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by Strong Eagle » Thu, 05 May 2011 7:26 pm
The numbers you posted would be inline, and at the very upper end, for a senior person such as yourself, with a good track record, and excellent communications skills. $180K to $200K might be more realistic.
Your problem is that the need for such positions in Singapore are few and far between. Most MNC's retain their headquarters, and hence, the top level development staff, in UK, EU, US, and that is where the regional designs are done, for better or worse... and in my view, often worse.
What generally happens is that more junior people are hired in the AP region, who have responsibility for smaller chunks of the design and implementation, while reporting to a global program.
In a similar vein, suppliers are loathe to bring on board such expensive talent in the region, and if they do need such talent, they contract or bring over from the US, EU, UK.
I speak as an individual who runs a company that implements IT infrastructure projects in the AP region. For networking, overall architecture is usually dictated globally, a supplier like BT handles MPLS issues, and the regional guys are relegated to more or less localized tasks like comm lines to and from a call center, maintenance of local AD and software release facilities, etc.
From a server and network perspective, AP is a very complicated place. Latency issues plague communications with EU. Actually, many pipes to AU suck as well. Cross border tariffs for comm lines can be astounding, especially in India. Trying to move servers out of, or into India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and more, is an exceptionally challenging task.
One quickly realizes that the ultimate plan you end up with has less to do with technical efficiencies, and more to do with costs, lack of flexibility, and bureaucratic limitations. In short, in AU and US, you can design based upon infrastructure needs... here, many more factors come into play.
At today's exchange rates, AU$200K turns into S$263K, a princely sum, given the limited opportunities. But don't give up hope... you haven't specified your architecture specialties, and the comm companies like BT, C&W, AT&T, and Verizon really do need skilled people to meet the needs of their MNC clients.