Born from Hong Kong's demand for fast, convenient, and reliable payment solutions, Octopus introduced the world's first contactless multi-modal transit payment system in 1997. Since then, this homegrown FinTech company has pioneered innovative payment solutions for urban living across four continents. Our Vision To become the most preferred payment and lifestyle companion that connects customers and business partners through our best-in-class products and services. Our Mission Making everyday life easier. Our Values Customer Centricity, Simplicity & Trustworthiness. Dedicated to addressing customer needs and adapting to evolving market trends, Octopus has broadened its services beyond transportation to encompass retail, e-commerce, cross-border transactions, and travel abroad. Today, we serve approximately 98% of Hong Kong’s population, processing around 15 million transactions at more than HK$300 million on average daily. At the heart of our success are our colleagues. We value mutual respect, foster collaboration, and encourage innovation and partnership. Join us and shape the future of payment solutions. Your impact starts here!

Job Responsibilities:

Strategies Development

• Direct the technical teams in proposing and outlining system architecture for all systems, and monitor and control system implementations and enhancements.
• Lead and complete technology proof of concept activities to confirm solution architecture with satisfactory performance and high degree of scalability, reliability and maintainability.

Solution Architecture Review and Endorsement

• Provide optimal technical solution designs and application architecture with cross-team collaboration with developers, analyst, architects and IT operators;
• Develop approaches to improve system designs, strengthen system robustness, enhance system monitoring measures and streamline delivery of systems;
• Resolve complicated system integration issues with effective technical solutions;
• Plan and organize upgrade roadmap of legacy applications and system interfaces;
• Modernize legacy system designs, database architecture and cloud infrastructure;
• Promote DevSecOps practices and data strategy; and 
• Build system development roadmap for continual and effective adoption of latest technologies.

Risk Management

• Identify, manage and mitigate IT related risks including but not limited to risks in projects, IT operations, services and products provided to card holders and service providers.
• Develop and implement risk management process in the department.
• Investigate technical incident and security breach, if any, and provide resolutions.
• Instill strong risk and compliance culture into every level and create strong sense of accountability.

Product Realisation

• Solve client problems from technological perspectives with an application architecture, data architecture, infrastructure, or end-to-end solution architecture.
• Provide strategic architectural advices ensuring consistency, completeness, correctness, and opportunities for re-use.
• Provide subject matter expertise to identify and translate business into software architecture, design documentation or infrastructure.
• Ensure the development of internal and external documents, and respective evolution into recommended workable solutions are in good quality.
• Contribute to knowledge management by sharing knowledge and best practices within the organisation to enhance organisation quality, profitability and market share.
• Evaluate the cost effectiveness and alignment of products to company business and IT strategy.
• Manage development teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and according to the internal or external clients’ requirements
• Liaison with relevant parties on user requirements, UAT testing, implementation and deployment.

Security Engineering

• Establish the overall enterprise-wide security architecture.
• Integrate security principles, methods and techniques into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Align security architecture with business needs.
• Liaise with TEC teams and review security design.

Job Requirements:

• Degree holder in Information Security, IT, Computer Science or other related disciplines
• Certification in one of the Enterprise/IT Architecture Frameworks or Programs is preferred
• A minimum of 12 years of IT experience especially in defining long-term technological architecture for organizations to pursue.
• Experience in system architectural design or implementation for large-scale systems.
• Good knowledge of industrial good architectural design practice to guide the organisation to meet contemporary technological requirements.
• Knowledge in the software development process or systems development life cycle (SDLC) and proven troubleshooting skills and problem solving skills.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills and good stakeholders communications skills.

We offer successful candidate an attractive remuneration package and excellent career prospects. Interested parties please send your resume, present and expected salary, contact details and quoting the reference number by clicking Apply Now

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