Solution Architect

DFI Retail Group; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DFI Retail Group in Hong Kong is seeking a Solution Architect to bridge digital architecture vision and practical implementation. You will ensure technology choices and project designs align with business goals and architecture principles.

You will translate product requirements into scalable designs, test feasibility and dependencies early in BRD stages, and work with security, data, and platform standards across the Group Tech landscape.

Qualifications

• Seniority: 6–10+ years in solution architecture, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, or systems integration.
• Experience designing cross-system solutions across apps, APIs, middleware, data flows, security, and enterprise platforms.
• Cross-functional exposure: Worked across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, vendors, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Pressure-test feasibility, integration complexity, and dependencies early in BRD / funding stage
• Translate product requirements into scalable technical solution designs
• Ensure solutions align with Group Tech architecture, security, data, and platform standards
• Support engineering handoff and resolve solution-design issues during build

Skills

Solution architecture

Digital engineering

Enterprise architecture

APIs & integration

Cloud security

Tools

APIs

Middleware

Security governance

Job description

Is this your next challenge as a Solution Architect?

We seek an employeeto bridge the gap between digital architecture vision and practical implementation, ensuring technology choices and project designs align with business goals and architecture principles.

The challenge is to:

Key Accountabilities

• Pressure-test feasibility, integration complexity, and dependencies early in BRD / funding stage
• Translate product requirements into scalable technical solution designs
• Ensure solutions align with Group Tech architecture, security, data, and platform standards
• Support engineering handoff and resolve solution-design issues during build

Decision Rights

• Recommend solution options and architecture trade-offs
• Challenge designs that create technical debt, integration risk, or duplicated builds
• Escalate unresolved architecture, security, dependency, or feasibility issues
• Advise on buy / configure / build choices
• Sign off solution readiness before build, where relevant
• Systems and architecture judgment: Understands how digital, data, platform, and enterprise systems connect, and can design scalable, maintainable solutions
• Feasibility and trade-off thinking: Makes pragmatic trade-offs across speed, cost, complexity, risk, reuse, and long-term architecture integrity
• Business-tech translation: Converts product and business intent into technical solution options that business and engineering teams can both understand
• Governance and risk discipline: Applies security, data, integration, observability, and non-functional guardrails without over-engineering
• Format proximity and influence: Works close to format priorities while aligning Product, Tech, Architecture, Data, Security, and vendors around one solution

Requirements:

• Seniority: 6 -10+ years in solution architecture, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, or systems integration
• Scope: Experience designing cross-system solutions across apps, APIs, middleware, data flows, security, and enterprise platforms
• Cross-functional exposure: Worked across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, vendors, and business teams
• Technical knowledge: APIs, integration patterns, cloud, security, non-functional requirements, and architecture governance

If you have the right skills and experience, this is an opportunity to build your career with Asia's leading retailer.

DFI Retail Group is an equal opportunity employer and responsible for ensuring that all personal information collected from each Candidate presented to DFI Retail Group is used for recruitment purposes only and the personal data will be kept and handled confidentially.

We will retain the applications of candidates not selected for a period of no more than 24 months.

The data collection process is in accordance with all applicable laws and compliant with the Code of Practice on Human Resource Management.

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