COMPANY DESCRIPTION
ALTO Network is a leading payment infrastructure provider as well as the pioneer in payment solution by always bringing the most innovative and impactful technology to connect merchants or financial institutions with their customers to grow their businesses nationwide and beyond.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Role Purpose
Oversee and drive the organization’s enterprise architecture and cybersecurity strategy, ensuring that application and technology landscapes are aligned with business objectives, secure by design, and enable innovation. The role is responsible for defining target architecture, governing technology standards, embedding cybersecurity controls, and managing risks to support sustainable, scalable, and compliant digital growth.
Leadership (A)
- Team Leadership: Provide visionary leadership to the enterprise architecture team, setting strategic goals and objectives.
- Talent Management: Recruit, develop, and retain top talent within the team, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
- Mentorship: Act as a mentor to team members, helping them grow professionally and enhancing their technical and leadership skills.
- Establish and chair an Architecture Board (or equivalent) with decision rights over standards
Customer Service (B)
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a strategic advisor to senior management and business leaders, understanding their objectives and translating them into architectural solutions.
- Requirements Analysis: Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to gather and analyze their requirements and ensure that architecture aligns with business needs.
- Facilitate operating model clarity workshops with business leaders (Coordination/Unification/Diversification/Replication) and translate outcomes into architectural guardrails
Operational Management (C)
- Resource Allocation: Collaborate with project managers and IT leaders to allocate resources efficiently and optimize project outcomes.
- Budget Management: Manage budgets for enterprise architecture projects, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness.
- Process Improvement: Continuously improve operational processes within the enterprise architecture practice to enhance efficiency.
- Ensure architecture compliance in delivery define checkpoints (inception, solution intent, pre‑build, pre‑release) and a lightweight waiver process; track compliance rates and aging waivers
Relationship Management (D)
- Stakeholder Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that their needs are understood and met.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Facilitate communication and collaboration between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring a shared understanding of architectural solutions.
- Publish an Architecture Principles set and enforce architecture compliance reporting to the Architecture Board and Risk Committee
Good Corporate Governance (E)
- Ethical Conduct: Uphold and promote ethical standards within the enterprise architecture team and ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and corporate policies.
- Transparency: Ensure transparency in decision-making processes and communicate openly with stakeholders about architectural choices and their impact.
Knowledge
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Archimate
- Application and Database Development
- Infrastructure (On-prem & Cloud)
- Messaging tool (Kafka, etc), Cache (Redis, etc)
- SDLC, Agile
- ISO 8583
- International Standards – PCI DSS, PCI PIN, ISO (ISO 9001, ISO 20001, ISO 27001, ISO 277001)
- Enterprise Architecture
- TOGAF
- Configuration Management Database
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise Application (ERP, CRM, ITSM, AI, O365)
- Service Desk
- Laptop and Asset Management
Skills and Abilities
Non-technical
- Leadership
- Man Management
- Decision Making
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Presentation
- Interpersonal Skills
- Collaboration
- Commitment
Technical
- Enterprise Architecture
- Archimate
- EA Tool (BizzDesign, LeanIX, etc)
- Microserivce, API
- Programming Language (Java, Golang, etc)
- Database (SQL, NoSQL)
- Cloud and On-prem Architecture
- ERP, CRM, ITSM, AI, O365
- Laptop and Asset Management
QUALIFICATIONS
Experience: Mininum 12 years of work experience in Application Development/System Analysis/Solution Architecture
Qualifications: Technical
- Enterprise architecture principles and practices.
- Archimate
- EA tool
- Microservice, API
- Cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Software development methodologies and best practices.
- Database design and management.
- Security and compliance standards.
- Knowledge of programming languages/frameworks and their supporting tools (Java Springboot, Golang, Kafka, Redis, etc)
- ERP, CRM, ITSM, AI, O365
- Laptop and Asset Management
- Leadership skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, and guide teams toward achieving strategic objectives.
- Proven ability to think strategically, align enterprise architecture with business goals, and anticipate and address future technology trends and challenges.
- Track record of successfully managing relationships with cross-functional team and senior executive.
- Sound decision-making skills, including the ability to assess risks, weigh options, and make informed choices.
- Strong commitment to upholding ethical standards and promoting ethical behavior within the team and the organization.