The Engineering Manager leads a multi-disciplinary team, shaping technology direction and architecture while ensuring system performance and stakeholder engagement. They drive innovation in scalable platforms across Asia-Pacific.
On behalf of one of its clients, a leading organization within the retail sector, the French Chamber of Commerce is looking for an Engineering Manager to drive its technology function across the Asia-Pacific region. This position plays a critical role in shaping the company’s digital capabilities, ensuring robust, scalable platforms that support operations across multiple countries.
Based in Singapore, this role will oversee a geographically distributed engineering team and act as a bridge between technical execution and business strategy. The successful candidate will be instrumental in defining long-term technology direction while building and nurturing a strong engineering culture.
Responsibility:
- Team Leadership & Development
Oversee and expand a multi-disciplinary engineering team of 20+ professionals across areas such as backend development, frontend, mobile, DevOps, and platform operations. You will guide team leads, foster collaboration, and instill best practices to maintain high standards of delivery and innovation.
- Technology Direction & Architecture
Contribute to strategic technical decisions and guide the evolution of system architecture. This includes supporting the transition toward scalable, cloud-first infrastructures and modern distributed systems.
- System Performance & Reliability
Take ownership of platform stability, ensuring systems are resilient, performant, and capable of supporting increasing user demand across the region.
- Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions to align engineering initiatives with company priorities. Translate complex technical topics into clear business value and outcomes.
- Technology Landscape
Remain actively engaged with modern technologies and engineering practices, including:
- Cloud environments and containerized infrastructure
- Backend ecosystems leveraging contemporary frameworks, messaging systems, and search solutions
- Web and mobile technologies built on modern frameworks and native platforms
Requirements
- Approximately 8–10 years of experience in the technology industry, with a clear progression from hands-on engineering roles to engineering leadership.
- Strong experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems, cloud-native environments, and high-availability platforms.
- Full professional proficiency in English is required.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams or engineering managers within an international and distributed environment.
- Additional languages are considered a plus due to regular collaboration with international teams.
French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore Singapore Office
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