Lead Specialist, Cloud Architect

About the role

Singtel is looking for a Lead Specialist to own the end‑to‑end architecture and technical governance of its telco cloud infrastructure. You will shape the target architecture across multiple cloud platforms, networking, and supporting services, ensuring alignment with the company’s network transformation and cloud‑native strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the technology architecture roadmap for telco cloud platforms.
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, and reference architectures covering compute, storage, virtualization, container platforms, cloud networking and infrastructure services.
• Ensure seamless integration between cloud platforms, IP transport networks, security infrastructure and management systems.
• Lead technical architecture reviews, solution governance and compliance with security and operational best practices.
• Partner with planning managers for cloud platforms, IP transport and cybersecurity to guarantee architectural consistency.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions, providing recommendations during RFP/RFQ processes.
• Drive simplification, standardisation and automation of the infrastructure to reduce technical debt.
• Mentor engineering and planning teams, promoting architecture best practices across the organisation.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12–15 years of experience in telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture or network engineering.
• Proven track record in leading large‑scale infrastructure transformation programmes.

Required skills

• Telco cloud architecture expertise (NFVi, cloud‑native infrastructure, distributed cloud platforms).
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking, routing, switching, software‑defined networking (SDN) and load balancing.
• Virtualization technologies and container platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Experience with IP transport networks and network security integration.