Senior Solutions Architect – Cluster Lead (Cloud & Security)

Union Bank; Pasig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Union Bank in Ortigas, Pasig City seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect Cluster Lead to head a team of Architects, ensuring scalable, secure solutions aligned with enterprise standards. The role focuses on technical leadership, KPI-driven performance, and cross-functional collaboration with product owners and IT units to guide high-level project assessments.

Ideal candidates will have extensive IT experience, with strong cloud, security, and architectural pattern knowledge, ready to mentor teams

Qualifications

• Minimum 10–15 years in IT with at least 5 years in solution architecture.
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns such as microservices and event-driven designs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and security, risk, 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 scalable, secure, and efficient designs 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 IT units (Enterprise Architects, Application leads, Testing Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Information Security Architects, Project Managers, SLMs, Application support teams) to create and design solutions and document it into a Technical Implementation Plan.
• Conducts Buy, Build and Borrow assessment as part of creation of the overall solution and providing recommendations on project direction.
• Conducts 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

Solution architecture

Technical leadership

Cloud technologies

Security principles

Risk management

Enterprise architecture

Analytical skills

Decision making

Job description

Union Bank in Ortigas, Pasig City seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect Cluster Lead to head a team of Architects, ensuring scalable, secure solutions aligned with enterprise standards. The role focuses on technical leadership, KPI-driven performance, and cross-functional collaboration with product owners and IT units to guide high-level project assessments.

Ideal candidates will have extensive IT experience, with strong cloud, security, and architectural pattern knowledge, ready to mentor teams