About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Vice President (SVP), Chief Architect & Head of Core Development to lead the design, evolution, and delivery of the company's core technology platforms. This role will serve as the highest technical authority within the engineering organization, responsible for defining enterprise architecture, driving engineering excellence, and leading the development of mission-critical financial infrastructure that powers our payments, digital assets, treasury, card, lending, and embedded finance businesses.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership capabilities and has successfully built and scaled high-performance financial systems in fintech, banking, payments, or digital asset environments.

Reporting directly to the CTO, this individual will oversee architecture governance, core platform engineering, technical strategy, and engineering execution across multiple product domains.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Define and maintain the company's enterprise technology architecture and technical standards.
• Establish long-term architecture roadmaps aligned with business growth, regulatory requirements, and scalability objectives.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance processes across all engineering teams.
• Drive modernization initiatives and technology transformation programs.
• Ensure platform interoperability, extensibility, resilience, and maintainability.

Core Platform Development

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of the company's core financial infrastructure, including:Payment processing platformsCross-border remittance systemsCard issuing and acquiring platformsDigital asset infrastructureTreasury and liquidity management systemsCustomer account and ledger platformsSettlement and reconciliation enginesCompliance and risk management systemsAPI and embedded finance platforms
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise-grade requirements for availability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Drive the evolution toward modular, API-first, cloud-native architecture.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Act as the company's principal technology expert and architecture authority.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and data teams.
• Establish engineering standards, coding frameworks, and software development best practices.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and solution evaluations.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Distributed Systems & Platform Scalability

• Design highly scalable distributed systems capable of supporting millions of transactions and customers.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of:Microservices architectureEvent-driven systemsDomain-driven designCloud-native technologiesDevSecOps practicesHigh-availability and disaster recovery frameworks
• Ensure systems meet stringent SLAs and operational requirements.

Regulatory & Security Architecture

• Partner closely with Compliance, Risk, and Security teams to ensure regulatory readiness.
• Architect solutions that support:AML/CFT controlsTransaction monitoringKYC/KYB infrastructureAudit and reporting requirementsData privacy regulationsCybersecurity standards
• Ensure technology platforms are designed to support current and future licensing requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

Engineering Organization Leadership

• Lead and mentor senior engineering managers, architects, and technical leads.
• Build strong architecture and engineering leadership capabilities across the organization.
• Establish career development frameworks and technical leadership pathways.
• Drive hiring and development of top-tier engineering talent.
• Foster collaboration across product, engineering, operations, and business teams.

Innovation & Technology Strategy

• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess applicability to business objectives.
• Drive adoption of AI, automation, data platforms, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and strategic technology investments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology opportunities and risks.

Requirements

Experience

• 15+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
• 8+ years leading large-scale engineering organizations and architecture teams.
• Proven experience designing and delivering mission-critical financial systems.
• Strong track record in fintech, banking, payments, capital markets, digital assets, or financial infrastructure organizations.
• Experience managing engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale platform modernization and transformation initiatives.

Technical Expertise

Architecture & Engineering

• Deep expertise in:Distributed systems architectureEvent-driven architecturesService-oriented and microservices platformsAPI gateway and integration architectureHigh-performance transaction systemsReal-time processing platformsMulti-tenant SaaS architecture

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Extensive experience with:AWS, Azure, or GCPKubernetes and container orchestrationCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure-as-CodeObservability and monitoring platformsSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Data & Security

• Strong understanding of:Enterprise data architectureData governance and analyticsSecurity architectureEncryption and key managementIdentity and access managementRegulatory compliance frameworks

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Cross-border payments
• Card issuing and acquiring
• Digital assets and blockchain infrastructure
• Banking core systems
• Treasury and liquidity management
• Lending platforms
• Embedded finance
• RegTech and compliance systems

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic technology vision
• Strong architectural judgment
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Commercial and business-oriented mindset
• Ability to balance innovation with operational excellence

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Platform availability and reliability
• Engineering delivery velocity
• Architecture governance compliance
• Technical debt reduction
• Infrastructure scalability and performance
• Security and audit outcomes
• System cost optimization
• Engineering talent retention and development
• Successful launch of strategic platform initiatives

