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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

HackerTrailSingapore, Australia, Vietnam
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About the role

You would be a senior technical leader who sets architecture and engineering direction across multiple teams and engagements. This role takes the most complex technical challenges, defines platform and solution architectures for enterprise AI systems in regulated environments, and elevates engineering capability across the firm. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with broad organisational influence.

What You Will Do

  • Define architecture and technical strategy across multiple engagements, platforms, and teams.
  • Lead the design of complex, large-scale, secure production systems for regulated enterprise clients.
  • Set engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices adopted firm-wide.
  • Provide deep technical leadership on the most challenging delivery and reliability problems.
  • Partner with delivery leadership, architects, and senior client stakeholders on technical direction and proposals.
  • Drive build-vs-buy, technology selection, and platform investment decisions.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, and grow the technical bench across teams.
  • Contribute reusable platforms, accelerators, and frameworks that scale delivery.
  • Champion responsible, effective use of AI tools across engineering.

What you’ll bring

What We Are Looking For

  • 10 to 15 years of experience delivering and architecting production software at scale.
  • Recognized depth in system design, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.
  • Extensive AWS expertise, including security, networking, and enterprise deployment patterns.
  • Track record setting technical direction across multiple teams or a business line.
  • Experience in regulated industries (financial services, telco, insurance) is strongly valued.
  • Strong influence, communication, and stakeholder leadership skills.
  • Continued hands-on engineering credibility.

Language

Fluency in spoken and written English is required across all markets.

Benefits and perks

What We Offer

Competitive compensation aligned to market standards.
Opportunities to work on enterprise-scale AI transformation programmes across Asia Pacific.
Exposure to advanced AI tooling, AWS partnership ecosystems, and regulated-industry engineering delivery.

Skills

Required

AWSSystem DesignLeadershipEnglishStakeholder managementCommunicationDistributed SystemsCloud-Native ArchitectureSecurityNetworking

Nice to have

Financial servicesThaiAutomationInsuranceProduction SystemsPlatform engineeringEnterprise ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureReference ArchitectureAWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalMentoringLocal languageDevOpsJapaneseComplianceVietnameseAITelecommunicationsFilipino

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