Job Description
About the Role
The Enterprise & Application Architect plays a crucial role in designing and implementing high-level strategies/solution. The talent is responsible for creating architecture blueprints that guide the development and integration of Swift-wide systems and applications, optimizing efficiency, scalability, and security. The talent is also responsible to provide expert input to the IT/Networking strategy to ensure that the technical options are in line with the company strategy. In the talent's quality of Application architect, the talent is also an expert in a specific domain to assist the tribe with all architectural matters.
This role requires a combination of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and effective communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders across departments and levels.What to expect?
- Conduct strategic analysis of architecture improvements, models and new products. These analyses will be conducted in liaison with other architects, product owners, customers and third-party suppliers.
- Provide expert technical assistance during design activities and to resolve issues ensuring design alignment within and cross "Tribes".
- Contribute to Enterprise level with the EA Architects. Contribute to the governances and best practices, identification and principle for reusability, elaboration of taxonomy and classification.
- Provide technical support to the Pivotal initiatives and large programs. Contribute to the Architecture Review Board process.
- Participate to technology assessments, Proofs-of-Concept, and support technology selection.
- Maintain advanced knowledge of architecture technologies and future industry trends.
- Participate in the review of existing implementation with the goal to further improve on the non-functional requirements such as resilience, performance and maintainability of the solution.
- Assess new requests to derive budget (Capex/Opex) assumptions based on complexity.
What will make you successful?
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.
- 6 to 8+ years of experience with 3 of them in Architecture or similar technical role and demonstrable track record in the following:
- Technical strategy and design patterns
- Ability to articulate a big picture and map to next level of detail, as well as synthesize a big picture from diverse components
- Problem solving attitude and ability to conduct technical analysis
- Strong writing and verbal skills including design documentation, collaborator presentations, tailoring communication to audience
- Strong interpersonal skills, customer centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technology and adopt it, and knowledge of industry trends
- Dedicated, and a good great teammate, comfortable working collaboratively with diverse local and remote teams in different time zones.
The following skills will be considered beneficial:
- Practical working experience in an Agile driven team.
- Architecture certifications
- Business analysis experience
- Database technology (including relational, NO SQL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Security: PKI, PKCS, TLS, HSM, SAML, OAuth etc.
- Container strategy and related security including Docker, Open-Shift/Kubernettes
- Cloud strategy and related security
- Familiarity or experience with data ingestion architectural pattern with big data technologies (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana and Kafka) will be an advantage.
- Familiarity or experience with SOA technologies such as micro-services, REST is a plus.
- Familiarity or experience with CICD principles.
- Development and Deployment know-how. The role does not need direct development and deployment work, but having knowledge and experience helps in conversation/management.
You may want to reach out to the recruiter for more information via LinkedIn; Victor Ooi, Senior Talent Acquisition.
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