Enterprise Architect

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The Enterprise Architect defines an integrated holistic IT architecture align to vision and business strategy to support the Prudential Singapore to achieve its mission and vision.

**Job Description**:

- Creates robust, extensible enterprise architecture for moderate to high complexity systems.
- Partners with multiple IT groups to establish and keep relevant multi-year business architecture and related technical roadmaps and architectures that facilitate the achievement of business strategies, objectives, and goals, including delivery of innovative and transformational solutions.
- Provides forward thinking, strategic input to business as they refine and refresh multi-year strategic plans.
- Maintains an up-to-date perspective of information technology industry including design and architectural patterns, best practices, industry trends and technology trends.
- Actively conducts research to ensure the business remains innovative and relevant in the technology space.
- Designs and implements standards, tools and methodologies to ensure the overall IT Portfolio’s architecture is maintained in a coherent manner.
- Establishes practical design approaches and standards through product research, evaluation, and proof-of-concept activities and ensures product quality through design and code review.
- Maintains oversight on technology inventory and ensure upcoming end to vendor support assets are managed on a timely manner.

Who we are looking for:
Competencies & Personal Traits
- Must have in-depth experience with Java, J2EE,.NET, JSON, SOAP/Restful APIs, web services, XML, Windows/Linux environments, Services Oriented Architecture, Online Transaction Processing, batch processing/scheduling, and enterprise service buses.
- In-depth experience of utilizing secure architecture design patterns, principles and standards.
- In-depth experience with designing highly scalable cross-platform database solutions with comprehensive understanding of both Operational and Analytical Data Architecture, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Reliability for enterprise systems.
- Hands-on experience with security concepts and standards, such as, OAuth, SAML, JWT, PCI DSS, PII, encryption, tokenization.
- Proven track record to drive rapid prototyping and design for new projects and analytic R&D environments.
- Must have experience creating project solution blueprints, technical specifications, and high level design documents.
- Knowledge of network architecture principles and concepts, including tiering, segmentation, DMZs, firewalls, load-balancing, throttling, failover, and disaster recovery.
- Working knowledge of security technologies and considerations, including SAML 2.0, SSO, oAuth, JWT etc

Working Experience
- 6-7 years’ experience in serving as an architect within a medium to large company or consulting organization including at least recent 3 years in an enterprise architect role.

Professional Qualifications
- Certified EA - TOGAF 9.1/EACOE is preferred.

Education
- Bachelor or diploma in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent

Language
- Fluent written and spoken English