Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect — Hybrid Work, Health Benefits

HFM; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (2 days WFH)

Health insurance

Annual leave 21 days

Referral bonus

Job summary

HFM is seeking a Lead Enterprise Solutions Architect to guide architecture and review processes, and to design the largest cross-cutting initiatives in Kuala Lumpur.

You will lead a team of Enterprise Solutions Architects, establish governance, translate business requirements into robust, scalable solutions, and ensure compliance with architecture standards. Fluent English is required; Malaysian work authorization is assumed.

Qualifications

• 14+ years in hands-on engineering and architecture.
• 4+ years in an architecture role and leading other architects.
• Fluency in English; additional languages would be considered an advantage.
• Proven experience designing and running an architecture review or design authority.
• Deep expertise in distributed system design, integration architecture and non-functional requirements across multiple technology domains.
• Strong data architecture skills across SQL and NoSQL databases: schema design, complex queries, query optimization and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of AWS, containers, Kubernetes and CI/CD; AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional preferred) or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio-level thinking, and the ability to cost designs in build effort and run cost.
• Experience leading vendor and build-versus-buy evaluations to a documented recommendation.
• Excellent communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture review process, including intake, tiering, turnaround targets and recorded decisions.
• Keep reviews proportionate: fast-track routine work using published patterns and fully review cross-cutting, costly or novel designs.
• Lead, develop and assign Enterprise Solutions Architects across initiatives and IT vertical groups, enabling them to own initiatives independently.
• Chair cross-domain architecture reviews and hold final design approval for compliance with architecture standards.
• Own solution design and Architecture Decision Record standards, the pattern library and exception register.
• Personally lead solution design for the largest, most cross-cutting and most contested initiatives.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust, scalable solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Integration architecture

Data architecture

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Costing designs

Vendor evaluations

Stakeholder communication

Design governance

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Pattern library

CI/CD tools

Job description

HFM is seeking a Lead Enterprise Solutions Architect to guide architecture and review processes, and to design the largest cross-cutting initiatives in Kuala Lumpur.

You will lead a team of Enterprise Solutions Architects, establish governance, translate business requirements into robust, scalable solutions, and ensure compliance with architecture standards. Fluent English is required; Malaysian work authorization is assumed.