Regional Head of Engineering

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In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, GX Bank aims to redefine financial services. As Malaysia's first fully digital bank, we are built on a strong foundation of data, technology, and trust, dedicated to solving problems and serving our customers. We invite those with the drive to help us build this innovative Digibank.

About the Team

Our team is at the forefront of developing and maintaining the robust technology infrastructure that powers our digital bank. We engage in diverse projects spanning mobile, web, and backend systems, leveraging cutting‑edge technology stacks. Our mission is to deliver seamless, intuitive user experiences while ensuring the scalability and availability of our digital banking services.

Job Role Overview

The Regional Head of Engineering, Operations & Customer Experience will lead a team of managers and engineers across various technology domains. This role is pivotal in delivering highly scalable and available services and creating intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross‑functional leaders to shape the product roadmap, establish customer‑centric metrics, and design impactful experiments. The successful candidate will be instrumental in driving region‑wide engineering initiatives, defining engineering strategy and excellence standards, and attracting and retaining top‑tier engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of managers and engineers across different tech stacks (mobile, web and backend) to deliver highly scalable and available services and intuitive experiences for our users.
• Partner with cross‑functional leaders to build the product roadmap and set customer‑focused metrics and robust experiment designs.
• Lead bi‑annually planning and build a smooth execution plan with the team for securing the delivery of product and engineering roadmap; you are the ultimate owner of the successful delivery and rollout of your roadmap.
• Drive region‑wide engineering initiatives by collaborating effectively with senior leaders across the company, employing mastery of technologies, communicating ideas effectively, and driving alignment with key stakeholders to create successful outcomes.
• Set the engineering strategy and engineering excellence metrics and targets for the team, consistently raising the bar across testability, availability, security and code quality for your systems and modules.
• Attract and retain senior engineering talent, actively mentor and develop engineering talent in the team and across the organisation.
• Keep your teams, org structure and staffing aligned with business needs and quickly pivot teams to changing needs.

Requirements

Location : Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

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