This role is hired under Mandai X, the growth accelerator and venture building arm of Mandai Wildlife Group.
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂWe live in a world where the delicate balance with nature has been disrupted. Reversing this trend will require a global effort of unprecedented speed and scale.
An impossible task alone.
Which is why we challenge ourselves to reach 1 billion consumers, as potential for change can only happen when many come together.
And this is where Mandai X can make a difference. Working to influence changes in attitudes, decisions and behaviours.
Leveraging over 50 years of experience in inspiring people to value and protect nature as part of the Mandai Wildlife Group, our efforts will spark, catalyse and accelerate innovative ventures in completely new domains to drive growth and impact beyond boundaries. Eliminating the well-entrenched trade-offs faced between commercial, human and the planet’s well-being. -– and blending everything together so that these usual conflicts faced are aligned.
We will redefine what a better life means; and unleash humanity’s collective power to make this change through impactful ventures that enable and empower individuals and companies with everyday choices that not only help them, but also make the world a better place at the same time.
Welcome to Mandai X.
As Technology Lead, you will oversee all IT matters related to the portfolio product development and technology approach with business units, technology partners and suppliers. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you will need to wear a strategic alignment and relationship hat while also juggling day to day activities such as DevOps, security checks and balances, administration managing envionments, to platform feature development.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
· Build and own the technical platform that enables individual ventures to launch and scale.
· Be the bridge between Mandai X and Mandai IT. Ensure compliance with security and privacy policies while minimizing the impact on venture velocity.
· Work alongside the individual Venture Leads to make key technology decisions, increase cross-venture learning, and reduce duplicate work.
· Select and manage key vendor/partner relationships.
· Any other relevant duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
· Masters/Bachelor degree in Information Technology/Engineering/Computer Science
· Can-do attitude - pragmatic yet convincing and able to navigate the organization and effectively build relationship at all levels.
· Ability to work in a fast-paced ever-changing environment and handle ambiguity.
· Familiar with cloud-based solutions, continuous delivery, platform engineering, observability, and infrastructure as code
· Solid understanding of solution design and architecture from MVP to Enterprise Scale
· Ability to lead development hands-on, if needed
· Minimum 10 years of experience with at least 5 years in shipping digital products and services globally
· Minimum 5 years in a leadership role
· Previous experience in a startup or innovation/venture building department/studio
· Bonus points if you have experience in gaming, edutainment and/or sustainability, tourism, or conservation industry background.