Job Position
Lead Architect (Enterprise Architect - Application)
Major Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end application architectures including microservices, APIs, data models and integration patterns
- Ensure applications are designed for high availability, low latency and seamless horizontal scaling
- Define iterative roadmap for modernization and cloud native migration
- Define, promote and enforce architectural pattern, and CICD best practices
- Participate in the architectural review boards to ensure alignment with organization strategic roadmap
- Review the solutions proposed from different project teams to ensure it aligns with the architecture roadmap of the group
- Provide technical guidance to the project teams to ensure no technical debt being implemented
- Ensure solutions’ alignment with IT and business strategies and business capabilities, reuse principles, and vendor strategies
- Continuously assess industry trends to ensure platforms remain future-proof and competitive
- Perform other duties or projects as assigned
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related disciplines
- At least 15 years of relevant software engineering experience, including at least 5 years focused on application architecture design
- Experience designing and deploy large-scale application in production environments
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Expert knowledge of API design and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Strong understanding of rational databases and NoSQL solutions
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and DevOps tools
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese, proficiency in Putonghua is an advantage
Application Method
Interested parties please send your curriculum vitae stating your current and expected salaries, and the contact phone number to the Human Resources Division, Unit B, 25/F, MG Tower, 133 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon or e-mail it to hrm@hkicl.com.hk. All applications and personal information collected will be treated in strict confidence and only be used for the purpose of recruitment and selection. The information collected will be accessed by our authorized personnel only. Those applicants not contacted by the Human Resources Division within two months from their application date should consider their applications filed for future reference which will be retained for one year for possible future job matching, and will be destroyed after the expiry of one year.