedback to refine direction.

**Foster Cross-Domain and Cross-Hive Synergy**
- Identify reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate outcomes across multiple hives.
- Collaborate with domain owners to avoid siloed development and ensure a consistent user experience where platform services are leveraged.

**Processes**

**Adopt & Embed eSDLC (Enterprise Software Delivery Lifecycle) Standards**
- Ensure all platform lifecycles (e.g., ideation dev test deploy monitor) align with ESDLC and organisational governance frameworks.
- Reference the eSDLC PO R&R document where appropriate, reinforcing best practices for backlog management, quality gates, and audit readiness.

**Champion Big Room Planning & Directional Scrums**
- Lead and actively participate in quarterly and directional planning sessions, enabling squads, chapters, and domain stakeholders to align on objectives.
- Encourage open dialogue, autonomy, and continuous improvement, using these forums to address dependencies and realign priorities swiftly.

**DevOps & Continuous Process Optimisation**
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, automated testing), ensuring fast, reliable releases with mínimal manual overhead.
- Collect feedback from squads, domain leads, and external partners, feeding into retrospective loops and iterative improvements.

**Regulatory & Security Integration**
- Embed secure-by-design, privacy-by-design principles from the earliest phases of solutioning collaborating with Architects.
- Maintain audit trails and compliance documentation, minimising rework or bureaucratic bottlenecks while staying fully audit ready.

**People & Talent**

**Lead & Empower Squads**
- Nurture a psychologically safe environment, empowering squads to self-organise, innovate, and experiment with new approaches—within strategic guardrails.
- Provide squads with clarity on how their work contrib