Total 1 solution architect job vacancies in Finance / Banking / Insurance category

Job Responsibilities

1) Data Platform & Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Define and execute the APAC data platform architecture strategy, aligned with global priorities and regulatory/local market requirements.
• Architect scalable, secure, future-ready data platforms that support business change and modernization outcomes.
• Integrate and modernize legacy systems and disparate data sources into unified, trusted data ecosystems enabling analytics, AI/ML, and GenAI.
• Drive adoption of open systems and standard architectures to improve agility, interoperability, and resilience.

2) Delivery Management & Execution (Architecture-through-Delivery)

• Be accountable for successful delivery of a regional data platform, including day-to-day coordination and delivery oversight.
• Partner with sponsors/stakeholders to define goals, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Support requirements/backlog prioritization, user stories, and alignment ceremonies (stand-ups, showcases/POCs, SteerCo, working groups).
• Create and deliver against detailed project plans; track dependencies, manage delivery risks, and ensure timely execution.
• Manage budgets/forecasts and oversee external vendors/data providers.

3) Governance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Establish and embed architecture principles, standards, and governance, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment.
• Chair/lead architecture forums as needed and provide strategic oversight for significant technology programs.
• Build strong relationships across regional/country technology leadership, product, delivery teams, external vendors, and Head Office (Japan).
• Drive architecture advocacy via workshops and knowledge sharing across business and technology communities.

4) Engineering Excellence (Quality, Simplicity, Performance)

• Apply strong software engineering practices: code profiling/optimization, debugging complex issues, and choosing appropriate languages/paradigms.
• Drive pragmatic design: SOLID/cohesion, idempotence, domain modelling, performance-by-design; familiarity with CQRS and eventual consistency.
• Promote modern delivery practices: automation by default, CI/CD, automated security scanning and performance testing.

5) Reliability, Observability, Security & Compliance

• Design for reliability, performance, and availability and ensure platforms meet both user needs and business goals.
• Facilitate adoption of platforms with embedded observability, risk, and compliance controls.
• Ensure secure-by-default engineering, including server hardening fundamentals and use of SSL/encryption principles.

6) People & Talent Leadership

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering/delivery teams and the architecture community.
• Lead design discussions, gain buy-in, and develop others through coaching and knowledge sharing.

Job Requirements

• Experience: Minimum 10 years delivering in strong engineering teams, with proven delivery ownership for data/technology initiatives.
• Strong background in enterprise/data/solution architecture and modernization programs (cloud adoption and large-scale integrated solutions exposure preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across engineering, product, and senior business leaders; ability to collaborate across APAC and with Japan/global teams.
• Solid foundation across:
• Software engineering and design practices (performance, SOLID, idempotence, domain modelling).
• DevOps/automation and CI/CD with security/performance testing automation.
• Infrastructure basics (OS, scripting, networking) and data storage paradigms; ability to automate PaaS usage.
• Security principles (secure coding, hardening, encryption/SSL).