Our client is an established and reputable IT solution provider.  To cope with their growing digital business, they are looking for capable individuals to join their digital team as Technical Architect.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development of the application architecture and facilitate its adoption; review technology selection and system designs for compliance with established architecture
• Lead in delivering the architectural design of enterprise scale, end-to-end solution for major projects;
• Work with the Business Analyst to understand business requirements and to map business needs to technical solutions.
• Provide hands-on solution design, technical specification and guidance on development and integrations
• Create the optimum technical solution in the context of the customer's environment, requirements, and financial resources
• Ensure a quality system design which provides good system performance, an effective human-machine interface, optimal operational cost, and flexibility for future change
• Maximize the productivity of the development team by installing an effective development environment, establishing programming, design, and other technical standards, training team members, and providing advisory and trouble-shooting support
• Responsible for all technical aspects of systems integration and configuration.
• Provide a focal point for all technical issues and initiatives on the project
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly implemented.
• Travel abroad if necessary

Requirements:

• Degree or Higher Diploma in IT, Computer Science or a related discipline
• 10 plus years of experience in technology with at least 2 years of architectural responsibilities (solution or application architecture)
• Related experience in insurance application is highly regarded
• Strong experience in System Integration (SI) architecture solution design and delivery with diverse technology spectrum
• Possess strategic insight with the ability to integrate the latest technologies into the architecture design to elevate the performance of the overall solutions
• Excellent communication skill, ability to present and communicate the proposed solution and design professionally with client’s technical stakeholders (CTO, architecture office, IT Department…)
• Dynamic and adaptive to the global collaborative project team environment
• Have leadership skills - be able to lead discussions as well as strong delivery focus.
• Have excellent knowledge of software development life cycle (from concept to deployment and support) across multiple methodologies in particular waterfall and agile practices with ability to apply these in an adaptive and appropriate manner
• Proven experience in managing and coordinating multiple IT groups, service providers and business users in application development and support
• Experience on execute and support on application performance test, penetration test and automated testing with different tools.
• Strong knowledge in application development methodologies, Service Oriented Architecture, object-oriented analysis and design, Web Service development, Message-oriented Middleware, Java EE implementation, RDMS and NOSQL, etc.
• Extensive experience in the following technology stack:

1. Operation System: Ubuntu, Linux, Windows
2. Web Server:  Nginx, Apache, Redix
3. Application Server: Node.js, Redhat JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere,
4. Database: Oracle, MS SQL, Couchbase, Mongo,
5. Language: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
6. Framework: Ionic-angular, Ionic-Native, Apache Cordova, Angular JS 2 or above, ReactJS/ReactNative/VueJS, Spring, JDK1.8, NodeJS, Swift
7. Dev Tools: GIT, Source Tree, Eclipse, VSCode, Android SDK/ Xcode

• Experience in various virtualization technology e.g Docker, and micro service, OpenAPI, OpenShift and deployment automation to cloud platform such as Azure, AWS etc.
• Experience on SOA and BPM implementation is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to work independently and with cross-function teams
• Ability to deliver results in short timeframe and adaptable to changes
• Proficiency in Putonghua is a strong advantage

Very attractive package will be offered to the right candidate. Interested candidates please forward your resume in MS-word format, stating career history and salary expected. A private and confidential discussion will be arranged for shortlisted candidates. All data collected will be used for recruitment purpose only