Job Description

Summary Provide consistent Architecture support to the GA team by collaborating with country BPs & Technical SME (global partner / local vendor).
Assist the country BPs to prepare business case preparation related to Architecture.
Deliver Architectural artifacts to support the initiative as well as to provide guidance and support to BP teams to ensure alignment to architectural requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for assisting in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
• Manages activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation.
• Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
• Champions a structured approach to business application solutions.
• Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture.
• Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions.
• Influences changes to standards when necessary.
• Assists domain architecture team on solutions management and timing of financial spend for application solutions.
• Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios.
• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• Highly accountable, dependable and takes initiatives
• Strong communicator and able to follow through
• A good team player and passionate to see task to completion with speed
• Ability to work under pressure of meeting deadlines under a fast-growing workplace
• Matrix management skill, including working with ambiguity and across organization boundaries
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment with peers from oversea (prefer)
• Committed, structured and delivery-focused approach
• Possess a broad knowledge of most technical and business process and use them to effectively coordinate team members and external resources. (prefer)
• Excellent analytic, interpersonal and communication skills to influence and engage colleagues, along with a broad understanding of the businesses they support
• Experience working with external partners such as customers, and vendors in process improvement projects
• Ability to initiate ideas and articulate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders

Qualification

• Degree in Information Technology/Computer Science
• Strong Microsoft skills
• Good critical thinking skills

Primary Work Location SGP The Strategy
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