Job Purpose

-The Enterprise Architect leads initiatives using project management best practices and industry architecture frameworks. The Enterprise Architect leads design efforts, defines end-to-end architectures, oversees and performs research studies and presentations that include recommendations, and instructions for proposed implementations; formulating logical descriptions of problems; and recommending optimum solutions.

- The job holder building an enterprise architecture management framework (EA): Building an overall architectural framework, technology standards, and design methods for all technology fields. - The job holder ensure overall architectural direction: Control designs in projects, BAUs, ensure architectural direction and technology standards are followed

Key Accountabilities

1. Building general EA framework:

- Build general EA framework to meet Bank's business strategy

- Build technology standards, design methods in each period to meet Bank's business strategy

- Develop technology directions and plans for key technologies such as Cloud, Customer-centric architecture and Digital.

- Define reference enterprise architecture patterns for each key technology to support the organisation wide vision and individual business vertical strategies.

2. Ensuring general architecture orientation:

- Develop and maintain a group wide enterprise architecture framework (as is and to be) to ensure that the overall digital strategy and vision is maintained consistently and socialised across business verticals on a regular basis.

- Provide architectural guidance to multiple agile teams and across product portfolios and collaborate with relevant IT stakeholders to help drive the transition towards the target picture

- Assess and/or approve solution architectures to ensure the consistency with architecture standards and strategy

- Support teams across business verticals to execute the roadmaps in projects lifecycle while piloting key technologies (until the delivery).

- Review architecture in line with plan, assess level of compliance following standardized architecture

3. Other duties

- Participate in assigned technology projects and communicate with stakeholders across the IT and business to ensure that technology projects and initiatives support roadmap direction for shared platforms - Participates and effectively contributes to the IT portfolio management practice including framework, policies, procedures and processes.

- Enable transformation of technology in the Bank through introduction of new technologies or retirement of obsolete technologies and dealing with related risks

- Perform other tasks assigned by management

Success Profile - Qualification and Experiences

Qualifications

- Graduated in Information Technology or Banking

Work Experience

- Understand the bank's IT development strategy and roadmap in the next 5 years

- Experience in Life Insurance is preferable

- Able to propose solution architecture for some main business areas of the bank such as Payment, BPM, DW, Risks, Lending...

- Ability to coordinate with other units to carry out the work from ideation, to design and operation.

- Having expertise, deep understanding of analysis, design, selection of technical solutions

- At least 8 years of experience in practical implementation of many key solutions in end-to-end banking from business to application and deployment layer such as card, core, internet banking, data warehouse...

- Strong verbal and written communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with Technical teams and Business teams

- Experience guiding/teaching others in architecture principles, such as roadmaps, technical standards, non-functional requirements, and solution diagramming/documentation

- Demonstrated success working with standard software development lifecycle models, deliverables/artifacts and tools, SOA concepts and design patterns

- Experience designing scalable/reliable/flexible/secure solutions across heterogeneous hardware platforms, operating systems, middlewares, and infrastructure technologies

- Technical experience with architecture, technology stacks, or overall architectural governance

- Experience with cloud computing and/or other virtualization technologies

- Experience establishing and documenting standards, guidelines, and best practices