Reporting Structure

Reports To

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Direct Reports

• Principal Architects
• Engineering Directors
• Core Platform Engineering Managers
• Architecture Governance Team
• Technical Program Managers

Organization Coverage

• Enterprise Architecture
• Core Platform Engineering
• Payments Infrastructure
• Digital Asset Infrastructure
• API Platform
• Shared Services Engineering
• Engineering Excellence & Standards

Why This Role Matters

This role serves as the technical backbone of the organization, ensuring that the company's financial infrastructure remains scalable, secure, resilient, and capable of supporting future growth across multiple regulated businesses. The SVP, Chief Architect & Head of Core Development will be instrumental in shaping the next generation of our technology platform while building a world-class engineering organization capable of competing on a global stage.

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Solution Architect with a strong background in the financial industry to lead the design, evaluation, and delivery of technical solution architectures for enterprise-level projects. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, stakeholder management, and hands-on architecture expertise across systems integration, cloud, and banking technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the conceptualization and delivery of solution architectures aligned with project requirements and enterprise IT strategy.
• Participate in vendor, product, and technology evaluation and selection.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, SMEs, and product vendors to ensure solutions align with IT standards and project objectives.
• Act as the bridge between enterprise architecture and technical delivery teams.
• Provide technical leadership in evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and platform capabilities.
• Mentor technical teams on architecture principles and design patterns.
• Develop, review, and maintain solution architecture documentation.
• Lead solution discussions with SMEs, domain architects, and vendors to finalize end-to-end architecture design.
• Validate solution design with business analysts and functional architects against business and non-functional requirements.
• Communicate and gain buy-in for solutions with IT management and enterprise boards.
• Research and innovate to stay current with industry and technology trends.
• Apply knowledge of financial industry risks, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience in the financial industry, including 7+ years in solution architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in system and project implementation lifecycle within banking.
• Proven experience in designing scalable, resilient, and secure architectures integrating channels, systems, middleware, and data warehouses.
• Experience with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product integration and cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of enterprise application integration, microservices architecture, and cloud computing.
• Exposure to system and network infrastructure is a plus.
• Experience with application modernization, migration strategies, and tools.
• Broad knowledge of banking technologies and trends.
• Familiar with DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and programming (Java/.NET).
• Hands-on expertise with Oracle and MS-SQL databases.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services (APIM, Function App, Logic Apps, Azure SQL DB).
• Familiarity with RedHat OpenShift and monitoring tools like IBM Instana.
• Strong background in middleware technologies (IBM MQ, IWA, MFT).
• Domain experience in at least one of the following:Payments
  Customer onboarding & AML
  Digital workflow
  Data warehouse & analytics
  
• Certifications in TOGAF, Cloud Solution Architecture, or equivalent are highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, analytical thinking, and attention to detail.

Interested candidates please email your latest resume to subagio@tangspac.com

Singapore Post is undertaking a clean-slate transformation of its core technology platforms to build a resilient, production-grade digital backbone for national logistics infrastructure. This initiative goes beyond incremental modernization and represents a foundational architectural reset across enterprise platforms and infrastructure.

We are seeking a Chief Architect to take end-to-end ownership of enterprise and platform architecture across the Group. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining how SingPost designs, builds, operates, and evolves technology over the next decade. The role is deeply technical, infra-first, and failure-driven, with direct accountability for real-world system behavior under load, failure, and regulatory scrutiny.

This is not an advisory or diagram-only role. The Chief Architect will make and own architectural decisions that underpin systems processing approximately 400,000 parcels per day, across postal, logistics, e-commerce, and cross-border operations with highly variable traffic patterns.

Enterprise and Platform Architecture Ownership

• Define and own enterprise-wide system, service, and platform architecture across Singapore Post Group.

• Establish domain-aligned service boundaries with clear ownership and accountability.

• Design architectures that explicitly manage failure domains, blast radius, and operational risk.

• Make deliberate, context-driven decisions on microservices, coarse-grained services, or monolithic architectures based on reliability, simplicity, and operability.
   

