Vp, Hive Lead

Job ID: 29669

Location: Bukit Jalil KL, MY

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 27 May 2025

**Job Summary**
- Collaborating with Domain Tech Leads, Engineering Leads, Architects, and leading a team of Product Owners, the Hive Lead guides a culture of agility, empowerment, and continuous innovation. This person champions long-term stability, user-focused design, and value-driven roadmaps—while embedding regulatory and risk considerations as natural aspects of the development process. The role also requires close adherence to the Enterprise Software Delivery Lifecycle (ESDLC), referencing relevant PO R&R documents and aligning with Clarity, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Confluence for planning and governance.
You will manage a budget of ~10M USD across change and run across multiple platforms and lead a group of 5-10 Product Owners and their squads consisting of 100+ engineers, in close collaboration with Technology leader(s), business stakeholders from across the organization, to define the vision for the entire end-to-end experience in the domain, across all digital touch points. In addition, you will be accountable for defining the strategy, roadmap, investments prioritization and successful launch of all digital products in the portfolio from ideation through implementation, as well as ongoing optimization**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsibilities
1. Shape and Communicate Platform Vision
- Establish a multi-year strategic roadmap, blending market insights, business needs, and technical innovation to position the platform for future success.
- Evangelise this roadmap with domain and squad leaders, ensuring wide alignment and clear understanding of why, how and when the platform will evolve.
2. Align with Enterprise Objectives
- Ensure platform initiatives directly support major WRB outcomes and domain-level OKRs.
- Champion a data-driven approach to prioritisation, incorporating both functional milestones and non-functional imperatives (e.g., security, scalability, performance).
3. Set Balanced Strategic Priorities & KPIs
- Drive adoption of measurable metrics (e.g., developer adoption, cost savings, time-to-market improvements) to improve the platform’s success.
- Proactively integrate technical debt reduction and compliance items into these priorities, balancing new feature delivery with foundational stability.
4. Promote Scalability & Sustainable Growth
- Collaborate with Domain Tech Leads and Architects to embed performance, reliability, and risk controls at the architecture level.
- Manage trade-offs between rapid feature deployment and the long-term viability of the platform ecosystem.**Skills and Experience**
- 2. Business

**Responsibilities**:
1. Champion Stakeholder Needs
- Continuously advocate for Journeys/Platforms and other Hive stakeholders, translating their feedback into the unified backlog for the Hive.
- Build transparent relationships with Journeys to ensure each domain’s objectives are reflected in the platform’s evolution.
2. Unified Backlog Ownership
- Maintain a single backlog that captures stream aligned journey roadmaps, business-driven features, technical enablers, and compliance/risk work.
- Balance urgent demands against strategic investments, reflecting the right mix of short-term wins and long-term capabilities.
3. Value-Driven Delivery & Communication
- Provide real-time visibility into backlog status, upcoming releases, and risk items through lifecycle tools like Clarity, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Confluence.
- Host regular reviews showcasing platform increments (e.g., new integrations, improved APIs), inviting cross-domain feedback to refine direction.
4. Foster Cross-Domain and Cross-Hive Synergy
- Identify reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate outcomes across multiple hives.
- Collaborate with domain owners to avoid siloed development and ensure a consistent user experience where platform services are leveraged.
3. Processes

**Responsibilities**:
1. Adopt & Embed eSDLC (Enterprise Software Delivery Lifecycle) Standards
- Ensure all platform lifecycles (e.g., ideation dev test deploy monitor) align with ESDLC and organisational governance frameworks.
- Reference the eSDLC PO R&R document where appropriate, reinforcing best practices for backlog management, quality gates, and audit readiness.
2. Champion Big Room Planning & Directional Scrums
- Lead and actively participate in quarterly and directional planning sessions, enabling squads, chapters, and domain stakeholders to align on objectives.
- Encourage open dialogue, autonomy, and continuous improvement, using these forums to address dependencies and realign priorities swiftly.
3. DevOps & Continuous Process Optimisation
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, automated testing), ensuring fast, reliable releases with mínimal manual overhead.
- Collect feedback from squads, domain leads, and external partners, feed