Job Responsibilities

• Recommends and participates in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture (EA).
• Researches overall technology and solutions on the market for particular technical requirements and business needs
• Provides technical leadership and responsible for establishing the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation approaches for the organisation’s IT systems
• Design the architecture blueprint of the organisation's business, data and ICT assets. Use, govern and enhance the architecture blueprint to ensure that the business and ICT are in alignment.
• Work with the various internal teams to design and architect end-to-end solution to meet the business requirement
• Propose architectural design in alignment with business requirements and able to justify technically the design considerations between the different available technologies.
• Creates, evaluates and propose IT solutions, involving leading edge technologies taking into consideration of its cost effectiveness, practicality, technical limitations and criticality
• Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge.
• Identifies and recommends areas appropriate for further evaluation and work on Proof of Concept required to thoroughly evaluate architectural possibilities and strengthen arguments for their adoption.
• Manage the Group Technology Panel process for gating of IT investment and change request
• Manage and provide guidance to develop and grow team members

Job Requirements

• Degree in Business and IT with professional certification in IT project management and enterprise architecture
• 5 to 7 years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications with at least 3 years hands-on experience as a technical lead and system architect role
• A solid software development background
• Experience with cloud architecture on Azure (preferred) / AWS
• Solid understanding of Server-side, .Net and/or Java development, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), web services, microservices and digital services development
• Experience in designing, developing and deploying large, scalable production applications on cloud/PaaS platforms and Containers, such as AWS, Azure and OpenShift
• Exposure to middleware and different messaging / API management technologies
• Working knowledge of DevOps software development tools and methodologies
• Able to independently analyze and identify comprehensive solutions considering all functional implications while developing a workable solution
• Results and customer oriented
• Team player with strong organization and interpersonal skills
• Strong written, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Preference for candidate with deep domain knowledge in retail, commercial or hospitality sectors
• Experience with managing teams with prior people development experience

Interested candidates please send your CV to [email protected]