Head of IT EDP Software Engineering Services

The Position

Join our global IT organization as Head of IT EDP Software Engineering APAC Services and take on a founding leadership role for IT Enterprise Data, AI & Platforms in Manila. You will build a new, high-performing software engineering team from the ground up, while enhancing the existing testing team with additional operational support capabilities. You will establish our Software Engineering Services presence in APAC and act as the regional voice of IT EDP Software Engineering across the Philippines and the wider region. 

This is more than a people leadership role. You will play a key role in expanding Boehringer Ingelheim's global Software Engineering capabilities which not only deliver and support our Enterprise Development Platform services, but also actively evolves them and contributes new ideas. You will help to connect our global platform teams with the strong software engineering and test community in the region and make follow-the-sun delivery a reality for business-critical software engineering services across the Americas, Europe and APAC

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Team Building & Talent: Establish and grow a new software engineering team in Manila, while enhancing the existing testing team with additional operational support capabilities – from hiring and onboarding to structured knowledge transfer and long-term career development.
• Service Delivery: Ensure reliable, high-quality delivery of Testing Platform and Enterprise Development Platform services, including operations and support, in close alignment with the global platform product
• Platform Engineering & Innovation: Build the software engineering foundation and capabilities required to continuously enhance our platforms, develop new platform features and contribute innovative solutions across the broader portfolio of platform offerings.
• Regional Liaison: Act as the primary interface for IT EDP Software Engineering in APAC – representing regional needs towards global leadership and translating global strategy into regional execution.
• Community Building & Cross-Functional Partnership: Establish and nurture the Software Engineering, Testing and Enterprise Development Platform communities in Manila, fostering engineering excellence, shared standards and continuous learning, while partnering closely with key users of our solutions, such as the GBS Testing team.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive automation, standardization and the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices to increase speed and quality of delivery. 

How you will contribute

• Operational Excellence
  • Strengthening system stability, service quality and cybersecurity to reduce incidents and downtime
  • Provide systems and processes that consistently work, giving our teams a trustworthy base
  • Build scalable, automated solutions that enable innovation while maintaining robust operations 
• Collaboration
  • Maximize partnership, aligning talent an    d scope to the highest-impact activities
  • Collaborate to deliver value together with the global platform owners across regions, hubs and IT domains 
  • Embed learning and knowledge sharing in all activities
  • Inspire, coach and develop a diverse team and foster a high-performance culture 

Requirements:

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Academic degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or comparable
• Several years of experience in software engineering, test engineering or platform operations, ideally in a global, multi-site environment
• Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience in IT
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering and testing practices (CI/CD, test automation, DevOps toolchains such as GitHub, Jenkins, Atlassian, TOSCA, Playwright)
• Proven ability to build networks and communities across organizational boundaries and cultures
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills at senior level
• Experience in establishing new teams or enhancing platform operations for an established global service is a strong plus.
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken