Total 5 Director/C-Level technology development job vacancies in Singapore

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Audit Director to lead and develop our IT audit and technology risk practice. The role oversees client engagements while supporting revenue growth, profitability, and business expansion.

Candidates with slightly less experience may be considered for a Manager-level role, focusing on leading IT audits and contributing to technology risk advisory services.

As IT Audit Director, you will provide strategic advisory services to clients on IT governance, cybersecurity, data protection, and regulatory compliance, while building a strong team and enhancing the firm’s market presence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit plan aligned with client and firm objectives.

• Lead and oversee client engagements across IT general controls (ITGC), application controls, cybersecurity, data privacy, business continuity and disaster recovery, and IT governance including vendor management.

• Provide practical, value-added recommendations to improve clients’ risk management and internal control environments.

• Review engagement deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and compliance with professional standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, GDPR, ISO 27001, MAS TRM).

• Build and maintain strong client relationships to support retention and identify new business opportunities.

• Contribute to proposal preparation, presentations, and business development initiatives.

• Monitor engagement budgets, timelines, and team utilization to ensure effective delivery and profitability.

• Lead, mentor, and develop managers and team members to enhance technical and leadership capabilities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

• 8–12+ years of experience in IT audit, technology risk, or advisory services, including leadership experience.

• Candidates with 5–7 years of relevant experience may be considered for a Manager-level role.

• Demonstrated experience managing client engagements and contributing to revenue growth.

• Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIA, or equivalent.

• Strong knowledge of IT governance and risk frameworks (e.g., COBIT, NIST, ISO 27001).

• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and project management skills.

If you are ready to join a dynamic team and help businesses succeed while growing your own career, we want to hear from you. Apply now and take the next step in your professional journey with FKT!

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This role is responsible for formulating and executing sales strategies for JGCAP in Singapore and neighboring APAC markets. The position focuses on driving sales growth, identifying new business opportunities, and maintaining strong client relationships in energy, chemical, life sciences, industrial, and urban infrastructure sectors.

Job Description:

・Formulate sales policies, proposals and business plans for the company. The position is expected to formulate specific short-, medium- and long-term sales strategies for the company based on its group sales policy and drive the sales growth and business performance to achieve group targets.

・Coordinate and work closely with key clients to formulate business strategies and action plans for future projects. This role will also take a lead role in project-based commercial strategies, such as the coordination of joint venture partnerships, alliances, etc.

・Identify key issues in sales strategy of the company and entire JGC group in APAC countries and formulate policies to address them. Regularly report, propose and discuss with the senior management of the company and Japan headquarters sales department to achieve sales targets.

・Work closely with management of relevant divisions/departments of the company and the sales division of Japan HQ. Formulate sales strategies and take an initiative to promote it. Interpret market segment information and secure new business opportunities and projects (in areas of energy, chemicals, life sciences, industrial and urban infrastructure, etc.) in APAC countries to achieve the JGC group targets.

・Lead complex proposals/negotiations with customers, including projects need to be undertaken by forming joint venture with other company(ies). This position is particularly required to handle large-size projects with several stakeholders (both outside and inside the company) and manage our top-tier customers who expect close commitment and extensive knowledge in the business side of the projects.

・Take the operational lead of development of sales strategy of the JGC Group, particularly in terms of building, maintaining and improving the customer relationship.

・Implement measures to explore new business opportunities (new customers and new business domain) and build and maintain trusting relationship with new customers, based on the sales strategy.

・Communicate with various stakeholders, including shareholders, partners, relevant government agencies and customers (including existing and new customers) in Japan and across the APAC to build and maintain trusting relationships.

・Identify issues and needs of customers in Singapore and neighboring countries covered by the JGC Group, lead the preparation of proposals in cooperation with related departments to formulate solutions, communicate with customers and negotiate contract matters.

・Share sales information and propose execution policies to relevant departments in the company

・Work together with internal teams to develop proposal including technical idea and solutions to achieve sales targets by ensuring the best possible services and effective communications to all regional customers.

