Senior Solution Architect / Solution Architect (Contract)

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator.

As central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the conduct of monetary policy and close macroeconomic surveillance and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign reserves, and liquidity in the banking sector.

As an integrated financial supervisor, MAS fosters a sound financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore – banks, insurers, capital market intermediaries, financial advisors, and stock exchanges. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, sound conduct, and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, adoption of technology, and upgrading of skills in the financial industry.

Join us now, if you have a genuine interest in making an impact to help shape Singapore’s economic and financial landscape.

[What you will be working on]

You will be part of a dynamic team within Supervision Platforms Division under Information Technology Department. In this role, the officer is expected to undertake the following areas of work:

(i) Application Architecture

1. Design the system’s application architecture based on requirements.
2. Manage non-functional requirements like scalability, reliability, and security.
3. Decompose monolithic applications into microservices.
4. Design services that can be independently deployed and scaled.
5. Design scalable UI components and architecture.

(ii) Data Architecture

1. Define Data model strategies (Structured vs semi-structured).
2. Define Data storage strategies (e.g., relational, NoSQL, GraphQL).
3. Ensure data consistency, security, and accessibility.

(iii) Security Architecture

1. Define security architecture for application based on system classification.
2. Design security controls, such as encryption, authentication, and authorization.
3. Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., IM8).

(iv) Stakeholder management

1. Work with business teams and product owners to ideate Solution Architecture and Design.
2. Coordinate and work with other technical teams (e.g. Infrastructure, Enterprise, Applications, Security) to set up infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, application integrations and resolve deployment and integration issues.

(v) Engineering and Operations

1. Design scalable and resilient infrastructure.
2. Support development teams by providing advice and guiding the engineers in solving technical problems, code review.
3. Improve software quality using cloud-native and Agile development practices such as TDD, automated CI/CD.
4. Work with application teams to understand RCA for issues, incidents, provide interim and long-term solutions.
5. Define logging, tracing, and observability practices to quickly identify issues and bottlenecks.

(vi) Reusable components

1. Advocate and build reusable components and libraries to be shared across different application development teams.
2. Create and govern guidelines for design, coding, database and best practices.

You will be working in a fast-paced environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and needs of stakeholders, as well as the agility to respond to changes and developments.

[What we are looking for]

1. Bachelor Degree or Master Degree with minimally 8 years of relevant working experience in application development and design, and business analysis.
2. Strong knowledge of solution architectures and integration patterns.
3. Ability to design and develop large scale applications to solve complex business problems.
4. Proficient in .Net, Java, React.js, Node.js, MYSQL and MongoDB.
5. Familiar with multi-paradigm programming languages.
6. Experience in software development lifecycle in an Agile Scrum context.
7. Experience in OAuth2/OpenID connect.
8. Experience in containers, microservices and DevSecOps technologies.
9. Familiar with cloud-native technology.
10. Experience in designing and developing applications in AWS cloud environment.
11. Certification on AWS cloud technology is preferred.
12. Good understanding of SRE/Service/Security/Compliance Management process including change, incident, problem on cloud platform.
13. Good analytical skills, and able to multi-task and deliver results in a timely manner.
14. Ability to resolve complex problems creatively.
15. Self-driven, creative and team-oriented person with good interpersonal and organizational skills.

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

This contract ends in Dec 2029. All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.