Senior Development Manager

Full Time Phnom Penh Posted 6 days ago

Technology

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Define and champion the long-term platform roadmap ensuring scalability, maintainability, and business agility.
  • Drive platform alignment across teams to deliver value consistently.
  • Coach tech leads, architects, and engineers to improve autonomy, accountability, and craftsmanship. Foster a high-performance culture across distributed teams.
  • Oversee planning, prioritization, and delivery across backend services, middleware, and shared platform components. Manage release cadence, backlog health, and platform KPIs.
  • Ensure architectural compliance, technical debt management, and platform-wide design principles through collaboration with architects and principal engineers.
  • Partner with Product Owners, Security, QA, and DevOps to ensure that platforms are secure, testable, observable, and aligned with business capabilities.
  • Implement scalable agile practices, OKRs, and cadence rituals (PI planning, tribe syncs, retros). Facilitate flow across multiple value streams.
  • Ensure platform adheres to secure development standards and proactively manages audit, compliance, and privacy concerns across environments.
  • Evaluate and govern platform toolchains (e.g., Gitflow, CI/CD, Observability stacks) and coordinate with vendors for support and SLAs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

  • ​​Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (master’s preferred)
  • ​Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) is a plus​
  • ​​​7+ years in backend/platform engineering, including system architecture and infrastructure optimization
  • ​5+ years of proven team management experience across multiple squads or tribes
  • ​Prior experience scaling banking platforms, ensuring multi-region reliability, HA, and fault tolerance
  • ​Experience leading cross-functional agile teams, driving delivery across multiple platforms simultaneously​​
  • ​​​Strong understanding of banking systems architecture, core system integration, and digital transformation roadmaps
  • ​Expertise in secure service design (OAuth2, OpenID, encryption, tokenization, etc.)
  • ​Clear understanding of regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and IT governance for platforms
  • ​Business value prioritization using agile metrics like business velocity, ROI-based epics, and lead time management​​
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