Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure
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The Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure is responsible for providing leadership and vision to Infrastructure Managers and Infrastructure Architects in developing architectural infrastructure roadmaps and conducting reviews on IT infrastructure solutions.
Responsibilities
- Drive the enterprise infrastructure architecture and roadmap definition, including architecture vision, principles, standards and policies, target state blueprints, and roadmap for the relevant infrastructure domains
- Work closely and collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to align the enterprise architecture strategy (for all business and technology domains)
- Work closely with infrastructure architects to ensure decisions meet long term enterprise growth needs
- Drive to implement best practices and industry patterns to enable manageable, scalable, and high-performance solutions
- Identify opportunities for improved business performance using enterprise architecture vision and target state through process or technology change
- Support the Infrastructure team in defining the enterprise architecture strategy
- Actively engage in and contribute to relevant solution design review activities and enterprise architecture governance forums and conduct project technical reviews and health checks
- Actively engage in the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the business/application architecture
- Cross-team collaboration with architects, infrastructure leads, and engineers to communicate infrastructure development needs and design
- Provide valuable assistance and advice to complex projects
- Support continuous improvement of Cathay IT Standards and Practices
- Mentor the infrastructure architects and infrastructure engineering team. Promote ideas for using the effective technologies
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, industry, and corresponding business domain
- Work closely and collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to align the enterprise architecture strategy (for all business and technology domains)
- Work closely with infrastructure architects to ensure decisions meet long term enterprise growth needs
- Drive to implement best practices and industry patterns to enable manageable, scalable, and high-performance solutions
- Identify opportunities for improved business performance using enterprise architecture vision and target state through process or technology change
- Support the Infrastructure team in defining the enterprise architecture strategy
- Actively engage in and contribute to relevant solution design review activities and enterprise architecture governance forums and conduct project technical reviews and health checks
- Actively engage in the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the business/application architecture
- Cross-team collaboration with architects, infrastructure leads, and engineers to communicate infrastructure development needs and design
- Provide valuable assistance and advice to complex projects
- Support continuous improvement of Cathay IT Standards and Practices
- Mentor the infrastructure architects and infrastructure engineering team. Promote ideas for using the effective technologies
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, industry, and corresponding business domain
Requirements
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
- Minimum 12 years of IT experience with at least 7 years in infrastructure strategy and architecture design or technology enablement related position
- Proven abilities to develop enterprise architectures with excellent analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects, and to think creatively and beyond normal constraints
- In-depth knowledge of workplace, middleware, infrastructure, network and security technologies
- In-depth knowledge of cloud-native concepts, methods and related technologies
- Passion and ability to learn new technologies and their application
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Excellent breadth of thinking, able to provide pragmatic solutions that consider all relevant constraints whether technical, financial, organisational, risk, or capability based
- Airline knowledge is an advantage
- TOGAF certification is preferred
- Minimum 12 years of IT experience with at least 7 years in infrastructure strategy and architecture design or technology enablement related position
- Proven abilities to develop enterprise architectures with excellent analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects, and to think creatively and beyond normal constraints
- In-depth knowledge of workplace, middleware, infrastructure, network and security technologies
- In-depth knowledge of cloud-native concepts, methods and related technologies
- Passion and ability to learn new technologies and their application
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Excellent breadth of thinking, able to provide pragmatic solutions that consider all relevant constraints whether technical, financial, organisational, risk, or capability based
- Airline knowledge is an advantage
- TOGAF certification is preferred
Salary
Negotiable
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