Solution Architect

Job Description

As a Solution Architect this is what you’ll do:

• Lead solution-driven discussion for Digital and Data Products
• This role will include preparation of product architecture deliverables based upon product architecture standards, creating conceptual product Architecture views, current state gapanalysis and target state product architecture views.
• Understand and evaluate existing and future state product objectives and ensure target state architecture alignment is cognizant of the Digital and Data business capability needs
• Create product architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the organization
• Conduct analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement.
• Ensure solutions developed across the organization are aligned to architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits)
• Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of product architecture to effectively support business strategy
• Review, analyse, and evaluate ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products, new technologies and business models for various business segments
• Assess business and technical functionality to support build, buy, or partner decisions
• Provide professionally designed solutions based on requirement analysis.
• Ensure a swift and smooth delivery of agreed services.
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate technical objectives/deliverables to a project plan.
• Translation of functional and non-functional requirements into a solution design document.
• Technical sign off on the implementation project to ensure that work done confers to best practices and delivers on functionality
• Apply and utilize business modelling methods to ensure results oriented deliverables in away that can be recreated and used as a corporate knowledge resource available to project level initiatives and executive decision making
• Act as a subject matter expert in the development of product architecture framework development, tool suite selection and design and methodology development
• Coaching and mentoring engineers in architecture best practices
• Operate in a collaborative manner by guiding technical discussions to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicates and backs that decision

• Regularly present the latest architectural decisions and direction via documentation and presentations to the rest of the Product Development team

• Guide software development and quality engineering team to rigorously improve inline service scalability, performance and robustness;

• Develop new product or feature prototypes for proof of concept (POC);
• Take hands-on development tasks on strategically important projects;
• Establish best practice across multiple engineering teams;

Job requirements

• Solid Computer Science fundamentals, excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience architecting, or operating -based applications or infrastructures with building at least one well-known successful product, ideally from inception to deployment;

• Combined experience of product development and architecture/design.
• Experience as a Full Stack developer with hands on experience in Technologies such as

NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJS, Typescript, Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Android, Graphql,

Elasticsearch, Redis, Distributed Computing

• Must have true startup spirit and be willing to wear multiple hats, including hands-on prototyping, architecture and software development work. Must be an strong advocate of leading by example

• Experience in a software design and architecture role, ideally in a SaaS based product organisation

• Experience communicating architecture direction and decisions through presentations and clear architectural diagrams to engineering / product groups Previous career track of progressive growth from software engineer, technical leader to software architect, with thorough hands-on development experience. Strong advocate of test-driven development methodology.

• Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases.
• Experience in customer journey mapping, product roadmaps, competitive analysis ,and

product architecture.

• A solid understanding of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices.
• Experience solving challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions aligning business needs to IT capabilities.

• Experience with business analysis and process impact analysis.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers

• Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Strong collaboration, communication and negotiation skills.
• Additional skills: agile methodologies, dynamic presentation, influencing and negotiating.
• Experience with AI/ML/eCommerce/Digital Health/Marketplaces/Blockchain technologies/solutions

• Experience with migrating workloads onto the cloud
• Technical expert of at least 3 of these domains: HTTP and SSL Proxy, Security Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Next-Generation Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, Server Load Balancing, Virtual Private Networks, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Kubernetes, VM and Container Networking;

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from a top university.
• Able to work within the GMT+8 time zone

 

What we offer

• An exciting and passionate working environment within a young and fast-growing company
• The opportunity to work with a high performing team
• A competitive salary package
• The ability to work from anywhere in the world (assuming a stable internet connection)
• The chance of being a fundamental part of the team and make a difference

What will the process look like?

• Application: you will submit an online application form, which will take you less than 10 mins

to complete

• Test: you will take a 45 min online test
• Interview: there will be 1-2 rounds of interviews