Director, Engineering Lead, Wrb Tech

Job ID: 38709

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 17 Sept 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- An experienced skilled technology expert who manages the technical delivery, works with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics and releases.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.
- Execute the Hive’s product vision with the Hive Leads.
- Collaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.
- Communicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.

**Business**
- Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
- Collaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.
- Proactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.
- Develop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.

**Technical Leadership**
- Influence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.
- Incorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.
- Align detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture and product/platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards.
- Support the squad in clearly slice the back log into independently shippable experience for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.
- Identify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.
- Accountable to work with technical counterparts to mitigate technical debt and balance risk, and regulatory items with new features, functionality, or changes to keep the cost of change low.
- Responsible to work in partnership with technology to ensure a balance of functional and non-functional requirements are represented in the backlog and that there is an approach to mitigate or avoid technical debt.
- Lead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.
- Act as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.
- Drive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments.

**Processes**
- Regularly reviews squad metrics in regard to Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.
- Work with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.

**People & Talent**
- Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives.

**Vendor Management**
- Collaborate with vendors to integrate vendor deliverables with internal systems and resolve any issues impacting delivery.
- Drive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.

**Governance**
- Oversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable.
- Design APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards.
- Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.
- Present Solutions to the architecture review forum.
- Align with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.
- Collaborate with Security Champions to identify and implement the necessary security controls tailored to the specific delivery or process.
- Identify Applicable Security controls by engaging with Security Champs
- Review and approve the chapter 1, 2 & 3 of the Solution Intent within the eSDLC framework before it proceeds to Domain or Country Architect approval.
- Comply with System Delivery controls and attest for it with every (technical) release to production.
- Complete comprehensive security impact assessments to ensure compliance with governance requirements and mitigate potential risks.
- Ensure compliance with bank compliance guidelines & standards (e.g., data protection), address tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the