Job Title:
Technical Architect
Role Summary
The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, owning, and governing the end-to-end architecture blueprint of an in-house, cloud-native enterprise system undergoing modernization. The role establishes the technical foundation of the new platform, ensures scalability, security, and audit readiness, and enables data-driven and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate. The role also provides limited, time-bound architectural guidance to the legacy platform to ensure operational continuity during transition.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, draw, and maintain the end-to-end architecture blueprint, covering:
- Application and service architecture
- Data, integration, and event flows
- Security, access control, and compliance design
- Cloud infrastructure and deployment model
- Design scalable, secure, and modular solutions using public cloud services, primarily on Google Cloud Platform, across:
- Application and compute
- Data and analytics
- Integration and messaging
- Security and identity
- Networking and observability
- AI and machine learning
- Select appropriate cloud services based on business requirements, risk, performance, scalability, and cost.
- Define architectural patterns for API-driven, event-based, and microservice-oriented systems.
- Establish the data and AI architecture, enabling analytics and AI-assisted capabilities using cloud-native data and AI/ML services where applicable.
- Ensure AI-enabled components follow governance, explainability, security, and auditability requirements, with clear separation from rule-based logic.
- Provide architectural direction, standards, and technical guardrails to development and DevOps teams.
- Review and approve solution designs, major technical decisions, and implementation approaches.
- Ensure the platform supports logging, monitoring, resiliency, data integrity, and future expansion.
- Provide limited architectural support to the legacy platform, focusing on stability, risk reduction, and transition readiness.
- Act as the primary technical authority during the platform foundation and modernization phase.
Required Skills & Experience
- 610+ years of experience in solution or system architecture.
- Strong experience designing enterprise, cloud-native platforms.
- Proven background in:
- Distributed systems and microservices
- API and integration architecture
- Security and data governance
- Experience with public cloud platforms and managed services.
- Solid understanding of data platforms and AI/ML integration patterns.
- Experience supporting legacy systems during modernization initiatives.
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Cloud Experience Requirement
- Google Cloud Platform experience is preferred.
- Strong equivalent experience in AWS or Azure is acceptable, provided the candidate demonstrates the ability to adapt and design effectively on Google Cloud.
Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated, mission-critical, or large-scale enterprise systems.
- Experience designing data-driven or AI-enabled platforms.
- Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure architecture certifications.
- Willing to work onsite at our Ortigas Center office and comfortable with UK time hours
