Solution Architect (2025)

Job Summary

Solution architect works closely with project and development labs to seek for the optimum solution architecture design based on IT architecture constraint and project timeline. He/she also ensure the solution architecture design has alignment with architecture roadmap, principle and architecture patterns of the customer and SCB Tech X. He/she performs regular architecture review to validate the design delivered and co-work with enterprise architect to seek for the architecture domain challenge and initiated as architecture improvement opportunities.

Job Description

Architecture development

• Develop solution architecture based on tribe’s requirement and architecture roadmap
• Provide intensive guidance to development team to deliver targeted business outcomes and manage risk to business processes and operations
• Identify integration pattern uses in domain architecture and retrofit back into reference architecture for future usability 
• Review solution delivery outcomes to identify architecture challenges and improvement opportunities
• Incorporate solution architecture design into architecture repository
• Perform end to end architecture design starting from conceptual design, high level architecture design, detail application design, infrastructure design and cloud system design depending on the individual skills

Project collaboration 

• Play supporting role to all architecture activities toward SCB Tech X business starting from design and development and delivery phase.
• Provide cost estimation according to the designed infrastructure 

Research and development

• Occasionally provide research and development / POC for new technology before recommend to the projects
• Conduct POC and communicate to solution vendors for deep understanding of the solution/technology usage
• Provide intensive guidance to project team to leverage software assets developed by other labs/projects
• Perform technology choices evaluation

Experiences

• Experienced in the areas of software architecture design for at least 5 years
• At least 8 years experienced in software development area

Knowledge & Skills

• Broad technical aptitude and knowledge within application architecture
• Ability to understand complex business requirements
• Knowledgeable on the enterprise architecture patterns and leverage existing design pattern into solution architecture design
• Knowledgeable on cloud architecture design
• Knowledgeable on the development methodology
• Knowledgeable on modern application design patterns such as microservices architecture, serverless architecture, API architecture

Competency

• Effective communication and able to communicate solution design with multiple IT stakeholders from multiple aspects eg. application architecture aspect, infrastructure architecture aspect and data architecture aspects
  
• Ability to excel in learning new projects from documentation from customer / stakeholders
• Ability to communicate well in English
• Excellent in self time and tasks management