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FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828.\nFor more information, please visit www.fwd.com\nPURPOSE\nFWD’s Group Digital Team are responsible for designing and developing digital platforms for regional markets within FWD. The team builds new apps, services and features to drive business value. We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who is passionate to change the way people feel about insurance.\nThe Director, Digital Platforms Delivery plays a pivotal role in driving the successful technical design, delivery, and adoption of FWD’s group digital platforms - including core agency, bancassurance, and customer-facing ecosystems FWD Cube, and other next-generation digital solutions.\nThis role ensures the timely delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms across FWD’s markets, enabling local execution and consistent digital experiences. The Director will lead cross-market delivery squads, define platform delivery standards, and ensure the right balance between innovation, reliability, and speed-to-market.\nKEY ACCOUNTAIBILITIES\nLead end-to-end digital platform delivery for FWD Cube across key markets, ensuring alignment with Group’s Digital and technology strategy.\nTranslate business priorities into actionable digital delivery roadmaps and platform capability releases.\nOversee project portfolio governance, ensuring transparency, risk mitigation, and budget adherence.\nDrive agile delivery excellence, ensuring squads are operating with disciplined sprint planning, velocity tracking, and iterative release management.\nEnsure platforms are designed to support scalability, reliability and efficient maintainability\nEnsure co-ordinated design, development and deployment plans with business functions and technology solutions delivery teams\nLead multiple cross-functional delivery teams practicing agile\nProvide technology leadership and expertise when defining architectures and selecting tools and technologies\nEnsure software development standards are defined and being followed\nMobile and server-side development\nBuild and lead a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivery organization spanning engineering, product, QA, and DevOps.\nCoach and mentor senior engineering and delivery managers to elevate technical acumen and delivery discipline.\nPromote a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement within the delivery community.\nQUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE\nDegree in Computer Science or relevant degree\nBroad technical experience and a deep interest in current and new technologies, cloud hosting, code development and delivery practices\nExperienced at managing development team\nExperience of acting within mature ITIL and agile processes. A proven ability to implement and/or improve existing processes\nSolid software development experience in large scale and mission critical system\nExcellent verbal and written communication\nExpertise in building secure, scalable RESTFul web services\nExperience with agile development methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD\nKNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS\n 12 years + of full stack software development experience\nFamiliarity with modern programming languages\nPassionate about developing fast and reliable APIs\nInterested in learning new coding languages\nExperience in Node.JS, React JS, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, Java preferred\nAWS or GCP experiences are advantageous","description_format":"text","description_chars":3935,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Media","Financial Services","Wealth Management","FinTech"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T12:52:14Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:9","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T02:14:04Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fwd-director-group-digital-platforms-delivery","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fwd-director-group-digital-platforms-delivery.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T02:14:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2328,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2672,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}