Senior IT Architect (Infra and Cloud)

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Job No.: 495615
Employment Type: Full time
Departments: Information Technology Department
Job Functions: Information Technology

Job Description

The Senior IT Architect (Infra and Cloud) is responsible for providing strategic technical directions on Infra and Cloud architecture intent to the Bank. The right candidate becomes a member of our IT Architect Office which is the technical authority to govern, design and build enterprise-level architecture (including Application, Infra, Data and Security) for the Bank.

Job responsibilities

• Build Enterprise Infra, Cloud and Containerized architecture to align with the technology roadmaps of the Bank.
• Define end-to-end cloud and virtualization infrastructure strategy, standard and process, establish framework and operation model for enterprise architectures, and manage system infrastructure using cloud and virtualization standard and technique.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards and best practices related to enterprise architectures, and ensure they are consistently applied.
• Maintain and review IT technical standard components to align with the technology roadmaps.
• Identify, evaluate and manage the associated risks related to Infra and Cloud architecture.
• Provide expert advice on technical best practices, industry trends and emerging technologies in related domains (including but not limited to Cloud, and 5G/6G, SDDC).
• Research, identify, and evaluate new technologies or products in the related area that are of value to IT development.
• Provide advisories for technology innovations for business challenges.

Experience and Qualifications

• Degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology or related disciplines.
• At least 10 years of post-qualification IT experience with minimum 5 years in Infra Architect or Cloud Architect related roles, preferably in banking or financial services industries.
• Strong experience in managing IT infrastructure, including network, storage, server, OS, virtualization technology, databases, middle-tier software management.
• Strong experience in designing and managing Infra / Cloud platforms and related technologies, including but not limited to K8S, Docker, OpenShift, software-defined data centers and distributed databases.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure architectures, particularly in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS enterprise cloud computing and containerized architectures, technology, and applications.
• Good understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF.
• Good knowledge of emerging technologies, market best practices and industry trends.
• Profound knowledge in enterprise security architecture, design and management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good command of both written and spoken English and Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin).
• Proven strategic thinker to provide big picture and visions for future technology development.
• Holder of related professional certificates are definitely an added advantage.
• Candidates with less experience will be considered as IT Architect.

We offer competitive remuneration package and comprehensive fringe benefits including medical and life insurance, and different types of allowances to the right candidate. Interested parties, please submit your application online. For details, please visit our website http://www.bochk.com

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