Job Description

Singapore, Singapore

Company: Singtel Group

NCS is the leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 countries, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more.

We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 12,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

We\'re searching for a Lead IT Architect, Application Architecture to be part of our diverse team of talent here at NCS!

If you believe in going above and beyond, want to exemplify the best, and wish to bring people and technology together like never before, then we would love to have a conversation with you!

What we seek to accomplish together:

Project Delivery

• Provide technical leadership in complex project(s) independently.
• Define system-level application architecture that includes high-level design, architectural policies and principles, design and programming guidelines, implementation risks and mitigation measures, software development and integration strategies, software configuration controls, etc.
• Maintain control over the architecture throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure desired results are achieved.
• Involve in requirement analysis phase to ensure the implementation feasibility of functional specifications. Highlight requirement gaps, disproportional construction efforts, technical challenges and any other issues to business analyst teams.
• Develop the Technical Design Specification (TDS) independently.
• Provide technical leadership in the project through established design and development methodologies, to ensure system meets functional and system requirements.
• Engage customers to explain the rationale of architecture\'s selection, or other technical issues.
• Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the project.
• Trouble-shoot technical problems faced by the project team.

Organisation Development

• Coach, train and mentor Associate Architects and Architects.
• Share technology knowledge with the rest of organisation through Community of Practice (CoPs) or other in-house forums.
• Package and conduct in-depth technical courses.
• Contribute to knowledge repository on experience learnt through project implementation.

Business Development

• Be involved in pre-sales solution activities to review technical solution and estimated effort prepared by proposal team.
• Help NCS to win mindshare to be speaker or panellist in IT-related trade show or seminar.

A little about you:

• Typically 8 years\' experience in technical role with responsibilities that apply in-depth knowledge of architectural principles and design.
• Experience in developing and deploying complex scalable production applications on Cloud/PaaS platforms and Containers.
• Working knowledge of DevOps software development tools and methodologies.
• Broad and deep knowledge in current IT technologies.
• Proficiency in Java-related technology specification and standards.
• Certification in appropriate technologies is an advantage.
• Self-motivated with a positive \xe2\x80\x9ccan-do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
• Ability to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship.
• Proficient in written and spoken English.
• Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology related field, or IT equivalent.
• Able to travel as required.

As Asia\'s leading technology services firm, NCS as part of the Singtel Group, aims to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We aspire to create the extraordinary, to impact millions of people every day, and to create a positive impact on our environment. Our sustainability strategy sets out the key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) areas that aim to create the NCS impact for our clients, our people and our future.

We Grow our People, Value our Clients, and Create our Future.

We want to change the way we live and work for the better, to create new and sustainable business growth, and to foster an inclusive future for all.

You can find out more about our Group\'s sustainability focus to guide how you can contribute to our objectives at .

About NCS Group

We believe in building a talent-led delivery model to enable our best people to lead, and to support them with the right structure, processes, and tools to ensure that our clients are delivered top quality services. Great work is never done alone, which is why we also believe in fostering a collaborative work environment where people with different expertise and talent can come together.

We\'re here to make the extraordinary happen.

Find out more at ncs.co and our LinkedIn career site.

We handle all profiles with the highest level of confidentiality.

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