Principal Architect – Data and Product Enablement

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.​

​Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

The Role 

As a pivotal member of our Architecture Leadership team, you will report directly to the Head of Corporate Architecture, leading architectural transformation initiatives across the SEEK APAC data landscape. You will be a trusted and esteemed Principal Architect, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including Architecture, Data Services, AI and Platforms Services (AIPS), Security, Risk, Engineering, Product, and Go-to-Market, to craft SEEK’s target state data architecture blueprint. 

Your role will involve leveraging your expertise in data, reporting, analytics, and AI to drive informed decision-making and translate SEEK’s Data Services space's business ambitions into an architecture strategy with actionable roadmap initiatives. In addition to driving architecture conversations, you will assess solution designs and proactively identify and address risks within SEEK’s data landscape, including data privacy concerns. Functioning as a business-focused architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining SEEK’s data platform architecture, reference architectures, and roadmaps in alignment with our overarching strategy. Your thought leadership will be instrumental in developing solution architectures where necessary, advocating for a pragmatic, value-driven approach to architecture.

This position may entail aspects of management and mentoring, as you represent technology leadership within our evolving architecture-led organisation. Collaborating closely with business and product stakeholders, you will deeply understand SEEK’s objectives, driving collaboration across teams to define and prioritize outcomes and initiatives. Ensuring that our Architecture Strategy bolsters technology health within your purview remains a core responsibility. 

In addition to the position description for a Principal Architect at SEEK, this role will be accountable for:

• Engaging with the AI, Data Services, and Platform Product leadership and teams
• Delivering strategies and roadmaps for the enterprise model of data, and SEEK’s product platforms
• Providing solution architectures and assessments for the data platforms, data governance technology, reporting and analytics, and product platforms
• Data technologies involved include Databricks, AWS RedShift, AWS Athena, AWS Glue, Airflow, dbt, and Tableau
• Engineering technologies include AWS, TypeScript, React, and GraphQL 

Primary Accountabilities 

• Vision and Strategy: Contribute to the development of the Data Services vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with overarching organisational goals. 

• Current State Architecture: Thoroughly document SEEK’s current state data architecture, extending beyond the Data Services environment to encompass the AI specialist team within AIPS, engineering domains, and corporate applications such as Salesforce and Workday. 

• Requirements Assessments: Utilise data program requirements (e.g. the data privacy program) and the Data Services vision and strategy as primary inputs to identify architectural gaps and opportunities, providing valuable insights to inform program scopes. 

• Future-State Architecture: Lead the development of a comprehensive future-state architecture, gaining stakeholder buy-in while addressing critical aspects such as strategic objectives. 

• Data Architecture Strategy and Roadmap: Break down the target state architecture into manageable deliverable milestones and articulate them within a roadmap housed in SEEK’s architecture hub, LeanIX. 

• Market Assessments: Design an effective approach for vendor solution selections, encompassing long-list development, assessment criteria and weighting, shortlist development, options analysis, and ultimately providing a well-reasoned recommendation. 

• Cross-Program Collaboration: Collaborate closely with other architects to identify potential gaps and overlaps between programs in the Data Services space and other domains, ensuring adherence to common processes, frameworks, and templates while fostering synergy across initiatives. 

Qualifications

Proven track record in delivering, engineering, and/or architecting some of the following essential data capabilities: 

• Data governance, metadata management, and data privacy 

• Consent and preferences management 

• Data analytics, reporting, and MI/BI 

• Data engineering 

• Data science and ML/AI solutions 

• Data security 

• DataOps 

• Lakehouse platforms 

Hands-on experience with the following technologies (or equivalents from other vendors): 

• Databricks platform 

• Data modelling (e.g., Ellie.ai) 

• Metadata management & governance technology (e.g., Alation, Alex, Collibra, DataHub) 

• Technical data catalogues (e.g., AWS Glue, Hive metastore, Databricks Unity Catalog) 

• Data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Airflow) 

• Parallel data processing (e.g., AWS EMR, Databricks, Spark) 

• MPP database engines (e.g., Athena, Redshift) 

• Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, CloudFormation) 

• Messaging & data streaming (e.g., Kafka, MSK, Kinesis, SNS) 

• BI/analytics (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Databricks) 

• Cloud security (e.g., IAM, LakeFormation, AWS Macie, AWS GuardDuty) 

• Data quality & observability (e.g., Great Expectations, Deequ, AWS DataBrew, Monte Carlo) 

• Cloud operations (e.g., CI/CD tools like BuildKite, monitoring & alerting tools like Splunk, Datadog) 

• Stream processing tools (e.g., Spark Streaming, Delta Live, Flink, Beam, Kinesis Analytics) 

Proven success in architecting transformative data platform programs. 

Strong verbal and written communication abilities, complemented by the capacity to effectively engage and influence senior stakeholders. 

Demonstrated history of proactively exploring and leveraging the capabilities of emerging technologies. 

Additional Information

The Team 

At SEEK, our Architecture function is divided into two core areas: Online and Corporate. The Online architecture team focuses on crafting architecture strategies that empower SEEK to develop and operate our flagship product, facilitating the realisation of both current and future product ambitions with efficiency. The Corporate architecture team is dedicated to shaping architecture strategies that drive SEEK's business operations, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness while propelling SEEK towards its overarching goal of unification and scalable global expansion. 

Within the Corporate domain, the Data Architecture team plays a pivotal role, holding accountability for crafting the architectural strategy that underpins SEEK's delivery of unified data products, seamless business intelligence solutions, high-performance data engineering capabilities, and cutting-edge AI and analytics solutions. 

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.