Head of Platform Engineering

Boost WP. Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Head of Platform Engineering

Boost WP. Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Head of Platform Engineering in Boost Digital Bank revolves around driving digital transformation, managing technology infrastructure, ensuring regulatory compliance and security, promoting collaboration and integration, focusing on performance and scalability, and embracing innovation and emerging technologies.

You play a critical role in driving the digital transformation of the bank, ensuring the development and maintenance of robust and secure technology platforms, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver innovative and seamless digital banking experiences to customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive platform engineering strategy aligned with Boost Bank's digital banking objectives. Lead innovation and optimization of technology platforms.
• Lead engineering teams in designing, building, and enhancing digital platforms including mobile banking, online portals, payment systems, and data analytics platforms.
• Architect and implement scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3) ensuring optimal performance and security.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership in API management (API Gateway, Kong), DevOps / CI / CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Oversee monitoring and observability using Splunk for log management, security monitoring, and operational intelligence.
• Implement bank-grade resilience standards ensuring 99.9%+ uptime, environment isolation (dev / staging / prod), and automated deployment processes.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and automated scaling across large-scale production infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and regulatory adherence.
• Establish KPIs, monitoring systems, and vendor management strategies to deliver high-performance banking platforms.

Job Requirements & Criteria

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

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