Architect Lead recruitment
The successful applicant will engage with stakeholders and provide leadership and guidance in complex technical programs. Within the team they will be actively involved in defining and setting final-state and interim visions for technology paths.
This is not a hands-on coding role, though the successful candidate will have previously excelled in this discipline.
Responsibilities:
- With input from the business, operations, and technology partners, actively participate in the definition of target architectures, the projects to achieve those architectures, the prioritization of those projects into a delivery roadmap, and the development of interim architectures and initiatives according to that roadmap.
- Contribute to the definition of - and ensure alignment of technology solutions to - IT standards and guidelines within APAC Treasury Services, that themselves align with other firm-wide standards and policies (Engineering Board, Information Risk Management Board, Buy-Hold-Sell standards database, regulatory, and operational)
- Provide input to improve and refine firm-wide standards and policies, and helps define Architecture Principals and Building Blocks
- Perform Architecture Reviews with Application Development teams as well as Infrastructure, Internal Risk Management (IRM) and Audit teams to ensure adherence to standards, information risk management policies, re-use of components and reduced functional redundancy
- Document technology landscape, and maintain definition to ensure it's accuracy and completeness.
- Communicate with key stakeholders around vision and strategy, emerging technologies, corporate architecture principles, Treasury Services architectures, Line Of Business (LOB) roadmaps, firm-wide standards and policies.
- Builds formal and informal network of peers within JPMC Treasury Services across the regions.
- Maintain a "Technology Watch" to identity emerging technologies that are relevant to the Line Of Business. Build awareness of key emerging technologies and promote to the business in order to address their needs.
- Define and lead proof-of-concepts and assist in preparing emerging technology proposals
- Guide Application Development teams during the analysis, concept and design phases of technology projects.
- Lead competing system rationalization and standardization agenda to select target application portfolio
- Lead technology teams in procurement initiatives (RFI, RFP) and associated activities.
- Develop summary and detailed presentations to promote strategies and recommendations.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a technology related disciple preferred; technical training with appropriate level of experience may be considered. Advanced degree in a relevant business or technical discipline is desirable.
- Architecture-specific technical certifications preferred. For example in Architecture Frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachmann, or similar.
- 10+ years of technology experience, five years of which are at an architect level, working with multiple technologies and complex, large scale systems, preferably in the financial services industry
- Application knowledge of Banking Application including Payment and Demand Deposit Account (DDA) systems is desirable.
Technical Skills:
- Application Development - Proficient
- Business Analysis - Proficient
- Business Applications Knowledge - Proficient
- Business Continuity/Resiliency Knowledge - Proficient
- Database Development - Proficient
- Infrastructure Product Knowledge - Advanced
- IT Risk Management - Advanced
- Design Patterns and Anti-patterns - Advanced
- Understanding of key technical architecture concepts - advanced
- Proficiency in a mix of technologies - hardware, software, middleware in a mainframe and distributed environment, including J2EE and associated tools, AIX, Solaris, Linux, file transfer tools and protocols, message-oriented-middleware, databases - primarily Oracle - in an "n-tiered" environment.
Professional Skills:
- Firm/Business Knowledge - Proficient
- Payment and deposit application knowledge is an advantage
- Industry Acumen - Proficient
- Influence Persuasion Skills - Advanced
- Innovation - Advanced
- Architecture Governance Frameworks - advantage
May 14, 2012
• Tags: Architect Lead recruitment, Information Technology careers in the Hong Kong SAR • Posted in: Financial