Solution Architect - Principal

At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.

As pioneering innovators for over 100 years, we’re now transforming our organisation to be faster, simpler and more connected. Because we want to be even better equipped to develop digital solutions and experiences that help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

To get there, we need people with tech/digital/analytics expertise and passion to help develop positive, sustainable change through digitally enhanced experiences that will impact the lives of millions of people and create a healthier future for everyone.

If you believe in developing a better tomorrow, read on.

About the Role

This position involves overseeing the end to end the implementation of IT systems based on the delivered architecture designs, working with Product Owners, Business Sponsors, and Program/Project/Delivery Team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Review current state architecture, analyze the gaps of as-is state and define the target Architecture aligning to the over-all Enterprise Architecture vision and roadmap while ensuring the applications and integrations align with the business and growth strategies of AIA.
• Collaborate with the various stakeholders such as Product Owners, Business Sponsors, Program/Project/Delivery Team (including development team), Infrastructure Team, Data Team, Security Team in defining and/or reviewing the requirements and translate these requirements to architecture designs (application, data, infrastructure, security).
• Formulate leading edge application technology roadmap providing a source of competitive advantage for AIA, to include harnessing the latest cloud and PaaS / SaaS capabilities.
• Present architecture changes in Architecture Review Board and getting the change approved in a timely manner prior to execution of Program/Project.
• Support cloud application architecture and provide guidelines for DevOps and CI/CD.
• Support forecast of new and emerging technologies to determine suitability for AIA current and future needs, leading the research and evaluation process to ensure the AIA Application Standards adopt the appropriate technologies as they mature.
• Support application architecture updates based on new/updated Business Cases, Technology Building Permits and Application Exception Requests.
• Oversee the program/project design and realization of the application architecture within programmes and projects as necessary, ensuring adherence to architecture vision, standards, and policies.
• Provide guidance and direction to program/project/delivery to ensure solution design and delivery observe standards and guidelines defined

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in IT, Computer Science or related function mandatory
• Significant demonstrable experience working in an IT Technical Architecture or Enterprise Architecture function in a multi-national company or leading management consultancy
• A deep understanding end experience delivering web applications running on multi cloud environment, Azure is default
• Insurance or financial services industry experience preferred
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills at a senior level with diverse backgrounds
• Familiarity of at least 2 of the following LOMA, ACORD, ARIS modeling, Zachman and especially TOGAF is preferable
• Broad experience with various technologies and application design and architecture, such as Java, Microservice implementation, API, Containerization (AKS), SQL/NoSQL technologies, while also applying security end-to-end across these technologies.
• Broad understanding on architecture patterns from cloud, application, security, data.
• Sound understanding of Project Management methodology, SDLC, Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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