It is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading financial institution, our client is looking for a Chief Architect. The selected candidate will be leading the technology innovations, architecture, standards, and governance across the whole firm. Senior Leadership position.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Technology Architecture team and Subject Matter Experts to establish policies, standards, reference architecture, and roadmaps.
• Provide technical guidance in developing vision and principles on API first, cloud-based services, and integrated DevOps model.
• Provide technical advice to CIO/CTO on various technology topics and aspects.
• Lead the creation of solution architectures considering business needs and technology limitations, with a selection of technology standards, describe configuration paradigms, and identify demand for reference architecture.
• Drive enterprise architecture goals, initiatives, and IT standards across the firm.
• Lead the solutions architects in building a strong architecture community.
• Build strong expertise with Domain Architects across various areas including Data, AI, Cloud, etc.
• Identify latest Information Systems trends and emerging technologies, and provide recommendations for enhancements or modifications to existing applications and systems where appropriate. Provide an assessment of associated risk and cost on related technology investment.
• Ability to see "the big picture" across the entire group and different business units from both technology and business aspects.
• Develop, communicate and deploy Enterprise Architecture Governance process with standards and policies.

Required skills/experience:

• Extensive Information Systems design and delivery experience involving enterprise-level architecture, systems, and databases.
• Extensive experience with Enterprise Architecture.
• Extensive experience in leading and managing architecture teams.
• Proven ability to identify innovation opportunities, define and deliver innovative business functions.
• Experience in working with multiple development methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, etc.
• Experience in designing enterprise services across multiple domains in a large enterprise environment. 
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in delivering API first designs.
• Experience in building enterprise Open-Cloud platforms is a great plus.
• Strong financial models and budgeting skills, able to determine the complete set of costs of technology.
• Effective influence, negotiation, and collaboration skills to work across counterparts and stakeholders.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization; Ability to draft high quality written products that are comprehensive, accurate, and tailored to the audience
• An innovative mindset, ability to identify and resolve complex project issues with new ideas.
• Experience with standard architecture methodologies such as TOGAF and Zachmann.

If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please send your resume in Word format to Danny Kwan at resume(at)pinpointasia(dot)com and put Chief Architect - Leading Financial Institution in the subject header.

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