Enterprise Architect

Vice President (Strategic Initiatives) at Sciente Job Summary An opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to provide overall governance that ensures efficient, consistent and compliant execution of technology solutions. Ideal candidate should have technical knowledge and skills in system architecture and solutioning, technology deployment and operations to ensure technology platforms and solutions adhere to architecture standards for new initiatives as well as ongoing changes. Mandatory Skill-set Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Information System; Must have minimum 12 years of design and implementation experience in Enterprise Architecture Governance, Solution Architect, Distributed Applications, and Service Oriented Architectures ( SOA ) Frameworks; Must have experience in designing, developing and deploying large, scalable production applications on Cloud / PaaS platforms and Containers ( such as AWS, Google and Azure ); Deep understanding of technology stack including Enterprise Java and Spring Boot, front-end technologies and framework (such as ReactJS), mobile application development, middleware and integration technologies; Experience in overall governance of IT solutions, framework, policies, processes, and rules that ensure effective, consistent, and compliant execution of technology solutions; Proficient in conceptualizing and deriving common architectural designs across multiple services; Highly conversant in architectural concepts, principles and SOA governance practice; Solid Agile development experience and has experience architecting large enterprise-wide systems; Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate architecture methods, concepts, standards and policies; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and able to work well with cross-organizational teams. Desired Skill-set Certified in TOGAF / ITIL / COBIT / CISA; Experience in Financial / Insurance Industry and relevant regulatory requirements, such as MAS TRM Guidelines. Responsibilities Lead enterprise-wide solution architecture for organization's digital transformation journey, to set the direction and deliver the Enterprise Architecture (EA) future state; Conceptualize, Architect, Design Digital Solutions & Research on current state, identify the gaps and map out the to-be state and roadmap; Provide guidance in establishing architecture policies, standards, processes and platform to drive scalability and proposed changes where required; Developing and communicating guiding principles, governance structures related to the selection of architectural components; Ensure technology platforms and solutions adhere to architecture standards for new initiatives and ongoing changes; Overall architecture governance, including but not limited to security, quality, compliance and data; Ensure regular administration of architecture review including facilitation of resolution of feedback, tracking and follow up for effective closure of design gap; Ensuring consistency in design, principles are maintained and supported; Provide direction and advise on organization-wide technology changes in the development of enterprise business architecture vision and related IT solutions; Partner with business, product and technology team in the delivery of solutions and results through technology enhancements, development and implementation; Guide application operations, propose new solution methodologies and mentor the team raising the collective technical competencies; Ensure collaboration to maintain up-to-date architecture and solution artefacts as well as communication materials for stakeholders, technology forums, and community engagements. Important Notices Should you be interested in this career opportunity, please send in your updated resume to at the earliest. When you apply, you voluntarily consent to the disclosure, collection and use of your personal data for employment/recruitment and related purposes in accordance with the SCIENTE Group Privacy Policy, a copy of which is published at SCIENTE’s website ( Confidentiality is assured, and only shortlisted candidates will be notified for interviews. EA Licence No. 07C5639 Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Contract Job function Information Technology, Strategy/Planning, and Research Industries IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services, and Insurance EA Licence No. 07C5639 #J-18808-Ljbffr