Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Document Intelligence Platform)

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering (Document Intelligence Platform).

Business: AI Platforms

Job ID: 46918

Principal responsibilities

• Build a platform for Document Intelligence plaform to enable enterprise AI use cases, delivering standardised, robust, and scalable solutions that meet growing business demand.
• Design and implement scalable solutions to support AI services, workflows and platform capabilities end-to-end.
• Own architecture and technical governance by conducting design/architecture reviews and enforcing engineering standards, coding practices, documentation, and quality assurance.
• Lead the team with hands-on engineering experience to focus on API development, unit/integration testing, defect resolution, and partnering with QA on test cases and test data preparation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across systems (upstream/downstream) to define requirements and design effective, well-governed API interfaces.
• Strengthen DevOps and engineering processes to improve delivery and support efficiency while ensuring adherence to established standards.
• Deploy and scale on cloud platforms by leveraging GCP and Kubernetes to manage applications effectively in enterprise environments.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and compliance through monitoring, load/performance testing, optimisation, and incident response to maintain low latency, high throughput, and stable operations (including onsite/offsite production support).

Requirements

• Act as a senior tech lead with strong solution design and hands-on coding expertise, demonstrating excellent technical problem-solving as well as strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Hold a university degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Bring 10+ years of IT experience (preferably in enterprise application or platform development) with 6+ years’ hands-on proficiency in Java and Python for backend and platform engineering.
• 5+ years IT lead expeirence on in-house solution.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, micro-frontend architecture, and LLM new solutions a strong advantage.
• Experienced in leveraging coding assistants (e.g., AI pair-programming tools) to accelerate software development, enhance code quality, and support engineering best practices.

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