{"id":1249075,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gic-svp-data-platform-services-engineering-lead-technology-group","title":"SVP, Data Platform Services Engineering Lead, Technology Group","company":{"id":2761,"name":"GIC","domain":"gic.com.sg","url":"https://alion.io/company/gic","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":64000,"max_usd":162000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":133},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AIOps","optional":false},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Self-Healing","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SOAP","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-13T16:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-13","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T15:36:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":17,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":17},"description":"GIC 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.\nTechnology Group\nWe 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.\nInfrastructure & Cybersecurity Resilience (ICR)\n We design, build, and secure the technology foundations that power GIC’s global investment operations. We aim to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure that empowers our people and businesses to perform securely, efficiently, and effectively.\nWhat impact can you make in this role? \n\nThis role will be the strategic, technical, and engineering leader for all database, data-platforms, middleware, and web services across the global estate. Reporting into the Head of Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Engineering, this lead will define and drive the next-generation strategy for data, database, middleware, and web services: evolving legacy relational systems (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) while leading build, integration and migration to cloud-native, open-source, AI/agent-powered databases, data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, data mesh, etc.). The incumbent must combine deep technical credibility with visionary leadership and ability to partner with application, AI, analytics, and operations teams. Over the next 5 years, this role is expected to transform GIC's data infrastructure and middleware into differentiators for performance, scale, agility, and insight.\nWhat will you do as the Data Platform Services Engineering Lead?\nStrategic Leadership & Vision\nDevelop and own a multi-year roadmap covering databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.), data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, data lakes, data mesh), middleware (message brokers, application servers, API gateways), and web services.\nModernize monolithic, traditional systems toward cloud-native patterns, integrating streaming, operational analytics, and AI/ML readiness.\nIncorporate AI/AIOps for automated tuning, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and self-healing across data, middleware, and web services.\nOversee GIC’s SWIFT infrastructure and financial messaging evolution (e.g., ISO 20022), ensuring robust engineering, security, and regulatory compliance.\nEngineering Execution & Delivery\nLead globally distributed engineering teams responsible for building, integrating, and securing data/service layers.\nChampion DevOps/SRE best practices: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and robust observability.\nCollaborate with app development teams to minimize latency, provide consistent data, and integrate solutions into existing operational models.\nConduct technology evaluations, pilots, and vendor engagements (Snowflake, Databricks, open-source DBs, middleware tools) to drive innovation and resilience.\nSecurity & Compliance\nEmbed security, compliance, privacy, and audit requirements into the design from day one, ensuring regulatory and data residency mandates are met.\nImplement strong access control, encryption, vulnerability assessments, and continuous monitoring.\nMaintain consistent security baselines, leveraging automated checks and configuration management to prevent drift.\nGovernance & Collaboration\nServe as the global authority for database and middleware architecture governance, ensuring consistency across clouds and geographies.\nEngage with executive stakeholders to present strategy, trade-offs, budget needs, and progress.\nPartner with security, risk, compliance, and operations teams to ensure alignment on risk management and operational excellence.\nContribute thought leadership externally (conferences, forums) to enhance GIC’s presence in data and platform engineering.\nTalent & Culture\nFoster a collaborative, “automation-first,” and innovation-driven culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous learning.\nSet performance metrics (throughput, latency, cost efficiency, time to market) and empower teams to deliver on those KPIs.\nWhat qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?\nBachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.\n15+ years of progressive leadership managing global, cross-functional teams in database, data engineering, middleware, or platform engineering.\nProven track record migrating legacy relational systems to cloud-native/hybrid data platforms. Deep expertise in DB technologies (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.), data orchestration, analytics/AI tooling (Snowflake, Databricks), and advanced frameworks (AIOps for predictive/self-healing systems).\nCertified AWS Solutions Architect Associate (preferred Professional). Skilled in modern DevOps, SRE, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and advanced middleware/web services (message brokers, REST, SOAP, API gateways).\nSignificant experience with SWIFT infrastructure-engineering, security, regulatory standards, and operational best practices.\nStrong security background spanning authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability management. Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, load balancing, and HA for distributed systems.\nStrong business acumen with experience managing budgets, vendor contracts, and multi-region standardization.\nInnovative mindset, adept at championing organizational change and continuous improvement in large-scale, regulated environments.\nWork at the Point of Impact\nWe 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.\nGIC is a Great Place to Work\nAt GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.\nGIC is an equal opportunity employer\nAs an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance. 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