Solution Architect - Principal

AIA Shared Services; Manila; On-site; PHP 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Philippines is seeking an experienced IT Architecture Lead to define and maintain architecture designs across application, data, integration, and security, aligning with the enterprise architecture vision and business growth strategies. You will oversee delivery from design through implementation with Product Owners, Sponsors and delivery teams.

You will drive cloud strategy, advocate DevOps and CI/CD, and evaluate new technologies to keep the architecture current.

Qualifications

• Minimum undergraduate degree in IT or Computer Science or related field.
• Extensive experience in IT Technical Architecture or Enterprise Architecture in a multi-national company or leading management consultancy.
• Deep knowledge of web applications running on multi-cloud environments, Azure as default.
• Insurance or financial services industry experience preferred.
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills at a senior level with diverse backgrounds.
• Familiarity with TOGAF and other architecture frameworks (e.g., ARIS, Zachman).
• Broad experience with technologies and patterns across cloud, data, security, and applications.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile, DevOps and CI.

Responsibilities

• Review current state architecture, analyze gaps, and define the target architecture aligning to EA vision and roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Sponsors, Program/Project/Delivery Team, Infrastructure, Data, and Security to translate requirements into architecture designs (application, data, infrastructure, security).
• Formulate a leading-edge application technology roadmap including cloud and PaaS/SaaS capabilities.
• Present architecture changes in Architecture Review Board and obtain timely approvals.
• Support cloud application architecture and provide guidelines for DevOps and CI/CD.
• Forecast and evaluate new technologies to determine suitability for current and future needs.
• Oversee the program/project design and realization of architecture within programmes and projects, ensuring adherence to standards and policies.
• Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure solution designs observe defined standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

Cloud architecture

DevOps guidance

SDLC knowledge

TOGAF familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science

Tools

Java

Microservices

API design

Containerization (AKS)

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

About the Role

Accountable for defining and maintaining architecture designs and deliverables (application, integration, technology, integration etc) which must align to the overall Enterprise Architecture of AIA PH, taking responsibility for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that align to the business and growth strategies of AIA. This position involves overseeing the end to end the implementation of IT systems based on the delivered architecture designs, working with Product Owners, Business Sponsors, and Program/Project/Delivery Team.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Review current state architecture, analyze the gaps of as-is state and define the target Architecture aligning to the over-all Enterprise Architecture vision and roadmap while ensuring the applications and integrations align with the business and growth strategies of AIA.
• Collaborate with the various stakeholders such as Product Owners, Business Sponsors, Program/Project/Delivery Team (including development team), Infrastructure Team, Data Team, Security Team in defining and/or reviewing the requirements and translate these requirements to architecture designs (application, data, infrastructure, security).
• Formulate leading edge application technology roadmap providing a source of competitive advantage for AIA, to include harnessing the latest cloud and PaaS / SaaS capabilities.
• Present architecture changes in Architecture Review Board and getting the change approved in a timely manner prior to execution of Program/Project.
• Support cloud application architecture and provide guidelines for DevOps and CI/CD.
• Support forecast of new and emerging technologies to determine suitability for AIA current and future needs, leading the research and evaluation process to ensure the AIA Application Standards adopt the appropriate technologies as they mature.
• Support application architecture updates based on new/updated Business Cases, Technology Building Permits and Application Exception Requests.
• Oversee the program/project design and realization of the application architecture within programmes and projects as necessary, ensuring adherence to architecture vision, standards, and policies.
• Provide guidance and direction to program/project/delivery to ensure solution design and delivery observe standards and guidelines defined

Minimum Job Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in IT, Computer Science or related function mandatory
• Significant demonstrable experience working in an IT Technical Architecture or Enterprise Architecture function in a multi-national company or leading management consultancy
• A deep understanding end experience delivering web applications running on multi cloud environment, Azure is default
• Insurance or financial services industry experience preferred
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills at a senior level with diverse backgrounds
• Familiarity of at least 2 of the following LOMA, ACORD, ARIS modeling, Zachman and especially TOGAF is preferable
• Broad experience with various technologies and application design and architecture, such as Java, Microservice implementation, API, Containerization (AKS), SQL/NoSQL technologies, while also applying security end-to-end across these technologies.
• Broad understanding on architecture patterns from cloud, application, security, data.
• Sound understanding of Project Management methodology, SDLC, Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration

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