Enterprise Architect

JOB OVERVIEW:

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

• Collaborates, consults and provides ONE 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 in ONE 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 ONE technical environment: Gathers business insights, and maps architecture and digital transformation solutions to the business outcomes

• Ensures architecture designs/deployments are optimal (in relation to the below),

  - Leverages and champions an existing architecture approach

  - Supports architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization

  - Helps to shape and enhance customers requirements

  - Identifies, escalates, and works to resolve technical blockers

  - Adapts methodology and applies governance(e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework)

  - Checks the security baselines

• 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:
  1) Good verbal and written communications skills
  2) Able to work cohesively with the various teams
  3) Show initiative and responsibility for the tasks under the ownership
  4) 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.