Well-known personal financial services company

• Collaborate with key business and IT stakeholders to define solutions according to business requirements and align with company’s long term strategies
• Define application architecture standards, maintain application design guideline, and provide development toolkits by following the application architecture strategies, principles and roadmap.
• Drive system/ software architecture design using suitable technologies that meets quality and security standards
• Implement computer systems by analysing problems and requirements; designing and testing standards and solutions
• Explore new technology and perform proof of concept to enhance design guideline
• Maintain, harvest, and promote registered building block and development toolkits to facilitate systems analysts and developers in architecture-based development.
• Provide supervision and guidance to development teams
• Adhere to all established risk control guidelines, procedures and measures to identify, assess, report, mitigate and monitor the risks involved in the day-to-day work
• Report to: Vice President, Information Technology
• Subordinate(s): System Analyst, Senior Analyst Programmer, Analyst Programmer & Programmer

• Degree or above in Computer Science, IT or related discipline
• Minimum 8 years of IT experience preferably in the financial sector with proven experience in application architecture design
• Extensive technical knowledge in Java with experience in Spring Boot/Cloud and related application framework
• Good comprehension of micro-services, Docker, containers, and Kubernetes
• Familiar with DevOps and software deployment process
• Experience with mobile, SOA and API gateway solution architecture
• Sound knowledge in IT security, performance tuning, capacity planning, storage, networking and various database systems such as Oracle and MySQL
• Good analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience with managing and leading remote team will be an advantage
• Immediate availability is highly preferred