Solution Architect Lead

Job ID: 25909

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Ventures

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 14 Apr 2025

• Governance and Architecture Design: Lead domain architecture design, ensuring alignment with Group Enterprise Architecture standards and exercising governance authority to maintain compliance.
• Enterprise Architecture Leadership: SCV Architecture delegated authority on the Group Enterprise Architecture Board, collaborating with key stakeholders to enhance security controls and architectural frameworks.
• Innovation & Research: Drive adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML, blockchain, serverless, edge computing) to develop scalable, cloud-native solutions for SCVentures.
• Venture Alignment: Conduct Architecture Reviews (eg AWS Well-Architected Review) and facilitate solution design checkpoints to align venture strategies with enterprise blueprints.

• Technology Controls and SOPs: Oversee architecture controls and SOPs for Proof of Concepts (and special projects to ensure structured execution.
• Reusable Architecture Patterns Development: Design and document reusable templates for CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, containers, serverless architectures, and AI/ML integrations.
• Onboarding Tech Assessments and Security Framework: Oversee the technology asset lifecycle for SCV Platform Applications and maintain a Technology Standard Catalogue of onboarded/supported applications across SCV and ventures. Oversee the evolution of the Security Toolkit Framework (STK), ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards.
• Proactive Optimization: Continuously improve architecture processes by identifying inefficiencies, recommending enhancements, and implementing mechanisms for proactive issue resolution.
• Resource Management: Manage a team of Architects, Security Architects and/or partner vendor resources as subject-matter experts (SMEs) or fractional tech contributors for venture building and PoC activities.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: On cloud-native best practices, multi-cloud strategies, and emerging technologies through innovation sessions and case studies with the team members and ventures.
• Collaboration: Work closely with venture tech leads and their technology teams, SCV Technology team members, Group T&I stakeholders, Cloud support SMEs, and panel vendors to ensure seamless integration of solutions for ventures.

• 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture or solution architecture roles within dynamic environments such as startups or organizations with complex technology ecosystems (e.g., financial services or technology innovation hubs).
• Proven experience in designing cloud-native architectures leveraging multi-cloud strategies (AWS/Azure), serverless computing models, AI/ML pipelines, blockchain integrations, and edge computing solutions.

• Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Strong understanding of TOGAF principles or similar frameworks for designing scalable architectures aligned with business objectives.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), container orchestration tools (Kubernetes/Docker), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform/CloudFormation), and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Security Controls & Frameworks: Familiarity with security frameworks like CISV8, ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF/CIS Controls; experience implementing zero-trust architectures or quantum-resistant encryption techniques is a plus.
• AI/ML Integration: Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into scalable cloud infrastructures to enhance automation and decision-making processes

• TOGAF Certified Architect or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent multi-cloud certifications.
• CISSP or CISM certifications are good to have to demonstrate expertise in security architecture and governance.

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.