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We provide world-class distribution, digital, and commercial services to support the growing healthcare needs in this region.\nThe company was started a hundred years ago and has grown to become a multibillion-dollar business covering 17 markets with over 12,000 employees. Our people serve more than 200,000 medical facilities and work with over 450 clients, including the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world.\nPurpose of the Role:\nThe candidate will join Zuellig Pharma's Group Technology as a Principal Engineer within the E-commerce and Data Services (EDS) cluster. As the most senior individual contributor in the engineering organisation, you operate at org-wide scope - overseeing the FSO process and technical quality across all projects, while partnering directly with the Head of Engineering to establish team structures, engineering governance, and technical standards that scale across the Malaysia hub and beyond.\nYou are the senior technical voice in leadership discussions, bridging engineering execution with strategic direction. Your decisions set the long-horizon technical trajectory of Zuellig Pharma's digital commerce and supply chain platforms.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nFixed Scope Outsourcing (FSO) - Org-Wide Oversight\nOversee the FSO process at org-wide scope - setting BRD review standards, vendor evaluation frameworks, and integration quality gates that all squads follow.\nEnsure consistency, accountability, and technical rigour across all outsourced workstreams in the hub.\nReview and resolve escalations from Staff Engineers on complex FSO delivery, risk, or integration issues.\nTechnical Governance & Process Architecture\nPartner directly with the Head of Engineering to design team structures, engineering workflows, and technical governance frameworks for the Malaysia hub.\nEstablish and own org-wide engineering standards - coding standards, API design principles, testing requirements, release processes, and security baselines.\nDefine the platform and tooling strategy - evaluating, selecting, and retiring technologies at the org level.\nLead architecture review processes, ensuring major technical decisions are well-reasoned, documented, and aligned with long-term platform direction.\nStrategic Technical Leadership\nAct as the senior technical voice in leadership and product strategy discussions - translating business direction into technical roadmap and structural decisions.\nIdentify cross-cutting technical risks, capability gaps, and scaling challenges before they impact delivery, and own the remediation roadmap.\nContribute to hiring standards and levelling frameworks - defining what technical excellence looks like at each grade in the organisation.\nInfrastructure & Platform Strategy\nSet the org-wide infrastructure and platform direction - cloud architecture, Kubernetes fleet standards, IaC governance, and observability strategy.\nDrive platform engineering initiatives that improve developer productivity, reliability, and delivery velocity across all teams.\nOwn the cost efficiency and security posture of the engineering platform in collaboration with Operations and InfoSec.\nFull Stack Engineering & Mentorship\nProvide deep technical guidance across backend, frontend, and infrastructure domains - credible and hands-on across the full stack.\nMentor Staff and Senior Engineers, investing in their growth toward broader architectural and leadership responsibility.\nSet the example for AI-assisted development - driving adoption, defining best practices, and raising the team's capability with AI tooling.\nWhat will make you successful:\nMust-Have:\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a clear track record of org-level technical leadership.\nProven experience defining engineering standards, governance frameworks, and platform strategy at an organisational scale.\nExperience in regulated industries (pharmaceuticals, healthcare, fintech, or logistics) is a strong advantage.\nTechnical - Full Stack\nExpert-level proficiency in Golang is required. 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