Senior Manager - Enterprise Architecture

Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad seeks an IT Enterprise Architect to design and govern secure, scalable architectures across applications and platforms. You will lead enterprise architecture initiatives, collaborate with security, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure architecture aligns with strategic goals.

The role emphasizes DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, and exploring AI-driven initiatives to improve efficiency and value delivery for Prudential Malaysia.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture design and governance.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD and containerization.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design or modify existing architecture to deliver secure, highly available and fault tolerant solutions for new or existing applications/platforms.
• Oversee the overall design of the enterprise architecture (application, information, etc) with requirements, principles and models.
• Review technical requirements for projects in terms of platforms, security and regulatory needs.
• Plan and provide solution architecture for Prudential Malaysia related projects.
• Serve as technology evangelist to develop integrated solutions that demonstrate business value.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand priorities and align IT strategy with them.
• Work with infrastructure teams, IT security, project managers, and developers to ensure project delivery.
• Perform assessments or gap analyses of the current technology landscape and identify high-impact improvements.
• Develop transformation roadmaps and standardization strategies with relevant teams.
• Enable team members to gain skills in DevOps, CI/CD, containerization and related areas.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Containerization

AI initiatives

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

• Design or modify existing architecture to deliver secure, highly available and fault tolerant solution for new or existing applications/platforms.
• Responsible for the overall design of the enterprise architecture (application, information, etc) which describes through a set of requirements, principles and models, as well as current state, future state and guidance necessary to achieve effective enterprise change.
• As an IT enterprise-level role, this may involve overseeing a number of ongoing enterprise initiatives; and facilitate the flexible sharing and exchange of enterprise information. Review and assess technical requirement for projects in terms of platforms, security and regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for planning and providing solution architecture for prudential Malaysia related projects. This includes:
• Serve as the technology evangelist to develop new and latest integrated solutions for pilot or proof of concept that demonstrate business value.
• Communicate effectively through strong written and oral communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Serve as the technology evangelist to develop/deliver integrated solutions that demonstrate business value.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand business priorities and optimize IT strategies to support them. Scope to include full lifecycle, from approach strategy, architecture design, solution development, through installation and deployment.
• Work closely with other infrastructure teams, IT security, project managers, developers, etc to ensure project delivery.
• Perform assessments/gap analysis of current technology landscape and identify high impact areas of improvement along with target technology landscape.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to deliver transformation roadmaps, optimization and standardization strategies.
• Review design and technical documentation.
• Enable other team members to gain new skillset on new technical related areas for Prudential such as DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, etc.
• Experience in AI related initiatives and life cycle implementation is good to have.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer.

We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location.

We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.