IT Solutions Architect - Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Architecture

About the role

The Lead Domain Architect, Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Architecture is a senior role within Group IT Architecture. It defines and evolves Great Eastern's enterprise cloud, infrastructure and platform architecture across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other entities, setting target-state architecture, principles, standards and guardrails. The role works with application, integration, data and AI teams, engineering, operations, Security, Risk and Compliance, and delivers architecture leadership and coaching.

Key responsibilities

• Define enterprise cloud, infrastructure and platform architecture, including principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures and reusable patterns, and set transition roadmaps.
• Guide workload placement across public cloud, private cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments, and address fragmentation, platform duplication and architectural debt.
• Set standards for cloud landing zones, account structures, network segmentation, identity integration, access control, policy enforcement, logging, monitoring, backup and security baselines.
• Establish infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code principles, and promote platform engineering practices, container orchestration and observability patterns.
• Define standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity, performance and operational resilience, and establish observability patterns.
• Translate security, risk, regulatory and compliance requirements into security-by-design, privacy-by-design and compliance-by-design controls, including network security, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability management.
• Provide architecture assurance for major programmes, review solution designs, guide delivery teams, serve on the Architecture Review Board and develop architecture decision records, reference architectures and playbooks.
• Lead, coach and mentor architects, engineers, platform and operations teams, and influence senior stakeholders to adopt architecture standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform or enterprise architecture, or a similar senior architecture role in a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience reviewing and guiding major technology initiatives such as cloud adoption, infrastructure modernisation, application modernisation, data platforms, integration platforms or digital delivery.
• Experience in insurance, banking or financial services is an advantage.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, influencing and facilitation skills, and the ability to explain complex architecture to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to lead change and take accountability for business and regulatory compliance risks.

Required skills

• Understanding of cloud governance, including landing zones, account structures, identity integration, network segmentation, policy enforcement, logging, monitoring, backup and security baselines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation and platform engineering, including infrastructure-as-code, configuration automation, environment standardisation and self-service platforms.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, cloud architecture frameworks and industry standards such as TOGAF, Well-Architected Frameworks, ITIL or SRE.