Senior Principal, Customer Platform Architect (Cloud & AI)

AIA Australia; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Australia is seeking a Senior Technology Leader to provide technical leadership for the Customer Platform, drive architecture governance, and ensure delivery excellence across BAU and strategic initiatives. You will collaborate with product, cloud, security and risk teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

In this role you will lead solution design, mentor engineering teams, coordinate cloud and on-premise integrations, and contribute to the technology roadmap with a

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in technical leadership, solution architecture, or senior engineering roles.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in complex environments.
• Hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred).
• Ideally AI knowledge and experience.
• Understanding of modern application architecture, APIs, microservices, and integration patterns.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Architecture or cloud certifications are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and technical architecture for customer-facing platforms.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams across the delivery lifecycle.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, cloud, security, and risk stakeholders.
• Drive system integration across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Contribute to technology roadmap, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead platform operations: monitoring, incident, change management, and releases.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases aligned with business priorities.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Microservices

APIs

Communication

Hands-on Engineering

Cloud (Azure)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

Job description

AIA Australia is seeking a Senior Technology Leader to provide technical leadership for the Customer Platform, drive architecture governance, and ensure delivery excellence across BAU and strategic initiatives. You will collaborate with product, cloud, security and risk teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

In this role you will lead solution design, mentor engineering teams, coordinate cloud and on-premise integrations, and contribute to the technology roadmap with a