Senior Solutions Architect, Cluster Lead

UnionBank; Pasig; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

UnionBank invites an IT Solutions Architect Cluster Lead to guide a cluster of Solution Architects across Retail, Corporate, or Business Enabling domains, ensuring designs meet architectural standards and KPIs.

You will partner with enterprise architects, product owners, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, secure solutions and document them in Technical Implementation Plans, while driving Buy/Build/Borrow assessments and cost projections.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of IT experience with at least 5 years in solution architecture and design.
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns (e.g. microservices, event-driven).
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.).
• Knowledge of security principles, risk management, and compliance.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and best practice guidance to Solution Architects within the cluster.
• Review and validate solution designs to ensure they are scalable, secure, efficient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Oversee the performance of the architectural cluster by tracking KPIs and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product owners, demand management team and other stakeholders to provide high level assessments for all technology projects.
• Collaborate with product owners to analyze and understand the business requirements/user stories.
• Collaborate with different IT units to create and design solutions and document it into a Technical Implementation Plan.
• Conduct Buy, Build and Borrow assessment as part of creation of the overall solution and providing recommendations on project direction.
• Conduct solutions walkthrough to internal stakeholders and service providers as part of the selection process to determine project cost, timeline & best-fit solution.
• Collaborate with product owners to prepare project budget presentations to Budget Committee.
• Oversee implementation and ensure that the solution design is adhered to during implementation.
• Maintain updated solution architecture documentation.

Skills

Architectural patterns

Cloud technologies

Security principles

Analytical problem solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

UnionBank invites an IT Solutions Architect Cluster Lead to guide a cluster of Solution Architects across Retail, Corporate, or Business Enabling domains, ensuring designs meet architectural standards and KPIs.

You will partner with enterprise architects, product owners, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, secure solutions and document them in Technical Implementation Plans, while driving Buy/Build/Borrow assessments and cost projections.