Senior Data Solution Architect, GWAM Asia (Hybrid)

Manulife; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 1,100,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Manulife in Hong Kong seeks a Lead Data Solution Architect to own the end-to-end data architecture roadmap for GWAM Asia. You will personally design solutions, build reference implementations, and review code across ingestion, curation, and data products.

The role covers multi-market platform design across Asia, governance, RBAC, and GenAI integration, with cross‑functional teams in Manila and Chengdu. Fluency in English required; Mandarin desirable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/Engineering/Info Systems/Data Management or related field.
• 10+ years in data architecture, solution architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platforms.
• Hands-on with Azure Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Python, SQL, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Storage.
• Experience with batch and streaming pipelines, APIs/cloud integration, reporting, analytics, and data products.
• Experience designing multi-country data platforms with RBAC and data residency constraints.
• DevSecOps/CI-CD, cloud security, data protection, monitoring, and resilience.
• Strong communication and prioritisation skills in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop GWAM Asia data architecture roadmap aligned with priorities and strategy.
• Architect end-to-end data solutions across ingestion, storage, models, and data products.
• Translate business objectives into target‑state architectures, options, data requirements, and roadmaps.
• Lead design reviews and guide跨-functional delivery teams in Manila and Chengdu.
• Define standards for data pipelines, lakehouse design, APIs, DevSecOps, observability, security and resilience.
• Maintain architecture artefacts and drive proofs of concept for emerging technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Management, or related discipline

Tools

Azure Databricks

Unity Catalog

Spark/PySpark

Python

SQL

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Databricks Lakehouse

Job description

Manulife in Hong Kong seeks a Lead Data Solution Architect to own the end-to-end data architecture roadmap for GWAM Asia. You will personally design solutions, build reference implementations, and review code across ingestion, curation, and data products.

The role covers multi-market platform design across Asia, governance, RBAC, and GenAI integration, with cross‑functional teams in Manila and Chengdu. Fluency in English required; Mandarin desirable.