Enterprise Architect (Business & Application Architecture)

We are looking for candidates specializing in daily investment transactions processing and related projects implementation.

Job Description

• Business strategy to system architecture translation: Understand the product strategies of each business line (Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Financial Markets) and, for key business products and projects, define how business capabilities are placed across systems — which capability resides in which system, which are reused from Head Office platforms, and which require local build or consolidation — and produce a three-to-five-year target architecture and evolution roadmap, presenting it to senior management and Head Office.

• Eliminating breakpoints and bottlenecks across front, middle and back office: Working from end-to-end customer journeys, identify breakpoints (process discontinuities, duplicate data entry) and bottlenecks (missing capabilities, system silos) between the channels layer, the product/risk middle office and the core accounting/regulatory reporting back office; design the integration solution and lead its delivery.

• Architecture consultation and Head Office review liaison: Before major projects are initiated, consult the Head Office architecture team on existing solutions and platform capabilities to confirm reusable components; issue the branch's architecture design, represent the branch in Head Office architecture reviews, and track review findings through to closure.

• Capability reuse and system consolidation: Drive the buildup of shared capabilities (customer master data, credit limits, pricing, compliance watchlists, collateral management, etc.) to reduce siloed build; lead legacy system consolidation, decommissioning and data migration planning.

• Technology evaluation and team enablement: Assess the feasibility, risk and compliance of AI / large-language-model use cases in banking from a business-value perspective, and lead the resulting pilots; coach and develop application architects and senior technologists.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Information Engineering or a related discipline; 10+ years of IT experience in banking or large financial institutions, including 5+ years as an architect, with full enterprise-level architecture experience across systems, departments and domains — not single-system or single-project architecture.

• Proven ownership of the full journey from "business strategy → system placement design → target architecture → transition architecture → evolution roadmap"; candidates should be prepared to walk through a real case in interview.

• Hands-on experience in business capability modeling / value stream analysis; solid understanding of the front / middle / back-office system landscape of a commercial bank and its common integration breakpoints, with end-to-end process re-engineering projects led end to end.

• Pragmatic technical depth sufficient to make designs land: API / messaging / event-driven integration, customer master data consistency, distributed transactions and ledger consistency, asynchronous process orchestration. Expert-level certification in any specific cloud vendor is not required.

• Familiar with mainstream architecture methodologies; understanding of the group control model in which Head Office sets standards and conducts reviews while the branch consults and executes, with hands-on experience presenting branch architecture designs and passing Head Office review.

• Understanding of regulatory expectations on technology architecture (e.g. HKMA expectations for designated systemically important institutions and operational resilience guidelines, data governance and cross-border data security); experience in security architecture or business continuity management is a plus.

• Fluent Mandarin is a must (regular collaboration with the Mainland-based Head Office): able to consult the Head Office architecture team, present branch architecture designs and defend them in review, all in Mandarin. Good Cantonese and English; able to independently author architecture documents and executive reporting materials in both Chinese and English.

• Excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills: able to engage business line heads as a peer and drive architecture decisions to closure in a multi-party environment.