Senior Software Architect & Tech Lead

Manulife John Hancock; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife John Hancock is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead end-to-end design of digital apps, APIs, and platform enhancements in a Malaysia-based role. You will translate requirements into scalable solutions, develop architecture artifacts, and ensure governance and security compliance.

You will guide a small engineering team, perform design reviews, and align technical choices with business outcomes, while fostering learning and engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant software development experience across front-end, back-end, integration, and database technologies.
• Proven experience in solution design, system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design for digital applications, integrations, APIs, and platform enhancements.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture documents, system context and integration flows, API specs, data models, and detailed designs.
• Evaluate technical options, identify trade-offs, and recommend approaches aligned with standards.
• Ensure solutions comply with cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor a team of 3-5 engineers through delivery lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and timely resolution of blockers.
• Allocate work based on priorities, capacity, and dependencies.
• Conduct peer reviews, code reviews, and quality checks to maintain standards.

Skills

Solution design

System architecture

Full-stack development

Angular

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Katalon

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT / IS

Tools

Katalon

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Manulife John Hancock is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead end-to-end design of digital apps, APIs, and platform enhancements in a Malaysia-based role. You will translate requirements into scalable solutions, develop architecture artifacts, and ensure governance and security compliance.

You will guide a small engineering team, perform design reviews, and align technical choices with business outcomes, while fostering learning and engineering discipline.