Job Description

JOB OVERVIEW:

. Owns the technology relationships up to CxO level & supports technology thought leadership.

. Collaborates, consults and provides Company's system standards, best practices and guidelines and overall architectural principles, frameworks, and standards in an engagement.

. Drives research, case studies, and prototypes on leading-edge technologies and how they can be leveraged.

. Develops POCs to evaluate new technologies and makes recommendations.

. Designs and/or proposes enhancements to improve the performance, availability and reliability of the system architectures.

. Ensures that we are continuously raising our standard of engineering excellence.

. Being a member of the Architecture Committee to facilitate AC meetings with internal and external technical stakeholders and SMEs.

. Assist and supporting the lead architects to research & develop the Enterprise IT Roadmap

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Responsible for understanding Company's technical environment: Gathers business insights, and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to the business outcomes

. Ensures architecture designs/deployments are optimal

. Responsible for Practice Development: Generates new ideas for changes and improvements to existing technologies, and processes. Drives Proof of Concepts

. Assist in identifying opportunities and escalating issues to the project director.

. Support strategy roadmap development, where the high-level plan is translated into operation plans and action items.

. Author or contribute to technical or white papers, enterprise reports, and presentations.

. Works on multiple projects simultaneously, interacting with all levels of staffs and stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES:

Special Skills (Computer skills, quality knowledge, special programmes)

. Solid understanding of modern web technologies, languages and frameworks

. Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of in project management principles and practices

. Good understanding of the latest technologies: Kubernetes, Kafka, cybersecurity, MSA, AI/ML, or Real-time analytics solutions

. Passion for evangelizing and presenting technical concepts to developers, IT management

Desirable soft skills:

. Good verbal and written communications skills

. Able to work cohesively with the various teams

. Show initiative and responsibility for the tasks under the ownership

. Adaptive to changes

Preferred Education

. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, or related field.

Work Experience (years of experience in the industry and functional area)

. 8+ years of experience in total would be highly recommended.

. At least 4-5 years of deep technology experience at enterprise-grade systems.

. At least 2-3 years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications on cloud.

. Experience in Cloud Solutions such as Google Cloud Platform / Microsoft Azure / Alicloud.

. Hands-on experience and knowledge of one or more topics: DevOps, AI, Big Data, Machine Learning, Serverless computing, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, etc.

. Experiences in various architect community activities (e.g., Open source contributions, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) is an added advantage.

Working Hours:

Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM