Chief Manager - System Architect

Technology Architecture Implementation

Understand and implement enterprise-wide technology architecture across applications

Build a technology framework and identify areas for synergies

Ensure social, mobility, analytics and cloud computing are integrated into the technology architecture

Provide ideas to optimize the return on investment across the enterprise

Negotiate with businesses to ensure proper prioritization and resolution of conflicting demands to enable optimal rollout of the technology architecture

IT Blueprint Implementation

Identify and analyse the enterprise business drivers in the context of business processes, products, applications, data and technologies

Identify service interfaces across the businesses requiring new innovations and recommend technologies that address these specific needs

Study industry/ market trends and technology innovations adopted by competitor

Interface with other fintech organizations to evaluate their solutions

Assess suitability of new solutions

Develop quick proof-of-concepts for these new technologies to test them out

Evaluate performance, scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability, and possible returns on investing in their implementation

Monitor performance of applications (e.g. response time, availability, reliability etc.), and identify and prioritize opportunities to improve them periodically

Review existing applications to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve the response time, availability, reliability etc. while reducing costs

Stakeholder Management

Act as an interface and Subject Matter Expert between businesses and technology partners/ vendors to identify opportunities for tech enablement/ enhancements, enabling a mutual understanding of the enterprise architecture and technology opportunities/constraints amongst all concerned parties

Collaborate with business heads to understand the - forward looking- trends and strategy for their respective businesses

Manage expectations and aspirations of each business while prioritizing technology requirements of different businesses

Work with vendors to develop quick proof-of-concepts

Alignment with the Group

Ensure technology architecture for the four businesses does not deviate widely from the ABFSG technology roadmap thereby enabling the group to drive group level efficiencies