Enterprise Architect

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 in the company 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 (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 staff s and stakeholders.


QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES
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)
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, 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
Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm
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