Technical Lead

Job Description

About the company

Geekhunter is recruiting for a Compliance Officer on behalf of a MAS-licensed Major Payment Institution focused on cross-border remittance services within Asia.

Job Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for end-to-end ownership of the remittance/payment platform ensuring system stability resilience regulatory compliance (including MAS TRM) and operational excellence.
• Own end-to-end stability of the remittance/payment platform.
• Lead issue triage root cause analysis remediation and preventive actions.
• Manage production support including incident management on-call coordination and post-mortems.
• Monitor and improve operational metrics such as uptime latency MTTR failed transactions and issue backlog.
• Drive continuous improvement of the technology stack and engineering practices.
• Strengthen release management observability automated testing and security-by-design practices.
• Implement and enforce change management release governance and production access controls.
• Ensure proper environment segregation and quality gates before production deployment.
• Lead disaster recovery planning and testing ensuring RTO/RPO objectives are met.
• Identify and eliminate single points of failure across systems and dependencies.
• Own and maintain MAS Technology Risk Management (TRM) framework compliance.
• Conduct risk assessments and maintain the technology risk register.
• Ensure control implementation and audit evidence readiness.
• Manage outsourcing governance including vendor due diligence SLA/KPI monitoring and access governance.
• Oversee incident and change governance requirements for outsourced service providers.
• Provide technical architecture and integration guidance (APIs data flows security controls).
• Conduct technical due diligence and ensure implementation readiness for group solutions.
• Support customer and partner discussions requiring strong technical expertise.
• Ensure solution recommendations align with regulatory security and operational requirements.

Job Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in platform engineering IT operations technology risk or technology leadership.
• Experience working in regulated environments (banking/financial services preferred).
• Strong banking and payments domain knowledge.
• Hands-on experience managing production systems and incident handling.
• Strong root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with IT operations governance and control frameworks.
• Knowledge of MAS Technology Risk Management (TRM) guidelines.
• Experience managing outsourcing/vendor governance and SLAs.
• Understanding of disaster recovery planning and operational resilience.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• High level of accountability and ownership mindset

Benefits

• Annual Bonus & Performance Bonus
• Reimburse Telecommunication