Director, Enterprise Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall enterprise architecture strategy and vision, overseeing the entire IT landscape of an organization, ensuring it aligns with business goals and strategy
• Define and elaborate SMBC’s system target architecture blueprint,  which allows to have a common technology direction aligning with business strategy
• Establish and maintain the overarching EA framework, policy, standard, procedure, guidelines, ensuring adherence to architecture guiding principles and standard
• Creating and maintaining system landscape diagrams that visualize the overall IT and business landscape
• Establish and maintain the as-is & to-be architectures for each domain based on the SMBC enterprise architecture framework
• Establish and maintain the strategy and roadmap to adopt the target architecture , and architecture standards & guidelines and the governance process
• Conduct the architectural and security review for all the key projects, and provide the technical consultation support to implementation
• Work in close collaboration with IT & Biz project teams to improve the architecture and security design of applications
• Effectively collaborate with different stakeholders in the organization to drive & support the digital transformation
• Leads the enterprise architect team to design and implement the solution for foundational IT platforms such as hybrid cloud , data Lakehouse, API Portal and API gateway, Enterprise Service Bus etc.
• Collaborate with the IT project managers and technical architects to review and validate the solution design to ensure in line with enterprise IT strategy, standards and guidelines

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with min. of 15 years of experience in solutioning for large complex programs with experience in banking solutions.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale enterprise IT systems and banking applications.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to engage senior management effectively, supported by strong verbal, written communication, and executive presence.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and services.
• Familiarity with core banking systems, digital banking platforms, payment gateways, and cybersecurity.
• Proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and compliant IT infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge in security standards and practices, experience in design the solution to meet the security requirement.
• Ability to assess complex IT environments and propose effective architecture solutions.
• Strategic thinking and innovation to improve IT capabilities.
• Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams and projects, ability to foster collaboration between IT and business units.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and fintech innovations relevant to banking.
• Work location: One@ChangiCity