Digital Architect
Prudential plc2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Define long-term architectural direction for platforms and reusable product components.
- Formulate infrastructure policy, frameworks, and designs.
- Develop future-state architecture addressing modernization, cost efficiency, cloud-native design, resilience, security, and business functionality.
- Evaluate design alternatives and trade-offs across functional and non-functional requirements.
- Own end-to-end architecture and high- and low-level designs for systems and applications.
- Prepare detailed design specifications for application development and modification.
- Define integration patterns and ensure adoption and implementation of approved solutions.
- Provide technical expertise for application design and iteration.
- Collaborate with Technology and Digital teams on system integration plans and progress reviews.
- Maintain governance around security, availability, and performance while supporting collaborative design and engineering.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of overall experience as an architecture leader.
- Ability to translate business strategy and processes into successful technology solutions.
- Experience with cloud engineering and SRE, preferably using Azure.
- Hands-on experience with software development and system administration.
- Strong knowledge of technical architecture and modern design patterns, including microservices, serverless functions, data, and AI.
- Deep end-to-end architecture understanding.
- Experience with streaming technologies or frameworks.
- Familiarity with one or more architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF.
- Good understanding of DevOps.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, problem analysis, independent working, attention to detail, and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Ability to lead committees and provide timely status updates.
About Prudential plc
Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management for consumers across Asia and Africa, including through its Eastspring Investments arm. The public company is headquartered in Hong Kong with dual primary listings in Hong Kong and London, and traces its origins to 1848 in the UK. Its products span protection, savings, and retirement, distributed via agents, bancassurance partners, and digital channels.