Enterprise/Application Architect

Role: Enterprise/Application Architect
Job Level: 6-9 years of experience (L3)

Duration: 12 Months (renewable) 

Client: Banking


Key responsibilities:

• Participating in defining and operating the architecture governance process to ensure change initiatives align to the vision and roadmaps.

• Working closely with Domain Architects across key initiatives and projects to apply architecture principles and standards and develop reference architectures and design patterns.

• Communicating the principles, standards, vision, and roadmaps to stakeholders and proactively addressing any questions / concerns identified

• Providing thought leadership on architectural or other topics, developing a forward-looking view of current and emerging technologies and their impact on the Enterprise Architecture

• Maintain and improve the process and tools to enable Enterprise Architect functions, owns, and enhances workflows and processes, and delegates with clear accountabilities across the teams to meet objectives / outcomes, which mainly driven with JIRA software

• Embedding Platform Thinking in everything


Key requirements and skills/domain required:

• Experience in using JIRA for at least 2 years and open to learn visual apps like Kibana, Elastic

• Excellent analytical skills (critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills)

• A passion for learning and the willingness to solve problems.

• Strong negotiation skill and results orientated.

• Good in time management and able to multi-tasking.

• Good team player and able to drive consensus amongst stakeholders with conflicting viewpoints and objectives.

• Capability to think conceptually and identify patterns across seemingly unrelated situations.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or equivalent



 A Big Plus

o Technically strong in different integration mechanisms with open systems, AS400 and Mainframe

o Comfortable in working in an environment which is vendor intensive.

o Ability to communicate complex topics in an understandable way using a level of detail and terms appropriate to the situation.

o Formal architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent)