Technical Architect

Role Purpose Lead the establishment of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for the Gov Agency to unify and standardise DevSecOps and cloud operations across teams. Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders—aligning practices with organisational goals, reducing costs, ensuring compliance, and driving operational efficiency in a public sector context. Key Responsibilities Strategic Advisory Provide deep expertise on DevSecOps and cloud infrastructure best practices, guiding standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and secure cloud architecture. Discovery & Planning Conduct assessments of current application and platform setups; design modernisation roadmaps covering tooling, pipelines, environments, and operational models. Stakeholder Management Present options and trade offs to executive and delivery stakeholders; communicate business value and measurable outcomes effectively. Team Leadership Build and mentor the CoE; enable cross department adoption of common tooling, templates, guardrails, and ways of working. Hands on Enablement Run workshops and pairing sessions to implement new tools/practices (CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, observability, security checks, cost controls). Key Initiatives (First 6–9 Months) CI/CD Migration Transition build/release pipelines from Jenkins to Azure DevOps (ADO) with standardised templates, gated approvals, and integrated security scans. Operational Independence Design self sufficient operational models enabling product teams to build, release, and run services with clear guardrails and SLAs. Infrastructure Assessment Evaluate Azure landing zones and workloads for security, cost, and performance improvements; recommend remediation and automation. Shared Assets Develop reusable CI/CD templates, IaC modules, security/enforcement policies, and platform tools for organisation-wide adoption. Required Skills and Qualifications Technical Expertise Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), and cloud networking (Azure/AWS). Operations & Security Hands on experience with Day 2 operations, observability (logs, metrics, traces), secure cloud architecture, vulnerability management, and shift left security. Stakeholder Management Strong communication and presentation skills to influence diverse teams and senior stakeholders. Strategic Thinking Demonstrated ability to align technical decisions with broader business goals, value realisation, and operational excellence. Minimum Experience At least 7 years of IT delivery experience, including 3 years leading teams. Singapore GCC / WOG Experience (Highly Preferred) Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) familiarity across AWS/Azure tenants and WOG guardrails; understanding of GCC managed security capabilities (e.g., AWS Config, Security Hub enablement across regions) and cost/operational considerations for agencies. Experience working with Singapore Government platforms and toolchains—such as SHIP HATS 2.0 (DevSecOps tooling, onboarding, governance) and SGTS (Singapore Government Tech Stack) environments. Practical exposure to agency delivery contexts (e.g., transportation and citizen service domains) with structured DevSecOps design principles, release management, and governance. Preferred Experience Designing common pipeline templates for microservices, artefact/versioning strategies (tag vs branch based), and integrating API gateway deployment flows. Establishing Cloud/DevSecOps CoE operating models (roles, responsibilities, service catalogue, engagement model, enablement playbooks). Implementing cost governance (FinOps), environment standardisation, and platform SRE practices. Familiarity with public sector compliance expectations (data protection, secure SDLC, auditability) and enterprise change controls. #J-18808-Ljbffr