You are:

• Firstly a good leader with great skills and talents for managing and driving people into achieving big ambitions
• Self-starter, builder, hacker and problem solver at heart. You go all-in to problem solve complex situations and like to deliver solutions & results.
• Genuinely excited about technology with hands on experience with the latest concepts in software development, system architecture, data analytics and at least a working understanding of artificial intelligence. You are someone who is constantly up to date and experimenting with the latest technology developments
• Love building rapid prototypes to test & pilot ideas and are comfortable using a wide variety of open source tools. You have no hesitation in engaging strangers with your work to validate ideas, get feedback and test products
• Highly collaborative in approach with the ability to work effectively in dynamic teams
• Detailed, analytical and structured in your thinking. Comfortable in an agile way of work.
• You are inspired & motivated by the idea of providing great experiences to customers
• Yet also someone who contributes to our value creation and live up to the DiGi leadership expectations :
  • You must be Passionate about the business i.e. You have the will to win by having deep insights of our Customers; focusing on what makes us successful; and setting ambitious goals and motivating people to deliver
  • You encourage Change & Continuous Improvement i.e. You have the courage to challenge & be challenged; create visible change; and nurture creativity and innovation
  • You are someone who ensures Excellent Execution from your people i.e You are driven by turning decisions into results by raising the bar; simplifying decision making; and delivering on decisions with quality
  • You Empower People i.e. You believe in the capabilities of our people and set clear expectations; you guide, coach and support them through continuous feedback; and have trust in them and able to give responsibility to them
  • You maintain a strong sense of Integrity & Accountability always i.e. you take ownership of your results & the DiGi Way of conducting business, by making the Code of Conduct a way of life; showing transparency and taking ownership; and maintaining One DiGi always.

Your Responsibilities:

• Support Head of Innovation in driving Digital Transformaion Strategy & Roadmap within the area of accountability, track the progress of execution and develop correction plans as necessary.
• Research, explore and source for new technology solutions that can contribute to digitalization of customer experiences. You will be asked to develop solutions that allow us to build new, agile, digital customer capabilities while  keeping in mind and finding a way around challenges of the legacy IT stack
• Develop ideas into working prototypes for market and user validation before scale up. You are to leverage on cloud based, open source or other available solutions in the market and perform technical feasibility studies where required
• Present your idea/solution pitch to convince and get buy in and support from key stakeholders. We will expect you to hold your own in technical discussions, be a subject matter expert, and have an end-to-end view of the solution
• Lead the solution development & implementation including but not limited to requirements clarification, robust & scalable design, systems integration analysis and delivery.  Approach to delivery may differ from case-to-case e.g. through internal engineering teams, vendors, off-the-shelf solutions, hybrid approaches etc
• Troubleshoot any emerging issues during deployment, implementation and integration. You will also be expected develop a game-plan to transfer the final product/solution to an ongoing  delivery team seamlessly
• Continuously instill the exploration mindset to drive transformation and IT Capability Uplift jointly with Manage Service Provider
• Change the Way of Work with biz to jointly build biz requirement to prepare for IT Disruption and new innovation for future digital transformation by accelerating Digital transformation for ITDEV & OPS
• Inject new mindset shift and new way of work, Exploration of best practices / non Telco solution  in the market and to execute POC for exploration based on defined scope

Your Merits:

You have the right mix of technical skills & experience for this role with an exposure to both contemporary methods of software development & architecture as well as typical legacy IT stacks of a large consumer fronting organization (e.g. Telco, Bank, Insurance etc). We expect you to have expertise in the following domains:

• Experience and comfortable in creating concept presentations and articulating to key stakeholders such as CIO/CTO, VPs, Directors, architects, and project managers
• Proven ability to scope, time, cost estimate, and plan software engineering initiatives
• Experience as a hands-on architect who has developed and deployed large-scale enterprise applications on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, VMware)
• Experience in SOA based applications in Java/Microservices apps with frameworks and libraries such as .NET, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, JDBC, JMS, JMX, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS
• Understanding of Cloud Native principles and techniques such as Microservices/BDD; containers/Dockers; Agile; 12 factor apps; test driven development; cloud; platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Dockers, PCF, BlueMix etc.; Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Knowledge of database design; source code testing frameworks; build pipelines
• Experience of having worked in agile development teams with Agile Scrum and Lean MVP based planning and execution with XP/pair-programming
• Domain knowledge of the Telco IT stack will be an advantage particularly in the areas of Billing Services, CRM & Protocols (SS7, CAMEL, Diameter, CORBA and SOAP)
• Background in Software Engineering and/or Software Architecture