Solutions Architect Cluster Lead (For Pooling)

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

Office Location: UnionBank Plaza, Ortigas, Pasig City

Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

The IT Solutions Architect Cluster Lead (SA CL) is responsible for leading and managing a cluster of Solution Architects, which may be aligned by domain such as Retail, Corporate, or Business Enabling. Provide guidance and best practices on creating solutions based on defined architectural standards and oversee the clusters performance and KPIs. SA CL role involves working closely with the solutions architects, enterprise architects, product owners, application owners, infrastructure architects, information security architects, testing architects, developers, service providers and other governance stakeholders to create a scalable, secure and efficient solution architecture.

What You'll Do

• 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 key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensuring continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product owners, demand management team and other stakeholders to provides high level assessments for all technology projects.
• Collaborate with product owners (PO) to analyze and understand the business requirements/user stories.
• Collaborate with different 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.

What We're Looking For

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