Vp/svp, Software Engineer, Data Strategy Group

**Location**:Singapore, SG

**Job Function**:Data Strategy Group

**Job Type**:Permanent

**Req ID**:16274
- GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 offices 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.

**Data Strategy Group**
We build our data architecture in a robust operational environment with scale and efficiency. Data is meaningful in a functional, discoverable, and accessible format to power GIC’s innovative investment strategies.

**Data Engineering & Analytics, Data Strategy Group**
- Data Strategy Group (DSG) harnesses and leverages on one of GIC’s most valuable assets - Data, to drive insights, results and solve real business challenges. We ingest, analyse, and combine data with context across all industries and asset classes to enable investment decisions and enhance investment process. Together, we strive to build a high-performance enterprise data infrastructure, create results-driven approach with data products and strive to be a data-driven organization.

**What impact and exposure opportunities come with this role?**
- You will be empowered to be at the top of your game by providing strategic partnership, and lead enterprise technology solutions to power critical investment data & analytics in GIC’s vision of being a tech-driven, global, long-term investment firm.

**What will you do in this role?**
- Be part of an ambitious team that provides investment data services for enterprise activities. You can make a difference in our forward-looking journey to shape our world of investments.
- Play a pivotal role in building and supporting enterprise investment data & analytics systems consumed by investment professionals and platforms across the firm. You will also develop and maintain relationships with business leaders, product management and technical teams to understand priorities and expected business outcomes.
- Develop business solutions using your strong analytical skills, and help the team bring technology value directly to the business. You will also be exposed to key investment processes across the firm, learning valuable business domain knowledge.
- Drive software delivery for fast-moving agile projects with modern DevSecOps practices (e.g. Github, Jfrog, Jira) and data technologies (eg. Python, Snowflake/Databricks, DBT, Airflow). You will also work with external experts and solution architects on with AWS cloud native technologies.
- Actively provide technical leadership, direction and mentorship to raise the quality bar for engineering talent - attracting, retaining, and improving the best developers in the industry.
- Become an excellent team player with a collaborative mind-set, you will work directly with investment and technology professionals at different levels. You will also work alongside experienced professionals across our extended Technology team in GIC as well as have exchanges with other industry partners.

Join us if you have a passion for data and want to be part of a team in building and developing GIC’s data foundation and infrastructure
- 12 or more years of relevant technology experience preferably in financial risk services or asset management industries, including 5-8 years of experience in leading and managing software development teams to deliver impactful outcomes
- Demonstrates strong people leadership experience to connect with the needs and growth of software engineers and guide hands-on development to demonstrate their mentorship and connectedness with the everyday needs of developers
- Track record of engage with business stakeholders in all functions and levels. Ability to collaborate and influence cross-department business and technical partners to contribute to the development of technical strategies
- Earns high advocacy and loyalty from teams through strong managerial competence, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and high performance, and has willingness to learn with attention to detail, demonstrating a strong passion in technology and/or finance
- Practical experience in the use of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban for project delivery
- Good presentation skills, and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, effectively translating complex technical concepts into business terms
- Extensive engineering experience in the following:

- AWS services such as Glue/Batch, S3, SQS, SNS, EKS, etc
- SQL and/or relational database - Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake
- Data transformational tools - Python/Pandas/DBT/PySpark
- Java / (C#.NET Core), and/or similar OOP frameworks
- Docker / Kubernetes / Github workflow, and/or other devops capabilities
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Scie