Job Position
Architect (Solution Development) – Application Infrastructure & Database
Major Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end application architecture across cloud infrastructure, databases, middleware, and integration layers
- Design cloud-native and hybrid architectures (IaaS, PaaS, container-based, microservices)
- Review solution designs and provide architectural assurance across projects
- Ensure architectures meet availability, scalability, performance, and DR/BCP requirements
- Participate in logical and physical database design
- Review/change schema changes, normalization decisions, partitioning strategies
- Review application SQL queries, indexes, database parameters
- Implement DevOps practices (CI/CD for database changes, Infrastructure as Code)
- Manage cloud database services (provisioning, scaling, cost optimization)
- Review database infrastructure which should align with application design
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks (slow queries, index issues, locking/blocking, fragmentation)
- Review and manage application user accounts, privileges, and least-privilege access principles.
- Ensure data security compliance with regulations
- Perform routine maintenance tasks e.g. index rebuilds
- Support database-related incidents on application level
- Collaborate with application teams and infrastructure teams on database related tasks
- Create and maintain standards, procedures, runbooks, and disaster recovery documentation
Requirements
- University degree with over 8 years’ experience in system development or infrastructure setup preferably in financial sector for Architect
- Familiar with Community Edition Database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL and ClickHouse)
- Familiar with CI/CD, DevOps (at public Cloud platforms or on-premises), Terraform, Ansible scripts, Docker and Kubernetes
- Hands-on in cloud infrastructure setup and database management on Cloud will be a definite advantage
- Enthusiastic on learning new technology
- Good technical writing skill
- Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese, with proficiency in Putonghua preferred
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.