Job Description

Are you ready to be part of a Digital Transformation the industry has never seen before? The key purpose of this role is to build powerful teams to deliver custom-coded software solutions to meet the fast-changing business needs. You must work closely with the Product, Data, Digital & Operations teams and deliver quality solutions. We are looking for someone to join our team in Kuala Lumpur to be part of the Digital and Cultural transformation @ Airasia.

What you\'ll do:

• Build and maintain distributed teams
• Coach, manage, and grow individuals on the team
• Be an advocate of engineering best practices
• Believe and influence an iterative agile approach to everything we do
• Build quality into the processes and products we own
• Help design, implement and manage software development processes and tools
• Define software solutions in close collaboration with the Product team
• Define operational metrics and work closely with the Operations team to ensure that all delivered software will continue working seamlessly in Production
• Understand the value of true CI/CD and help build and maintain it
• Engage and manage 3rd party vendors for Development resource bodyshopping
• Help evolve our tech stack\xe2\x80\xa6 microservices built/deployed where appropriate, server-less, only modern programming languages such as node.js, python, angular, single page applications, PWA, containers, Nosql storage, Dynamic caching
• Be able to recommend COTS solutions to business requirements where more appropriate than a custom-coded solution
• Be able to identify opportunities and risks, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success
• Work collaboratively with other technology and business leaders to ensure that Software Engineering technology is fully leveraged to deliver the business strategy

Role Environment & Role Challenges

• Management of Software Engineers across multiple locations and time zones
• Management of blended teams made up of in-house and outsourced resources
• Management of multiple concurrent projects
• Management of development across multiple technology stacks
• Ensure that AirAsia keeps up with technology evolution and surpasses its regional and industry peer

Qualifications / Experience

• 10+ years management in Software Engineering
• Experience across multiple industry verticals (not necessarily aviation, in fact, non-aviation experience is a plus); ecommerce experience highly desired.
• Candidate must possess at Advanced/Higher/Graduate Diploma, Bachelor\'s Degree, Post Graduate Diploma or Professional Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Science & Technology or equivalent.

We are all different - one talent to another - that is how we rely on our differences. At AirAsia, you will be treated fairly and given all chances to be your best.We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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