Reports to: Solution Architect Manager

Department: Information Technology (IMT)

Join Cathay as a Solution Architect in our Customer and Commercial Solution Centre. You will be the one to design innovative architectural solutions that aligns with business needs, collaborating with the Enterprise Architect team and development team to translate requirements into technical specifications.

Thrive in a dynamic and agile environment that embraces AI and cutting-edge technologies. Our culture fosters teamwork and progressive thinking, while our internal mobility program offers diverse career opportunities.

Leverage your expertise to oversee architectural excellence in the Customer and Commercial Solution Centre, ensuring we deliver on our brand promise and drive organizational success.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive to develop and analyse solution options based on business demand, enterprise architecture and balanced comparison of functional capabilities, non-functional capabilities, risk, cost and benefits
• Gather, understand and synthesize documentation available from vendors, SMEs, systems, product managers and business analysts to be able to extract right information and transform it into different architectural diagrams or viewpoints
• Cross-team collaboration with application and infrastructure teams on the conceptual designs and solution designs for project delivery. Analyse enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as project-specific requirements to guide solution architecture by leveraging all aspects (e.g. business, information and technology infrastructure) of enterprise architecture
• Construct and promote application / infrastructure development and deployment standards and guidelines
• Cross-team collaboration with other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, developers and key stakeholders to harmonise systems or infrastructure with the enterprise architecture. Drive discussions among Architects and key stakeholders to agree on the solution architecture and blueprint. Communicate a clear vision of how the technology can be optimally applied to products and services
• Anticipate and address issues, providing alternative approaches and continuously improving application performance
• Accountable for ensuring solution architecture design work is documented in a structured fashion matching the Cathay IT practice framework. Facilitate sharing of the artefacts to drive reuse
• Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain. Work on prototypes and concepts for new technologies and ideas with little or no guidance
• Mentor the development team and promote ideas for useful technologies and methodologies

Requirements

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
• For a Solution Architect a minimum 7 years of IT experience with at least 4 years hands-on project solution architecture experience
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environment. Experience with microservices, serverless, event driven, web and mobile, AI (ML, LLM, Agentic etc), AWS, Azure, Microsoft Power Platform is beneficial
• Knowledge of China regulatory, social, payment platforms is beneficial
• Advanced expertise in SDLC – Agile, SAFE and DevSecOps is beneficial
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
• Significant practical experience or good understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF
• Must be well organized, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude
• Effective verbal and written communication skill
• Airline knowledge is beneficial

Application Deadline: 7 April 2025

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