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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)\nWe design, build, and secure the technology foundations that power GIC’s global investment operations. 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The role is accountable for the architecture, engineering, and security compliance of all network and data-centre assets-on-premise, co-location, and multi-cloud-ensuring world-class availability, security, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.\nAs part of the Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Resilience senior leadership team, this executive will shape the our Network strategy, establish the design authority, and lead a distributed engineering organization delivering an AI-enabled, Zero-Trust network platform that underpins all GIC business workloads.\nStrategic Leadership\nDefine and execute the multi-year our Network strategy aligned with enterprise technology and business strategies.\nRepresent ICR at enterprise-level committees, translating technical strategy into risk-adjusted value outcomes.\nInfluence long-term investment, sustainability, and innovation priorities for the infrastructure domain.\nFocus on building security and stability within the engineered builds rather than as an afterthought. Work closely with the Global Command Centre (GCC) and SRE teams to enhance the security and stability posture for the Networks and Data Centre teams in GIC.\nArchitecture & Engineering\nChair the Network Design Authority; standardize architectures across SD-WAN, SASE/SSE, IPv6, ZTNA, private 5G edge, and other technologies.\nEstablish automation frameworks using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, GitHub, Ansible) and enforce policy-as-code for security and compliance.\nEmbed observability (AIOps, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and quantum-safe crypto standards.\nArchitect a \"Secure by Design\" and \"Reliable by Design\" global platform, incorporating Zero-Trust principles and SLO-based management.\nEstablish the technical vision for the future of end-user computing (Next-Gen Wi-Fi, Zero-Touch Deployment, Secure Access Service Edge - SASE).\nData Centre & Hybrid Cloud Fabric Engineering\nOversee global data-centre lifecycle: capacity, sustainability, colocation partnerships, and interconnect topology.\nDeliver low-latency, high-availability connectivity for trading, analytics, and enterprise systems.\nDevelop Blueprints & Engineered Packages: Create standardized, version-controlled blueprints (using IaC) for all infrastructure components, with embedded security, compliance, and observability baselines.\nEngineer for Self-Service: Build a golden-path platform that enables development teams to consume infrastructure through automated, self-service workflows, reducing friction and time-to-market.\nOperations & Resilience\nDeploy AIOps for predictive fault detection and closed-loop remediation, working closely with ITCC and SRE teams. Design systems where telemetry data from production automatically triggers improvements in the engineering blueprints and deployment pipelines (e.g., automatic capacity scaling, security patch deployment).\nRisk & Compliance\nIntegrate security engineering into delivery pipelines; maintain zero regulatory findings and aim for zero audit points.\nEnsure full compliance with MAS TRM, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS v4.0, SOX, GDPR.\nMaintain the Network RCSA and publish monthly KRI dashboards to the Board Risk Committee.\nPeople Leadership\nBuild and scale a global team of engineers, cultivating inclusion, performance discipline, and continuous learning.\nCoach emerging leaders; embed SLOs, post-mortems, and innovation sprints as team rituals.\nWhat qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering (required); Master’s preferred.\nMinimum 15 years of progressive experience in global network engineering.\nProven track record as Global Head / Director\nAdvanced knowledge of SD-WAN, SASE, BGP, IPv6, Zero Trust architecture, and multi-cloud interconnects.\nExperience in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools will be advantageous. (Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitLab CI).\nProfessional certifications: CCIE, CISSP, AWS/Azure Architect, TOGAF preferred.\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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