SVP, Head of Developer Experience (DevEx)

BUILD MARKETS. SHAPE ECONOMIES.

At SGX Group, we create markets. We turn ideas into products and expand access to new opportunities. We are building the future of the exchange in-house: from architecture and platforms to the critical systems that power markets. The biggest decisions are still open to people who join us now.

The opportunity

The Head of Developer Experience is a senior technical leadership role within Market Engineering, responsible for advancing secure engineering practices across SGX’s mission-critical financial market systems. The role leads high-impact DevSecOps initiatives, sets engineering standards, and drives secure, resilient and compliant delivery at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a proven DevSecOps leader with strong technical depth, delivery ownership and stakeholder influence. You will lead cross-functional projects, guide engineering and security direction, and be accountable for work with high visibility to senior management.

What you will do

• CI/CD Engineering: Define enterprise pipeline standards and automation practices.


• Infrastructure as Code: Establish IaC standards and platform automation capabilities.


• DevSecOps: Establish DevSecOps standards and security automation patterns.


• Developer Experience (DevEx): Lead developer experience initiatives and engineering enablement.


• Platform Engineering: Lead platform engineering practices and capabilities.


• Environment Management: Lead environment strategy and engineering self-service adoption.


• Engineering Tooling: Define engineering tooling standards and governance.


• Automation Engineering: Lead enterprise workflow automation programmes.


• Compliance Automation: Establish policy-as-code and compliance automation standards.


• Platform Leadership: Lead DevOps capability development and standardisation across teams.


• Agentic AI for Platform & Operations: Lead the domain's design of reusable agentic platform services that reduce engineering toil, improve DevEx, automate compliance evidence and integrate agents into CI/CD, cloud, environment, security and observability workflows.


• Own high-visibility projects or workstreams, with clear accountability for outcomes, delivery milestones, risks, dependencies and senior management updates.


• Provide senior-level security architecture input, threat modelling and secure design guidance for new products, platforms and major technology changes.

What we are looking for

• Experience: Significant experience in DevSecOps, security engineering, platform engineering or technology leadership within complex, high-availability environments; financial services or regulated industry experience is strongly advantageous.


• Track record: Proven ability to lead projects, workstreams or engineering teams with clear accountability for outcomes, stakeholder alignment, risk management and execution quality, including delivering work with high management visibility.


• Technical stack: Strong hands-on knowledge of secure SDLC, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, SCA, container security, secrets management, compliance-as-code and policy-as-code, with practical expertise across Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Bash or PowerShell, and observability platforms such as ELK, Datadog and Coralogix.


• Standards & environment: Strong grounding in IAM, encryption, secure configuration, vulnerability management, incident response, technology risk and security standards such as OWASP, NIST and CIS Benchmarks.


• Communication & leadership: Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and guide teams toward secure, pragmatic and sustainable outcomes.


• Education & certifications: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or related discipline; relevant cloud, DevOps, security or architecture certifications are advantageous.

About SGX Group

SGX Group is one of the world's most trusted international marketplaces, known for its stability and openness. Anchored in Singapore, we enable price discovery, capital formation and risk management across asset classes, supported by resilient infrastructure and robust clearing. We convene issuers, investors and intermediaries to create and grow markets that stand the test of time. Find out more at www.SGXGroup.com.