Vp, Lead Cloud Architect

Location: Singapore, SG- Job Function: Technology Group- Job Type: Permanent- Req ID: 15394GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

**Technology Group**
We experiment, design, and lead a 24×7 global business where we support core capabilities in asset management, trading, investment operations, and risk management. We deliver secure, reliable, and integrated solutions, and provide insights on new, and emerging technologies.

**Infrastructure & Platform Services Team**
You will help to build and sustain strong technology foundations forming the bedrock of GIC’s digital solutions.

**What impact can you make in this role?**
You'll be empowered to be at the top of your game by providing strategic partnership, and innovative technology solutions that supports GIC’s vision of being a tech-driven, global, long-term investment firm.

**What will you do as a VP, Lead Cloud Architect, Technology Group?**
- Lead product management, including research and proof-of-concept, for emerging cloud native services and platforms, for example, enterprise containerization, landing zones, Infrastructure-as-Code tools, AI/Generative AI cloud platforms and MLOps
- Define cloud reference architecture, standards, and processes within the enterprise, for example, provide opinionated landing zones that comprise a set of policies or rules to enforce a security baseline and prevent non-compliant activities
- Perform cloud governance role in disciplines like identity & access management, tenant/account management, security & compliance, and billing
- Provide common tooling, solutions, and patterns for cloud native adoption and developer enablement, productivity, and self-service; as part of platform development
- Provide education and learning opportunities to enable teams to understand existing and emerging cloud computing technologies, as part of overall cloud capabilities building
- Manage the implementation of opinionated set of technologies, on top of cloud service provider(s), to consolidate institutional knowledge, tooling, patterns and practices; and deployable artifacts to production
- Manage the provisioning of cloud services to developer teams based on pre-stipulated service level agreements
- Manage the maintenance of virtual appliances, for example, AMI, and base container images
- Manage cloud operations disciplines like patch management, network configuration, certificate management, logging agents, and intrusion detection
- Manage support vendor partnerships through regular vendor stewardship meetings and service level and escalation reporting

**What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?**
- At least 10 years of relevant experience in delivering multi cloud strategies, operating models, and technology service management practices
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
- Extensive return-on-investment and business case development experience
- Strong people leadership in directly and indirectly leading and managing technical resources, both internal (staff) and external (consultants, vendors)
- Proven experience in designing microservices, event driven architecture using open source,.NET, NodeJS, Python, Java, message queues, streaming, databases, and cloud data services
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies including, Docker, Kubernetes (particularly RedHat OpenShift), Infrastructure as Code, Service Mesh, Immutable Infrastructure, and declarative APIs
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Amazon CloudFormation, VMware vRealize Suite, HashiCorp Suite, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and DataDog
- Strong understanding of AGILE, LEAN or SaFE methodology
- Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, and security & compliance frameworks (e.g. NIST, CIS, CSM) and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies
- One or more AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications at Professional and/or Specialty level

**Work at the Point of Impact**
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

**GIC is a Great Place to Work**
At GIC, we believe sustainable high performance is driven by high expectati