Principal Technology Architect — Strategy & Governance

AIA; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Shared Services in Singapore seeks a Technology Architecture, Principal to define and govern the technology-wide architecture, ensuring investments align with business strategy and scale across applications, data, integration and security.

You will lead multi‑year roadmaps, guide modernization toward API‑driven architectures, and partner with product and engineering leaders to design target‑state architectures that are performant, secure, resilient, and cost efficient.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10+ years of experience in technology architecture or technical leadership roles.
• Strong architectural expertise across: Technology architecture. Application architecture (microservices, event-driven architecture, APIs). Data and integration architecture (data platforms, streaming, ETL/ELT, API gateway). Security and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Proven track record defining technology architecture frameworks and governing large-scale technology ecosystems.
• Strong understandingofSDLC, engineering practices, DevOps, and -native development.
• Experience leading architecture for large digital transformation programs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence at senior levels.
• Good To Have: Experience in insurance or financial services; Certification in TOGAF, Azure Architecture, or similar; Understanding regulatory and compliance requirements; Background in API management.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and evolve the technology architecture blueprint aligned with business strategy.
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, principles, and guardrails across application, data, integration, and security domains.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies, platforms, and tools to support future-state architecture.
• Drive adoption of Group architecture frameworks and ensure governance compliance.
• Work with business and technology teams to develop multi-year architecture roadmaps.
• Guide modernization of legacy systems toward native, scalable, API-driven architectures.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to design target-state architectures for major programs.
• Ensure architectural designs deliver performance, security, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Conduct analyses of technology trends and regulatory conditions to inform improvements.
• Provide leadership for technology design across major initiatives and review proposals.

Skills

Technology architecture

Application architecture

Data & integration architecture

Security fundamentals

DevOps

APIs

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Azure Architecture

TOGAF

API management

Job description

AIA Shared Services in Singapore seeks a Technology Architecture, Principal to define and govern the technology-wide architecture, ensuring investments align with business strategy and scale across applications, data, integration and security.

You will lead multi‑year roadmaps, guide modernization toward API‑driven architectures, and partner with product and engineering leaders to design target‑state architectures that are performant, secure, resilient, and cost efficient.