Sr. Director, Engineering & Data Platform | Hybrid | Makati | Weekends Off

Define the Technology Strategy Behind the Future of Global Workforce Solutions

Set the standard for engineering excellence across an international workforce solutions enterprise. As Sr. Director, Engineering and Data Platform, you'll oversee technology investments, cultivate senior engineering leaders, and direct enterprise platform strategy. Pursue an exceptional global career with Emapta, where your executive expertise influences organizational performance, advances responsible AI adoption, and earns recognition within an elite Top 1% talent community.

Job Overview

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Shift: Flexible Shift | Weekends Off
• Work Setup: Hybrid | PNB Building, Makati

Exciting Perks Await!

• Competitive Salary Package
• Hybrid work arrangement
• HMO coverage with free dependent upon regularization
• Prime office location in Makati (easy access to MRT stations, restaurants, and banks)
• Fixed weekends off
• Salary Advance Program through our banking partner (Eligibility and approval subject to bank assessment. Available to account holders with a minimum of 6 months of company tenure.)
• Unlimited upskilling through Emapta Academy courses (Want to know more? Visit: https://emapta.com/training-calendar/)
• Free 24/7 access to our office gyms (Ortigas and Makati) with a free physical fitness trainer!
• Exclusive Emapta Lifestyle perks (hotel and restaurant discounts, and more!)
• Unlimited opportunities for employee referral incentives across the organization
• Standard government and Emapta benefits
• A total of 20 annual leave credits to use at your discretion (including 5 credits convertible to cash)
• Fun engagement activities for employees
• Mentorship and exposure to global leaders and teams
• Career growth opportunities
• Diverse and supportive work environment

The Qualifications We Seek

Educational & Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• Over 12 years in software engineering, including 7+ years in engineering leadership, managing multiple leadership levels.
• Experience defining enterprise technology strategy and delivering SaaS or multi-product platforms in product-focused organizations, accountable for strategic outcomes, timelines, and quality.
• Expertise in enterprise data architecture, pipelines, integration, engineering operations, and governance.
• Experience managing budgets, vendor contracts, permanent and augmented teams, and offshore delivery.
• Expertise in engineering organizational design, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Experience in regulated environments, including ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, or the Philippine Data Privacy Act.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Expertise in modular, service-oriented, component-based, and cloud-native architectures, enterprise strategy, and architectural trade-offs.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, release and change management, observability, secure development, and information security collaboration.
• Expertise in capacity planning, effort estimation, and realistic delivery forecasting under executive pressure.
• Knowledge of governed APIs, IAM, DataOps, model evaluation, and monitoring for secure, reliable AI applications.
• Commercial judgment in total cost of ownership, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor agreements.

Executive Leadership and Communication Skills

• Executive communication and stakeholder management skills to connect technology strategy with business outcomes and justify investments.
• Proven engineering leadership, coaching, performance management, and succession planning experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HCM, HRIS, or workforce platforms and product management collaboration in matrixed organizations with shared accountability.
• Experience deploying and scaling enterprise AI and machine learning.
• AWS, Azure, TOGAF, or equivalent cloud or enterprise architecture certification.

Your Daily Tasks

AI-Enabled Engineering Productivity

• Direct AI use in coding, reviews, testing, documentation, migration, refactoring, and incident analysis; assess cycle time, review effort, defects, rework, and effectiveness; discontinue ineffective tools and report quarterly to the CIDO.
• Enforce AI quality, security, reliability, accountability, human reviews of sensitive code, schema, migrations, and client or workforce data; coordinate tool approvals, monitoring, and data protection with the CISO and Chief AI & Transformation Officer.

Technology Strategy and Architecture

• Define Digital Office multi-year strategy and modular, service-oriented, component-based, reusable architectures for enterprise platforms and AI.
• Direct solutions design, enforce standards, chair reviews, approve or reject technical proposals, and establish governed APIs for secure, auditable data access without direct database connections.
• Assess build-versus-buy decisions, investments, and architectural trade-offs; align with CIDO cloud standards and escalate deviations and proposals beyond approved limits.

Engineering Delivery and Capacity

• Direct platform delivery, quarterly capacity, resources, forecasts, scope, timelines, and quality; align priorities with the Director, Digital Product & Implementation, and report conflicts, risks, delays, causes, impacts, and recovery plans to the CIDO.

Engineering Capability and Practice

• Enforce code quality, reviews, branching, CI/CD, observability, and definitions of done; oversee developer tools, technology selection, productivity, competency frameworks, professional and leadership development, and prioritized technical debt remediation.

Research and Development

• Direct emerging technology, AI, and agentic AI research; guide the AI Tech Squad through hypothesis-driven pilots, measurable outcomes, proofs of concept, production assessments, adoption decisions, and CIDO recommendations.
• Coordinate with the Chief AI & Transformation Officer to transition Emapta Labs capabilities into enterprise products under production engineering standards.

Data Platform and Governance Implementation

• Direct data platform strategy and product integration; implement CIDO governance for ownership, classification, lineage, quality, retention, domain evidence, and accountability; prioritize tier-one data readiness for analytics and AI beyond transactions.

Quality Assurance and Release Management

• Enforce testing, automation coverage, defect management, approved change controls, and phased, lower-risk releases; monitor production defects and remediation costs.

Security and Privacy in Engineering

• Integrate security and privacy controls with the CISO from design; remediate critical and high-severity findings within agreed service levels, maintain ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and regulatory audit evidence, and immediately escalate exceptions with causes, impacts, and corrective actions.

Executive Engagement and Governance

• Enforce formal review and CIDO approval of delivery deviations and major scope, budget, or schedule changes; resolve stakeholder conflicts and escalate unresolved matters with executive recommendations.

People Leadership

• Direct engineering leaders through objectives, coaching, feedback, performance management, succession plans, stretch assignments, and mentorship; promote transparency, collaboration, risk communication, and improvement while addressing performance concerns and retaining high performers.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform additional administrative or non-administrative duties as assigned by authorized company representatives through written or verbal instructions.

Join Emapta, recognized as one of HR Asia's Best Companies to Work For in Asia 2026 for the fifth year in a row and winner of Inspiring Workplaces Australasia 2026. With a 50/50 gender ratio and a culture rooted in care and empathy, you'll feel valued from day one. We're committed to growing talent and setting you up for success.

Be part of a team that showcases Filipino excellence to the world. With over 30 offices across 11 countries and 1,200+ clients, you'll create real impact every day-whether you work from home or on-site. Our 100% virtual recruitment process makes it easy to get started.

At Emapta, you're not just joining a company-you're becoming part of a thriving community of 13,000+ professionals growing careers with purpose. And behind every partnership we build is a deep respect for people and the impact they make.

"We place integrity at the heart of everything we do and truly value the human experience. That's why, for clients, it's a profound and transformational process that gives them the opportunity to achieve the business growth they desire."

Tim Vorbach, CEO

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