Role Introduction
Reports to: Head of Technology and Architecture
Join Cathay as an Enterprise Architect – Solution in our Information Technology Department. You will be the one to responsible for providing leadership and vision in developing enterprise solution architecture and strategy, defining frameworks, principles and standards, and developing the roadmaps to achieve the vision.
Thrive in a dynamic and agile environment that embraces AI and cutting-edge technologies. Our culture fosters teamwork and progressive thinking, while our internal mobility program offers diverse career opportunities.
Leverage your expertise to oversee architectural excellence in our New Technology Exploration team under the Enterprise Architect solution centre, ensuring we drive our technology strategy and ensure robust, scalable, and secured data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the enterprise solution architecture and roadmap definition, including architecture vision, principles, standards and policies, target state blueprints, and roadmap for the relevant solution domains
- Drive the adaption and reuse of design patterns and best practices
- Work closely with solution architects to define architecture runway to support agile development
- Work closely and collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to align the enterprise architecture strategy (for all business and technology domains)
- Support the definition and implementation of solution governance strategy to support realization of the enterprise solution architecture
- Lead analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Actively engage in and contribute to relevant solution design review activities and enterprise architecture governance forums and conduct project technical reviews and health checks
- Actively engage in the analysis of technology industry and spanet trends to determine their potential impact on the solution architecture
- Mentor solution architects and solution engineering team. Promote ideas for using the effective technologies
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, industry, and corresponding business domain
Requirements
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
- Minimum 12 years of IT experience with at least 7 years in an architecture or lead solution design related position.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud-native concepts, methods and related technologies
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Good business acumen, with an ability to understand and address business issues
- Excellent breadth of thinking, able to provide pragmatic solutions that consider all relevant constraints whether technical, financial, organizational, risk, or capability based
- Airline knowledge is an advantage
- TOGAF certification is preferred
Personal & Application Information
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