Lead Solution Architect/ Technical Project Manager (over $80K, Java)

CL Technical Services Ltd.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

CL Technical Services Ltd. seeks a Lead Solution Architect/Technical Project Manager to design and govern scalable architectures across software, data, integrations, cloud, and security for high-volume pension transactions.

You will translate objectives into capability maps and roadmaps aligned with compliance and customer experience. You will mentor teams, drive modern patterns like microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, APIs, and CI/CD in an agile environment, and collaborate with stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in IT with 4+ years in solution/enterprise architecture, preferably financial services.
• Proven experience designing scalable systems for millions of users in compliance-driven environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to explain technical visions to non-technical audiences.
• Fluent in English and Cantonese; Putonghua a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of solution architectures covering software, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security for high-volume pension transactions.
• Translate objectives into capability maps, value streams, and roadmaps aligned with compliance, customer experience, and efficiency goals.
• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, cloud, and security; conduct reviews to resolve dependencies and ensure alignment.
• Identify and remediate technical debt in legacy systems, integrations, data quality, and security; prioritize IT initiatives by ROI, risk, and impact.
• Promote modern patterns: microservices, Kubernetes, event-driven systems (Kafka), APIs, and hybrid cloud; drive reuse to accelerate delivery.
• Research and prototype emerging technologies to enhance resilience, scalability, and performance for millions of users.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues; lead design/code reviews to maintain quality and avoid over-engineering.
• Govern projects with agile/DevOps practices including CI/CD, TDD, automation; manage vendor integrations.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, PDPO, and industry standards; embed security-by-design and disaster recovery.
• Mentor junior architects and developers, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Architectural design

Cloud native

Agile / DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Lead Solution Architect/ Technical Project Manager (over $80K, Java)

Lead design and development of solution architectures covering software, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security for high-volume pension transactions.

Work with stakeholders to translate objectives into capability maps, value streams, and roadmaps aligned with compliance, customer experience, and efficiency goals.

Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, cloud, and security; conduct reviews to resolve dependencies and ensure target-state alignment.

Identify and remediate technical debt in legacy systems, integrations, data quality, and security; prioritize IT initiatives by ROI, risk, and impact.

Promote modern patterns: microservices, Kubernetes, event-driven systems (Kafka), APIs, and hybrid cloud; drive reuse to accelerate delivery.

Research and prototype emerging technologies to enhance resilience, scalability, and performance for millions of users.

Act as escalation point for complex issues; lead design/code reviews to maintain quality and avoid over-engineering.

Govern projects with agile/DevOps practices including CI/CD, TDD, automation; manage vendor integrations.

Ensure compliance with financial regulations, PDPO, and industry standards; embed security-by-design and disaster recovery.

Mentor junior architects and developers, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

8+ years in IT, with 4+ years in solution/enterprise architecture, ideally in financial services or large-scale transactional platforms.

Proven experience designing scalable systems for millions of users in compliance-driven environments.

Skilled in agile/DevOps, TDD, CI/CD, and modern architectures (API-driven, domain-driven design, 4+1 views).

Experience managing technical debt, building ROI cases, and influencing C-level stakeholders.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to explain technical visions to non-technical audiences.

Fluent in English and Cantonese; Putonghua a plus.

Soft Skills: Analytical, collaborative, innovative, pragmatic decision-making, team coaching.