Enterprise Architect – Data & AI

OCBC Bank (Hong Kong) Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Flexible benefits

Learning and professional development opportunities

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Singapore is seeking an Enterprise Data and AI Architect to lead the strategy for data architecture and AI initiatives. You will define blueprints for data collection, security, and processing while ensuring compliance with governance and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture and strong expertise in data governance, cloud platforms, and AI practices. This position offers competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in enterprise/solution architecture with a focus on data/AI.
• Proven ownership of enterprise data platforms and MLOps.
• Strong grasp of data governance and model risk controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise data and AI architecture strategy for the bank.
• Define and maintain data and AI architecture blueprints.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory obligations and data privacy.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Cloud data platforms

AI/ML architecture

Tools

Azure Synapse

AWS Redshift

Kafka

Job description

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But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.Your Opportunity Starts Here.# **Role Purpose**Lead the enterprise data and artificial intelligence (AI) architecture strategy and blueprints that govern how data is collected, secured, processed, activated, and monetised across the bank. Act as design authority across programmes to ensure solution designs conform to target state and deliver business outcomes aligned to the enterprise architecture roadmap.**Key Accountabilities*** **Enterprise Blueprints & Roadmaps:** Define and maintain the target-state Data & AI architecture (e.g., data mesh/lakehouse, streaming, analytics, MLOps, metadata/lineage) and domain roadmaps aligned to business strategy and regulatory obligations.* **Cross****‑Domain Design Authority:** Chair/participate in design reviews for initiatives on Data & AI domain which span across channels, core banking, risk, finance, and compliance; adjudicate architecture decisions and manage dispensations with clear remediation timelines.* **Standards, Patterns & Reference Architectures:** Publish and evolve standards for data modelling, eventing, ML lifecycle, feature stores, model risk controls, privacy-by-design, and responsible AI; drive adoption through architecture governance gates.* **Solution Guidance & Quality Assurance:** Partner with solution architects and engineering leads to shape designs (batch/stream, APIs, real-time scoring, vector stores/RAG, feature pipelines) and assure conformance to blueprint pre‑build, during build, and pre‑go‑live.* **Risk, Controls & Compliance:** Embed data quality, lineage, retention, encryption, and access controls. Ensure designs meet data privacy, model risk, and operational resilience requirements across jurisdictions.* **Value Realisation & Metrics:** Define measurable outcomes (e.g., time-to-model, reuse of data products/patterns, cost-to-serve) and track via OKRs; inform investment prioritisation through architecture insights.* **People & Capability:** Coach solution architects and engineers; curate reusable reference implementations and run patterns guilds to uplift Data & AI architecture competency across the organisation.**Experience & Competencies*** 10–15+ years in enterprise/solution architecture with at least 6 years leading data/AI architectures at scale (streaming, batch, lakehouse, analytics, ML/GenAI).* Proven ownership of enterprise data platform modernisation and MLOps across multi‑cloud or hybrid environments.* Strong grasp of data governance, lineage/metadata, model risk controls, and responsible AI practices, including privacy and security-by-design.* Hands-on expertise with major cloud data/AI platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse/Fabric/ML, AWS Redshift/SageMaker, GCP BigQuery/Vertex AI), streaming (Kafka), orchestration, catalog/lineage tools.* Excellent stakeholder management and communication across business, technology, risk, and compliance; able to influence senior leaders and arbitrate design decisions.* Demonstrated ability to define new architectures, lead cross-domain programs, and drive adoption of standards and patterns with measurable outcomes.**Expected Certifications (nice-to-have)*** Architecture: TOGAF or equivalent.* Cloud/Data/AI: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Azure Data Engineer or AI Engineer (or AWS/GCP equivalents); Databricks Professional; SnowPro; DAMA CDMP.* Security/Privacy: CISSP/CCSP or equivalent; data privacy certifications are advantageous.# # # **What we offer:**Competitive base salary. 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