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This role sits within the IT team and focuses on establishing consistent engineering practices, operational standards, and lifecycle management for solutions developed and used by the business. Working closely with Business IT teams, the role ensures these solutions remain scalable, secure, and supportable as they grow in scope and usage, while assuming responsibility for enterprise-level data engineering and database administration, as well as the infrastructure services that underpin business systems. This position reports to the Head of IT Infrastructure in APAC.\nThrough this scope, the role plays a key part in strengthening enterprise governance, operational stability, and technical standards across business systems. 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