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IT Solutions Architect - Cloud,… at Great Eastern… · Singapore
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Job Description
The Lead Domain Architect, Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Architecture, is a senior role within Group IT Architecture responsible for establishing and evolving Great Eastern’s enterprise cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture foundation across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other GE entities. The role will define target-state architecture, principles, standards, and guardrails for cloud platforms, hybrid infrastructure, private cloud, compute, storage, network, container platforms, infrastructure automation, observability, resilience, disaster recovery, backup, operational readiness, and platform engineering practices. This role will help modernise GE’s technology foundation by improving scalability, security, resilience, automation, cost effectiveness, and operational excellence across cloud and infrastructure services. It will also help address technology fragmentation, inconsistent platform patterns, infrastructure complexity, operational risks, and architectural debt across the enterprise technology landscape. Working closely with application teams, integration teams, data and AI teams, cloud and infrastructure engineering, operations, Security, Risk, Compliance, and delivery teams, the role will translate business, regulatory, security, operational, and technology needs into practical architecture direction and implementable solution patterns. The successful candidate is expected to provide architecture leadership and coaching to solution architects, engineers, platform teams, and operations teams, helping to uplift cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture maturity across Group IT.
Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Architecture
Define and evolve enterprise cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture across Great Eastern entities, aligned with business strategy, enterprise architecture direction, regulatory expectations, and technology modernisation priorities.
Establish architecture principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, and reusable patterns for cloud, hybrid infrastructure, private cloud, compute, storage, network, container platforms, and platform engineering capabilities.
Define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps for modernising infrastructure platforms, improving scalability, resilience, automation, security, cost effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
Guide workload placement decisions across public cloud, private cloud, on-premise infrastructure, and hybrid environments based on business criticality, security, resilience, regulatory, performance, and cost considerations.
Identify and address structural architecture issues, including fragmented infrastructure patterns, inconsistent cloud usage, platform duplication, legacy constraints, operational risks, and architectural debt.
Cloud Governance, Landing Zone & Automation
Define architecture standards and guardrails for cloud landing zones, account/subscription structures, network segmentation, identity integration, access control, policy enforcement, logging, monitoring, backup, and security baseline requirements.
Establish infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code principles to improve consistency, repeatability, auditability, and speed of delivery.
Promote modern platform engineering practices that enable reusable, self-service, secure, and governed technology capabilities for application and delivery teams.
Define architecture patterns for container platforms, orchestration, workload isolation, service connectivity, deployment automation, and platform observability.
Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve platform standardisation, lifecycle management, environment consistency, and operational readiness.
Resilience, Observability & Operational Excellence
Define architecture standards for high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, business continuity, service reliability, capacity, performance, and operational resilience.
Establish observability and monitoring architecture patterns covering infrastructure, cloud services, platforms, applications, integrations, and critical workloads.
Ensure architecture designs include appropriate operational controls, support models, recoverability, incident readiness, and production handover considerations.
Review critical workloads and platforms to ensure resilience, scalability, performance, and operational risks are understood and addressed.
Support continuous improvement of infrastructure reliability, service stability, automation maturity, and operational excellence across Group IT.
Security, Risk & Compliance-by-Design
Translate security, risk, regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements into practical architecture standards, platform controls, and solution design patterns.
Ensure cloud and infrastructure architectures incorporate security-by-design, resilience-by-design, privacy-by-design, and compliance-by-design principles.
Work closely with Security, Risk, Compliance, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, and delivery teams to ensure platforms and workloads meet enterprise control requirements.
Define architecture guardrails for network security, identity and access, encryption, secrets management, logging, vulnerability management, backup, and recovery.
Identify architecture risks, control gaps, technology debt, and remediation actions across cloud, infrastructure, and platform initiatives.
Architecture Assurance & Delivery Guidance
Provide architecture assurance for major programmes and initiatives involving cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, application modernisation, data platforms, AI platforms, integration, and digital delivery.
Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, approved patterns, security standards, resilience requirements, and operational expectations.
Guide delivery teams in making practical architecture decisions that balance speed, cost, resilience, security, compliance, and long-term maintainability.
Serve as a key member of the Architecture Review Board for cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture matters.
Develop architecture decision records, reference architectures, playbooks, and design patterns to improve consistency and reusability across delivery teams.
Leadership, Collaboration & Capability Building
Provide architecture leadership, coaching, and mentoring to solution architects, engineers, platform teams, operations teams, and delivery teams.
Build reusable architecture standards, patterns, playbooks, and decision frameworks to uplift cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture maturity across Group IT.
Influence senior stakeholders across business and technology teams to drive adoption of enterprise cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture standards.
Partner with application, integration, data, AI, security, engineering, and operations teams to ensure architecture decisions are cohesive across domains.
Champion practical, outcome-driven architecture that enables business agility while managing technology, security, regulatory, operational, and cost risks.
Have strong experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, platform architecture, enterprise architecture, or similar senior architecture roles within complex enterprise environments.
Have proven ability to define target-state architecture, architecture principles, standards, reusable patterns, guardrails, and transition roadmaps for cloud, infrastructure, and platform capabilities.
Understand modern cloud, hybrid infrastructure, private cloud, container, network, compute, storage, automation, observability, and operational resilience patterns.
Have practical experience designing resilient, scalable, secure, automated, and cost-effective infrastructure and platform solutions.
Understand cloud governance concepts, including landing zones, account/subscription structures, identity integration, network segmentation, policy enforcement, logging, monitoring, backup, and security baseline controls.
Understand infrastructure automation and platform engineering practices, including infrastructure-as-code, configuration automation, environment standardisation, self-service platforms, and reusable engineering patterns.
Have experience reviewing and guiding major technology initiatives involving cloud adoption, infrastructure modernisation, application modernisation, data platforms, integration platforms, or digital delivery.
Are able to identify structural technology issues such as platform fragmentation, inconsistent infrastructure patterns, weak operational readiness, resilience gaps, unmanaged cloud usage, and architectural debt.
Can translate business, regulatory, risk, security, compliance, and operational requirements into practical architecture standards, platform controls, and solution design patterns.
Can work effectively with business stakeholders, application teams, integration teams, data and AI teams, cloud and infrastructure engineering, operations, Security, Risk, Compliance, and delivery teams to drive alignment and practical outcomes.
Have strong communication, stakeholder management, influencing, and facilitation skills, with the ability to explain complex cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Are able to provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to architects, engineers, platform teams, and operations teams to uplift architecture capability.
Have strong analytical thinking, problem-solving capability, ownership mindset, and willingness to drive change in a complex enterprise environment.
Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Have working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, cloud architecture frameworks, infrastructure architecture practices, or industry standards such as TOGAF, Well-Architected Frameworks, ITIL, SRE, or equivalent.
Have experience in insurance, banking, or financial services, which would be an advantage
Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.
Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia. Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.