Requirements:

・At least 12 years' experience in sales department in the Oil & Gas and/or industrial and urban infrastructure related industries, including more than 3 projects with a value of USD 100million or more.

・Experience as Department Manager or equivalent position of a listed company or a group company of a listed company with more than 1,000 employees.

・Possesses in-depth practical knowledge and understanding of contractual practices and contracts in EPC projects

・At least 5 years of experience with EPC project (including estimation work) in the APAC region in Oil & Gas and/or industrial and urban infrastructure related industry

・Experience in leading a project to establish new JV entity and its project office.

・Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills with the ability to think "outside the box" to solve problems.

*Due to our limited capacity, please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted individually.

*Please provide true and correct information to the best of your knowledge for our screening questions.

Job Purpose

ICE Data Services delivers high-quality content, connectivity, and execution services through an ultra-secure, highly resilient global network. As a critical backbone for financial and commodity market information flow, it connects the global market community to the broadest range of data sources — including proprietary and third-party content — and trading venues in a safe, efficient manner.

We are looking for an innovative and dynamic subject matter expert to lead business development for our ICE Global Network (IGN) and Consolidated Feeds services across the Asia Pacific region. Partnering closely with internal stakeholders — including Sales, Relationship Management, Product, and Marketing teams — as well as external clients, prospects, and partners, the Business Development Director will drive meaningful commercial growth. The role is central to helping clients access a broad universe of low-latency, aggregated, and normalized multi-asset financial information sourced from hundreds of global venues.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales and relationship management teams to drive revenue growth and identify cross-selling opportunities across ICE's broader suite of services.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for IGN and Consolidated Feeds, clearly articulating product capabilities, content coverage, and delivery options to clients and prospects.
• Identify and pursue new distribution opportunities for consolidated real-time market data across banks, asset managers, hedge funds, ISVs, and redistributors — including cross-sell opportunities with IGN.
• Lead the development of go-to-market strategies for IGN and ICE Consolidated Feeds across Asia Pacific, including competitive positioning against direct exchange feeds and other consolidated feed providers.
• Contribute to new product development and regional strategy for IGN, bringing a deep understanding of APAC market structure and client needs.
• Gather and synthesise client requirements around content, latency, symbology, normalisation, entitlements, and technical onboarding; channel market intelligence to Product and Development teams to inform the roadmap.
• Monitor and assess the competitive landscape, identifying threats and opportunities that could impact our market position.
• Track regulatory developments and market data policy changes — including evolving exchange licensing models — and evaluate their commercial and operational implications.
• Represent ICE Data Services externally as a thought leader, engaging regularly with clients and prospects, speaking at industry events, and maintaining a visible presence across relevant professional and social media channels.
• Travel across the Asia Pacific region to build and deepen client relationships.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5–10 years of experience with a network or hosting provider, market data or information services firm, data vendor, ISV, redistributor, or financial institution.
• University degree in Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of network solutions and an understanding of the trading strategies they support across the Asia Pacific region.
• Strong expertise in real-time market data distribution and consolidated feeds, including delivery considerations such as latency, normalisation, entitlements, and onboarding across multiple asset classes.
• Broad familiarity with the market data ecosystem — including exchanges, data vendors, ISVs, and redistributors — and how buy-side and sell-side firms consume depth-of-market and reference data.
• Ability to engage fluently with clients on global financial concepts, market structure, and data infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage sophisticated AI tools to accelerate research, enhance client engagement strategies, and support commercial decision-making.
• Established network of contacts across financial institutions, market data vendors, and technology providers in the Asia Pacific region.
• Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging across technical and business audiences.
• Strong presentation skills and executive presence, with experience engaging senior stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative, cross-functional team.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• This position is for Office of Research Strategy (ORS).
• Conduct systematic reviews of investigator-led research activities, including Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier-1 and Tier-2 grants, completed projects, and high-quality unsuccessful proposals.
• Identify research initiatives with potential to evolve into programme-scale research agendas aligned with major national and international funding opportunities.
• Work with faculty investigators, Schools, and research clusters to strengthen early-stage research concepts and programme design.
