Role: IT Architect (Deputy Executive Manager)
Role Type: Permanent role
Max Salary: 120K per month
Job Description:
- Lead the development of IT architecture blueprints and roadmaps for mainland China, with a focus on customer and racecourse operations
- Identify and champion technology solutions that address business needs, including but not limited to customer loyalty programs, retail operations, and racecourse event management
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and fit-for-purpose technology solutions, ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture standards, policies, and regional regulatory requirements
- Oversee the governance of IT architecture initiatives by reviewing project designs, procurement plans, and solution implementations to ensure compliance with enterprise IT standards, policies, and strategic goals
- Develop and maintain the China Reference Architecture, regularly reviewing technologies and identifying opportunities for improvement to meet organizational goals
- Lead brainstorming sessions and stakeholder workshops to gather functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture principles
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including solution, infrastructure, and security architects, to ensure seamless integration of technology solutions across business units
- Engage with business leaders and external partners to set expectations, gather requirements, and drive alignment between IT solutions and business priorities
- Foster a culture of innovation and inclusiveness by promoting diverse perspectives, encouraging knowledge sharing, and empowering the team to propose creative solutions
- Identify and implement emerging technologies to address business challenges, drive digital transformation, and maintain a competitive advantage in mainland China
- Provide leadership and mentorship to direct reports, consultants, and dotted-line functional managers, ensuring high performance and professional development
- Collaborate on POC Execution – Work closely with IT teams and vendors at the Shenzhen Innovation Center to support agreed proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, ensuring successful execution
- Transition POCs into Projects – Lead efforts to translate successful POCs into full-scale projects by coordinating resources, aligning with business objectives, and ensuring seamless implementation
​Key requirements:
- University degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Masters degree preferred
- Possess more than 15 Years of experience in solution and enterprise architecture development and governance
- Experienced in business planning, budgeting and financial forecasting for IT organisations
- Have demonstrated capability in assessing and implementing new technologies and solutions
- Familiarity with mainland China-specific regulatory requirements and cultural nuances, particularly in industries such as retail, customer engagement, and events
- Have demonstrated capability in designing long-term architectural roadmaps, delivering the planned state architecture
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies
- Must be able to influence, advise, and present to all levels of the organisation, including externally
- Be passionate, enthusiastic and an agent for change
- Fluency in the written and spoken English language
- Has integrity, is trustworthy, dependable, responsible, and accountable
- Is highly driven, self-motivated with the ability to work independently, and work with other highly talented individuals
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and to thrive in a fast-paced work environment
- Ability to work in a virtual team
- Innovative and enthusiastic for new challenges, creative and inventive
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills
- Priority management, problem-solving and decision-making, including providing recommendations on available options
- Leadership, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills with a diverse group of internal and external personnel
- Certification in TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner EAM or related is a plus
- Sound and solid knowledge regarding the technologies and solutions to support various mainland China business initiatives
- Previous experience as a developer in a large enterprise using Java, C#/.NET, C++, native mobile application and WeChat mini-program development
- Previous experience with messaging, message-oriented middleware (MOM), micro-service and event-driven architecture design, and patterns such as SAGA, CQRS, and Event Sourcing
- Familiarity with scripting languages Python, BASH, Perl, Groovy
- Ability to compile business cases, which demonstrate value by outlining Revenue Increases; Cost Control/ Reduction; improved customer experiences etc
- Business Process Development, using modelling notations such as BPMN, to enable functional design
- Architecture; software engineering; Dev/Ops; Cloud; Security; and Technology Trend awareness with the ability to translate this into non-architecture language for communication
- Knowledge of appropriate Sovereign Legislation to ensure relevant compliance when reviewing solutions
- Demonstrate experience in Data modelling and Analysis to design solutions for Deep Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence