Strategic IT Infrastructure Platform Architect

Global Executive Consultants Ltd.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Hong Kong is seeking a high-caliber individual to manage IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in IT system architecture and a solid background in various infrastructure technologies, including cloud platforms. Strong analytical skills and good communication abilities in English and Chinese are essential. This role involves evaluating products, developing strategies, and ensuring compliance with regulations while working closely with infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in IT system architecture.
• Knowledge in various infrastructure technologies.
• Strong command of English and Chinese.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate products, services, and vendors.
• Develop infrastructure technology strategies.
• Conduct architecture reviews and root cause analysis.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and standards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Technical skills

Teamwork

Facilitation

Communication

Education

University graduate in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Cloud Platforms (Azure / AWS / Google / Alibaba Cloud)

Server technologies

Networking technologies

Database technologies

Job description

Our client, a Financial Institution, is looking for high-caliber person to fill the position.

Job Duties

• Participate in evaluation of products, services and vendors
• Ensure H/W, S/W, Cloud infrastructure technologies are being evaluated to improve infrastructure operation
• Advise critical emerging application or infrastructure technologies
• Develop infrastructure technology platform strategies, directions & roadmap to meet capability & capacity requirements for business operation & growth through benchmarking& adoption of best practices
• Support Infrastructure teams to define architecture standards & strategies based on Infrastructure vision, industrial standards & best practices to enable manageable, scalable and high-performance infrastructure environment
• Conduct architecture reviews, approval and root cause analysis for complex issues and develop strategies for security baseline, governance, resilience, disaster recovery inseamless on-premise and cloud environments
• Support infrastructure teams to analyze, recommend & support platform technology
• Review & validate infrastructure solutions for complex or non-standard configurations proposed by project teams
• Carry out Infrastructure related task in accordance with IT support strategy for Overseas Branches Compliance & Risk Management
• Comply with all applicable regulations, rules, codes, guidelines and standards set by regulators and the Bank, and carry out duties with high integrity; and
• Adhere to all established risk control guidelines, procedures and measures to identify, assess, report, mitigate and monitor the risks involved in the day-to-day work

Job Requirements

• University graduate in Computer Science or equivalent; OR Preferable over 8 years’ working experience in IT covering the following:
• Solid experience of IT system architecture areas
• Broad range of knowledge in Infrastructure technologies, including but not limited to Cloud Platforms (Azure / AWS/ Google/ Alibaba Cloud), Server, Network, Endpoint, Database, Middleware, and Virtualization or application development tool/process
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Certification holder of CISSP or CISA will be an advantage
• Good communication and interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation
• Good command of both spoken & written English & Chinese