Assistant Director – Digital Strategy & Transformation (Business)

About the role

You will lead the development and execution of MINDEF/SAF's digital strategy and roadmap, driving digital maturity across the organisation. The role bridges the digital office, business domain owners, and Business Digitalisation Offices to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the focal point between the digital office, domain owners, and Business Digitalisation Offices to align priorities, investments, and solutions with enterprise direction.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives across HR, Finance, Logistics, and Medical domains, partnering with stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Review major IT requirements and proposals to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture, platform strategy, and governance frameworks.
• Provide strategic oversight on cross‑domain digital initiatives, identifying trade‑offs, integration risks, and synergistic opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams and architects to co‑develop capability models, data use cases, and system roadmaps.
• Develop and refresh domain guidance, playbooks, and frameworks to support solutioning within enterprise bounds.
• Identify systemic risks, capability overlaps, and misalignments, synthesising insights for corrective actions or policy interventions.

Required profile

• Education in Business, Business Analytics, or Information Technology.
• At least 7 years of experience in management consulting, business planning, strategy, or digital transformation programme management.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to craft clear communications for senior audiences.
• Resourceful self‑starter with robust strategic thinking, problem‑solving, and project management capabilities.

Required skills