Solution Architect
Hitachi, Ltd.4 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end solution architectures across applications, data platforms, infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, high-performance technical solutions.
- Define application and data architectures integrating analytics and predictive models.
- Establish cloud, on-premises, and hybrid IT infrastructure strategies for scalability, availability, and cost efficiency.
- Embed cybersecurity principles, including IAM, data protection, network security, and secure design, across solution layers.
- Design system integrations using APIs, data pipelines, messaging, streaming, and interoperability frameworks.
- Enable data and analytics capabilities for predictive and data-driven use cases.
- Provide technical leadership across the design, build, deploy, and operate lifecycle.
- Ensure architecture governance, compliance, security, and adherence to best practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on technology and solution strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5–10 years of experience in software development and solution architecture with a track record of delivering scalable technology solutions.
- Strong experience designing architectures across application, data platform, and IT infrastructure layers.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
- Hands-on knowledge of programming, containerization, orchestration, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices-based architecture.
- Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, APIs, messaging, and streaming.
- Experience with data lakes, data warehouses, real-time processing, stream processing, analytics ecosystems, and predictive use cases.
- Familiarity with DevOps and MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployments.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, IAM, network security and segmentation, data encryption, and data protection.
- Understanding of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and edge environments.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems, with knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement skills.
- Exposure to asset management, operational systems, or data-driven solutions is advantageous.
- Proficiency in Italian is advantageous for communication with Italian-speaking stakeholders.
Benefits
- Secure and permanent full-time employment with a global company.
- International teamwork and networking through internal employee networks.
- Work on global rail digitization, sustainable mobility, and railway reliability initiatives.
- Equal-opportunity and inclusive workplace supporting diversity and professional development.
- Onsite work in Singapore; the posting specifies that the role is not remote.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.