Solution Architect

Working Hour

Regular Hours
Monday - Friday

Business Area

Digital Technology

Location

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Description

**Primary Objective**:
Center of Excellence (COE) for Engineering Design under Digital Technology & Engineering, Group Digital Transformation consists of architecture professionals:

- Solution Architects in charge of pre-development design
- Technology specialists who provides design expertise as well as interface for Digital L3 support on Platform, Integration, Software and Database.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- High Level Design_
- Own and drive the development of e2e solution design for an Epic/Requirement from Business Spike/Exploratory stage, Technical Spike/Integration Design stage and Application Design stage to achieve high velocity design.
- Conduct design architect reviews, gap analysis and assessment
- Become the representative for the COE during Business Spike/Exploratory stage as Solution Architect where business requirements are still uncertain and prone to scope creep to shape and influence effective design and predictable input for Technical Spike/Integration Design stage.
- Understand the user / business’s needs, system functionality and business process to maintain the source and act as internal Consultant during the business spike review
- Work with the IT organization and business units to obtain business requirements for product, performance and improvements
- Ensure the existing and future information systems are implemented according to the organization’s goals, needs and objectives
- Work with team to prepare architectural design documentation, including diagrams and inventories
- Maintain a pulse check with other digital COEs on issues dealing with the quality flaws of existing standards
- Ensure designs are aligned to target state architecture or its intermediate states on the roadmap when working with Business and Technical counterparts.
- Participate in cross functional project planning activities to ensure project success
- Application/Integration/Platform Design_
- Create and maintain a format data structures, data description and architecture
- The architecture work covers the data integration and the means to request & receive the data between various system within or outside the bank.
- Resolve all types of design and test data issues raised by the development team
- Design and implement small to large scale integration solutions adopting various technologies such as JSON, XML, JAVA, REST/MQ APIs.
- Design specifications and high level data architecture documentation which exemplify the target & source destination which includes the data mapping
- Evaluate the system & consider the techniques for better system functionalities
- Influence and incorporate industry best practices at every design stage
- Take ownership of the software non-functional requirements
- Able to work independently to produce required design
- Ensure effective collaboration with business analysts and stakeholders to understand and design as per requirements
- Ensure API specification stability for EAI/Host/3rd party systems prior to a development sprint.
- Ensure effective collaboration with developers to implement software design
- Work with Software/Platform/Data/Database Architects to prepare technical design for epic/business requirements at optimal performance.
- Keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile/web technologies.
- Design Improvement Loop_
- Ensure effective collaboration with Architect peers and Developers to tackle platform technical debt and performance scaling.
- Learn continuously to evolve COE Engineering Design domain expertise
- Represent the team in relevant external events and forums.
- Contribute new knowledge to Chapter and the industry in form of talks or articles.
- BAU_
- License renewal checker for software subscriptions
- API Planning and Update checker

**Requirements**:
**Requirements**:Bachelor Degree - Bachelor of Engineering/Computer Science/IT or related domains..
- Certification in related Technology and Process Best practices is an advantage. E.g. TOGAF, Agile Certification.

7 years and above in ICT, with experience in software engineering, API and architecture design.

Experience in the Banking/Finance industry going digital is recommended. Cross-industry experience is an advantage.
- Experience as a Solution/Application/Integration/Enterprise Architect with hands-on experience developing systems and software design for mission critical business.
- Understands 2-speed architecture decoupling fast digital and stable enterprise domain.
- Knowledgeable in enterprise messaging and queuing middleware such as IBM MQ and in distributed streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Knowledge on MQ API and XML data mapping
- Experience in UNIX, LINUX scripting and SQL statement
- Ability to draft an accurate documentation that supports PMO and other Architects team
- Knowledge in principles of software design specifically for web-ba