Integration and Event-Driven Design

• Lead API-first integration strategies with explicit versioning, compatibility, and deprecation policies.

• Design and govern resilient event-driven systems, including:

  • Back-pressure and flow control mechanisms

  • Idempotency and replay semantics

  • Ordering guarantees and trade-offs

  • Poison message handling and dead-letter strategies

• Replace brittle point-to-point integrations with robust, scalable integration patterns.
   

Infrastructure and Runtime Architecture

• Architect container orchestration and workload scheduling behavior.

• Design for resource isolation, CPU and memory contention, and noisy-neighbor mitigation.

• Define networking models including ingress/egress, east-west traffic, and L4 vs L7 trade-offs.

• Architect load balancing, queueing, rate limiting, and circuit-breaking strategies.

• Define event streaming internals, partitioning strategies, and throughput vs latency trade-offs.

• Lead secrets management, workload identity, and zero-trust security enforcement.
   

Failure-Driven and Operability-Focused Design

• Design systems from first principles, starting with networks, failure modes, and operational realities.

• Anticipate how systems fail, recover, and degrade under stress.

• Design observability into systems upfront, including:

  • Metrics that expose saturation and contention

  • Logs that remain usable during partial outages

  • Traces that reflect causality and system behavior

• Ensure systems can be operated and maintained by teams who did not design them.
   

Hands-On Technical Leadership

• Reason comfortably at code, protocol, and runtime levels.

• Understand threading models, async execution, blocking behavior, and contention under load.

• Reasons about TCP behavior, retries, timeouts, and head-of-line blocking.

• Produce architecture decision records, system diagrams, and documentation to explain real, running systems.

• Partner closely with build, run, data, and cyber teams to ensure architectural decisions translate into production outcomes.
   

Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with the CITO and senior leadership on enterprise-wide technology strategy.

• Provide architectural leadership during legacy decomposition while systems remain live.

• Influence technology standards, engineering practices, and long-term platform direction.
  

  Requirements

  Technical Expertise

  • Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems under real production load.

  • Deep understanding of infrastructure-aware architecture, including networks, compute, storage, and runtime behavior.

  • Strong grasp of distributed systems failure modes, including:

    • Retry amplification

    • Latency variance vs averages

    • Network partitions

    • State placement and consistency trade-offs

  • Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions based on operational cost, failure behavior, and recovery characteristics.
     

  Architectural Judgement

  • Ability to clearly articulate:

    • Why a specific architectural choice fits a given system

    • The operational and organizational costs of that choice

    • How the system fails and recovers

    • When and why decisions should be reversed

  • Preference for pragmatic, survivable systems over theoretical elegance or buzzword-driven design.
     

  Experience Profile

  • Typically 15+ years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure architecture roles.

  • Backgrounds may include hyperscalers, banking, payments, telecommunications, logistics, or other regulated, high-availability environments.

  • Prior experience leading large-scale platform or infrastructure transformations is strongly preferred.
     

  Assessment Readiness

  • Willingness to undergo a rigorous technical assessment process, including:

    • Structured problem-solving and systems-thinking evaluations

    • Deep technical interviews focused on infrastructure, failure modes, and real-world trade-offs

    • Scenario-based discussions covering capacity planning, cloud vs on-prem decisions, and live legacy migration

Bayes is representing an Engineering Consultancy on a Director-level QP Architect role. The role leads Building projects in the Singapore market

• The role requires a BOA (Registered in Singapore), Architectural Masters/Degree, from Engineering Consultancy or Design/Architectural Practice with above 15 years of senior-level experience
• Building/Property/Commercial Projects – To provide technical leadership and governance, supporting work winning, design, and multi-disciplinary delivery.
• Managing budgets and risks, and ensuring high-quality delivery while balancing client and internal needs.
• Act as the key point of accountability, aligning client requirements with technical execution and team performance.
• Identify and secure new business opportunities to support the consultancy’s growth in allocated market for Building/Property/Commercial

If the role resonates with you and your professional experience complements the responsibilities listed, send your resume to koh.dickson@bayesrecruitment.com

Dickson Koh, EA Registration R1103367

www.bayesrecruitment.com