• Support the repositioning of research proposals toward alternative funding opportunities including philanthropic foundations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes, multilateral research initiatives, and international collaborative research programmes.
• Translate emerging research opportunities into structured programme-level initiatives suitable for major funding schemes.
• Work with Schools, Institutes, and research clusters to co-develop programme-scale research concepts and multi-investigator research initiatives.
• Coordinate the development of large research proposals targeting funding opportunities such as:
• MOE AcRF Tier-3 programmes
• Social Science & Humanities Research Thematic Grant (SSHR-TG)
• Large philanthropic foundation grants
• Multilateral research programmes
• International collaborative funding schemes such as Horizon Europe
• Multi-institution consortium grants
• Manage the institutional pipeline of programme-scale research initiatives, including tracking proposal development and coordinating internal stage-gates for major grant submissions.
• Facilitate collaboration between SMU investigators and external partners including universities, research institutes, international organisations, and philanthropic foundations.
• Coordinate consortium formation and partnership development for multi-institution research proposals and collaborative research initiatives.
• Support the preparation and submission of large grant proposals, including programme design coordination, concept refinement, and integration of partner contributions.
• Engage with external stakeholders including philanthropic foundations, multilateral development institutions, bilateral development agencies, and international research programmes to support proposal development and programme positioning.
• Work closely with ORS leadership to prioritise programme initiatives aligned with institutional research strategy and global funding opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Master's degree or equivalent professional experience in public policy, international development, economics, social sciences, business, or related disciplines, with 8 to 12 years of relevant professional experience in research programme development, international development initiatives, research funding strategy, or large grant coordination.
• Prior experience working with international research funding ecosystems including philanthropic foundations, multilateral development banks, bilateral development agencies, and international research funding programmes.
• Strong understanding of global research funding ecosystems including philanthropic foundations, multilateral development institutions, development finance organisations, and bilateral development agencies such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Green Climate Fund, United Nations Development Programme, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development initiatives, United States Agency for International Development, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
• Familiarity with international research funding mechanisms including Horizon Europe, large foundation grants, collaborative research programmes, consortium funding initiatives, and multilateral research partnerships.
• Demonstrated experience conceptualising programme-scale research or development initiatives aligned with major international funding opportunities.
• Experience coordinating large research proposals or programme-level grant submissions involving multiple investigators and institutional partners.
• Ability to translate investigator-led research into programme-level initiatives aligned with major funding priorities.
• Experience managing multi-institution or multi-country collaborations involving universities, research institutes, international organisations, government agencies, or philanthropic foundations.
• Strong project management capability to track research proposal pipelines and coordinate complex multi-partner programme submissions.
• Excellent written communication skills, particularly in developing programme concepts, research funding proposals, and strategic concept notes.
• Experience working within or alongside international development organisations, multilateral institutions, global foundations, or international research programmes will be highly advantageous.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.

Company Overview

Qingjian International (South Pacific) holds a General Building A1 Licence, certified under ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. It has a strong track record in residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial projects across private and public sectors.

Job Summary

Lead and manage construction company operations to drive growth, ensure project success, and maintain compliance with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage overall company operations to achieve strategic business goals and operational excellence
• Develop and implement business strategies to drive sustainable company growth and market competitiveness
• Oversee project performance by ensuring safe execution, timely completion, budget adherence, and compliance with quality standards
• Manage financial performance by preparing budgets, monitoring cash flow, and optimizing profitability
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and regulatory authorities to support business development and project delivery
• Ensure compliance with all relevant construction regulations, safety requirements, and internal company policies
• Provide leadership and guidance to management teams, fostering staff development and high-performance culture
• Make informed decisions on contracts, investments, and business opportunities to maximize company value and growth potential