Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure

Reports to: Head of Technology & Architecture

The Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure is responsible for providing leadership and vision to Infrastructure Managers and Infrastructure Architects in developing architectural infrastructure roadmaps and conducting reviews on IT infrastructure solutions. 

• Drive the enterprise infrastructure architecture and roadmap definition, including architecture vision, principles, standards and policies, target state blueprints, and roadmap for the relevant infrastructure domains.
• Work closely and collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to align the enterprise architecture strategy (for all business and technology domains).
• Work closely with infrastructure architects to ensure decisions meet long term enterprise growth needs.
• Drive to implement best practices and industry patterns to enable manageable, scalable, and high-performance solutions.
• Identify opportunities for improved business performance using enterprise architecture vision and target state through process or technology change.
• Support the Infrastructure team in defining the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Actively engage in and contribute to relevant solution design review activities and enterprise architecture governance forums and conduct project technical reviews and health checks.
• Actively engage in the analysis of technology industry and spanet trends to determine their potential impact on the business/application architecture.
• Cross-team collaboration with architects, infrastructure leads, and engineers to communicate infrastructure development needs and design.
• Provide valuable assistance and advice to complex projects.
• Support continuous improvement of Cathay IT Standards and Practices.
• Mentor the infrastructure architects and infrastructure engineering team. Promote ideas for using the effective technologies.
• Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, industry, and corresponding business domain.

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines.
• Minimum 12 years of IT experience with at least 7 years in infrastructure strategy and architecture design or technology enablement related position.
• Proven abilities to develop enterprise architectures with excellent analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects, and to think creatively and beyond normal constraints.
• In-depth knowledge of workplace, middleware, infrastructure, network and security technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud-native concepts, methods and related technologies.
• Passion and ability to learn new technologies and their application.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Excellent breadth of thinking, able to provide pragmatic solutions that consider all relevant constraints whether technical, financial, organisational, risk, or capability based.
• Airline knowledge is an advantage.
• TOGAF certification is preferred.

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