IT Infrastructure Architect

Position Summary
Responsible for infrastructure areas of solution evaluation of application or infrastructure systems and supporting the definition of infrastructure architecture and strategy, including architecture standards, policies and roadmap for the relevant infrastructure domains to achieve the vision.

Essential Requirements

• Develop and drive legacy infrastructure and platform modernization strategies, including technology refresh, application modernization, migration planning, and technical debt reduction to improve operational efficiency, resilience, security, and business agility.
• Evaluate, recommend, and govern technology diversification initiatives across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments to minimize technology concentration risks, enhance service resilience, and optimize cost, performance, and vendor management.
• Support the adoption of AI and intelligent automation technologies by providing infrastructure architecture guidance, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, data governance standards, cybersecurity controls, risk management policies, and enterprise architecture principles
• Participate in evaluation of products, services and vendors
• Ensure H/W, S/W, Cloud infrastructure technologies are being evaluated to improve infrastructure operation
• Advise critical emerging application or infrastructure technologies
• Develop infrastructure technology platform strategies, directions & roadmap to meet capability & capacity requirements for business operation & growth through benchmarking & adoption of best practices
• Support Infrastructure teams to define architecture standards & strategies based on Infrastructure vision, industrial standards & best practices to enable manageable, scalable and high-performance infrastructure environment
• Conduct architecture reviews, approval and root cause analysis for complex issues and develop strategies for security baseline, governance, resilience, disaster recovery in seamless on-premise and cloud environments
• Support infrastructure teams to analyze, recommend & support platform technology issues.
• Review & validate infrastructure solutions for complex or non-standard configurations proposed by project teams
• Carry out Infrastructure related task in accordance with IT support strategy for Overseas Branches

Compliance & Risk Management

• Comply with all applicable regulations, rules, codes, guidelines and standards set by regulators and the Bank, and carry out duties with high integrity; and
• Adhere to all established risk control guidelines, procedures and measures to identify, assess, report, mitigate and monitor the risks involved in the day-to-day work