# Head of Digital Engineering, APAC

> Fuku · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-13

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

\* Global talent welcome: Candidates based outside Malaysia are encouraged to apply.  
\* Tech + business leader: Challenge the status quo and turn technology into business impact.  
\* Startup mindset: Move fast, stay hands-on, experiment, and build for scale.  
  
Our client is a a leading global insurance organization providing a broad range of insurance and risk management solutions to individuals, businesses, and corporate clients. With a strong international presence, the organization is committed to helping customers manage risk, protect their assets, and build a more resilient future. It combines industry expertise, innovative solutions, and a strong focus on sustainability and customer needs, offering employees opportunities to grow, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact.  
  
\> Overall responsibility for IT development, engineering delivery, and production operations across the organization.  
  
KEY TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES  
Strategic Leadership:  
• Own the end-to-end IT application development and smooth production running.  
• Drive identification and adoption of best practices, tools and frameworks for development & operations  
• Ensure design and development are always focused on strategic short term and long-term business objectives.  
• Create approaches and plans for the SaaS agenda for the digital insurance platform, with a strong focus on reuse, scalability, and optimized delivery  
  
Technical Excellence:  
• Drive speed to market with delivery of initiatives.  
• Own the execution of the SaaS agenda  
• Convert strategy to action by developing and maintaining a robust technical design and adherence to design during build.  
• Drive business focus and urgency within the development teams.  
• Ensure technical teams are staying current with emerging and newer technologies.  
• Drive implementation of robust engineering and DevOps practices and tools for frequent multi-country deployments.  
• Ensure Information security requirements are constantly considered are implemented during design and build.  
• Ensure identification and robust implementation of best practices for production monitoring, observability and alerting. Including proactively identifying problem areas and addressing.  
  
EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS  
• Senior stakeholder engagement and influence  
• Prior experience with leading a team of developers  
• Passion for technology.  
• In depth technical understanding of multiple technologies  
o Restful APIs  
o Spring boot (Java)  
o JavaScript  
o ReactJS  
o Databases (Postgres)  
o Cloud – AWS, docker containers etc  
• Ability to document and communicate technical design to developers  
• Ability to review code  
• Ability to review technical frameworks, libraries, tools and products. Including being able to do Poof of concepts before decision to adopt.  
• DevOps and Agile delivery experience  
• Technology qualifications and relevant certifications

## Apply

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