Senior Enterprise Data Architect - Data & AI Strategy

Securities and Futures Commission (SFC); Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to shape its data foundation and establish architecture for trusted data governance, integration, sharing and use across the organisation.

The role translates the Data & AI strategy into a practical target architecture and roadmap spanning data platforms, information models, metadata, data quality and governance capabilities.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of senior technology leadership experience in financial services, market infrastructure, government, regulation, or other complex environments.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale engineering, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, data, and AI teams.
• Deep expertise in modern engineering, cloud-native architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and secure delivery.
• Experience governing data platforms, AI, machine learning, and generative AI in production.
• Strong track record in modernization, service reliability, disaster recovery, supplier risk, cybersecurity, and privacy.
• Mission-led, pragmatic, and delivery-oriented with ability to simplify complex issues.
• Excellent senior stakeholder and collaboration skills across technology, policy, supervision, regulation, risk, and regulators.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, principles, standards and roadmap.
• Develop and govern the enterprise information model and target-state data landscape.
• Establish architecture patterns for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Set standards for data modelling, integration, metadata, quality and lifecycle management.
• Ensure architecture decisions support regulatory objectives and business needs.
• Lead architecture governance for Data & AI initiatives and provide architecture assurance.
• Collaborate with divisions, security and governance teams to ensure coherent end-to-end solutions.
• Guide engineers and delivery partners on architecture patterns and standards.
• Manage architecture risks, technical debt and lifecycle considerations.
• Maintain architecture documentation and communicate recommendations to governance forums.

Job description

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to shape its data foundation and establish architecture for trusted data governance, integration, sharing and use across the organisation.

The role translates the Data & AI strategy into a practical target architecture and roadmap spanning data platforms, information models, metadata, data quality and governance capabilities.