Lead, Solution Architect Risk/cfcc(Singapore, India, China, Poland, Malaysia)

**JOB SUMMARY**
- This role will serve as the Solution Architect for Risk/CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance), Audit, Legal Domains and expected to function as a senior member of the larger Risk/CFCC/FCSO/Legal/Audit architecture team. Besides stakeholder management and ensuring that architecture governance and technology standards are met in the assigned domains, the role is also expected to actively own and define the target architectures for these domains and govern the transition states. Working closely with the various Domain Technology teams, the person will also help drive architecture strategy, roadmap, governance and provide architecture guidance where necessary.
- This will then help to drive standardisation and consistency across the Functions domains, with a view of landscape simplification and cost efficiencies.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Responsible for Solution Architecture for Risk/CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance), Audit, Legal Domains
- Collaborate with the wider architecture community across SCB to ensure that Group and Functions Architecture Strategies are executed within the area of responsibility, and on relevant pan-bank topics.
- Responsible to work with Application Architects, project team and vendors to ensure that solutions are aligned to wider Functions/Group Architecture Strategy, Policy and Standards. Understand and review vendor product architecture and capabilities, where applicable
- Ensure that patterns and best practices are being considered and applied across solutions
- Responsible to work with Application Architects, domain teams and/or vendors to define domain architecture roadmaps. Drive wider enterprise-wide strategic Architecture initiatives, where applicable.**Business**
- Collaborate with Business and Technology stakeholders (such as Technology Domain Heads and Global Heads, Domain Architect and Chief Architect) to drive alignment between Business, Architecture and Technology Strategies.
- Engage proactively with business stakeholders to ensure that Architecture is involved at the onset of any solution that requires Technology, through active participation in business strategy workshops, QPRs and/or Refinement Forums.
- Contribute to investment planning/prioritisation with the businesses and TTO.
- Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape, where applicable, across the assigned domains and Group Functions whilst balancing regulatory requirements like cloud approvals, data sovereignty and security.

**Processes**
- Ensure Architecture standards and processes are adhered to for the assigned domain and domain level technical debt is tracked and monitored.
- Work with Application Architects and Project teams on Evaluations and Proof of Concepts for new technologies and other strategic technology initiatives
- Contributes to development of architecture strategy and standards for the organization
- Responsible for creating, maintaining or reviewing Domain/Sub-Domain level architecture documentation in the area of responsibility.
- Responsible for Reviewing Application / Project level architecture documentation from Application Architect/Project Team.
- Facilitate cloud governance & approvals for the assigned domains, constantly seek opportunities for process optimisation and enhancements

**People & Talent**
- Collaborate closely with Application Architect and Project team to provide guidance and drive architecture direction.
- Thought leadership in the assigned domains and key contributor to Group Architecture initiatives/strategy Be a mentor or coach to other members of the team, as appropriate**Risk Management**
- Proactive in seeking regular assurance that function is performing to an acceptable risk and control standards.
- Include internal controls, legal and regulatory requirements in the processes supporting the function
- Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees.
- Balance business performance delivery and cost management with risk and control matters to ensure that it does not materially threaten the Group, remaining within risk appetite.
- Work in collaboration with risk and control teams.

**Governance**
- Be a part of domain architecture governance forums to actively be aware of and govern emerging decisions, in alignment with Functions and wider Enterprise architecture standards/policies/guidelines
- Accountable for the governance of all domain level tech and architecture decisions through the applicable Architecture Review Forums and Functions Tech Council
- Ensure compliance with all salient SCB governance processes/frameworks/policies where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream influence for Group Functions.
- Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compli