Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

At Grabber Technology Solutions (GTS), we revolutionise the technology experience for every Grabber. Our mission is to empower our team with seamless and innovative solutions that enhance their daily work. We are a diverse group of forward-thinkers committed to creating personalised IT experiences. If you're passionate about customer-centric innovation on technology at Grab, come join us and help shape the future of technology.

Get to Know the Role

Seeking an experienced Manager II to architect and lead enhancements for our service management ecosystem, centered on the IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. As the Strategic Lead, Technical Authority, and Solution Architect, this role connects platform governance, operational teams, and business stakeholders. Responsibilities include defining technical strategy, vetting feasibility, ensuring system stability, driving continuous improvement, and enforcing effective platform adoption consistent with ITSM best practices and scalability.

This role is based onsite at Grab's office in Petaling Jaya, and you will be reporting to the Senior Manager, Service Management Office of Service Management Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

Strategic Architecture & Enhancement Leadership

• Architect and manage the full lifecycle of multi-platform enhancements (Freshservice, APIs, AWS, Salesforce).
• Provide expert technical and process advisory for platform and complex service design decisions.
• Evaluate new service models, automation, and platform requests, driving the strategic vision.
• Own and prioritize the enhancement backlog based on operational impact, scalability, and business value.
• Translate confirmed business needs into detailed, architecturally sound functional and non-functional requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Authority

• Serve as the Technical Authority, strictly vetting business requests against architectural standards, and approving or rejecting scope.
• Partner with business units to expertly guide non-technical stakeholders on ITSM needs, solution options, and platform constraints.
• Present architectural findings, proposed solutions, and strategic roadmaps to leadership and cross-functional teams.

Complex Triaging, Governance & System Resilience

• Assess, triage, and resolve complex requests involving advanced workflows, and intricate cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate critical incident response and resolution for platform issues directly affecting the end-user or agent experience.
• Prepare and approve all validated enhancement work for the technical development team, ensuring necessary artifacts and architectural guidelines are complete before development begins.
• Ensure that comprehensive system and architectural documentation is promptly maintained and updated.

Administrative management

• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with ITSM platform and service vendors, ensuring performance meets Grab's objectives.
• Budget & Commercial Management: Plan and manage the budget for optimized resource allocation and financial efficiency. Negotiate vendor contracts.
• Provide technical guidance and support for service management tool customization and configuration

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Minimum 10 years of experience with a Service Management, Technical Architecture, or related leadership role.
• Experience architecting and leading improvement plans on enterprise ITSM platforms and cross-platform integrations (API, AWS, Salesforce).
• Experience managing complete system development life cycle on ITSM platforms.
• Track record in designing system, managing multi-tenant architectures, and crisis recovery strategies.
• Proficient in process mapping, system integration requirements, and technical user story creation.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.