Enterprise Architect

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Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Role

This role requires the candidate to have curate & apply depth of knowledge to help the Enterprise architecture team deliver the above. In addition, the role will focus deeply on :

• Asia, Africa geographies to guide their future architecture roadmap.
• Multi-cloud infrastructure with regards to policy and design framework.
• Work closely with GBS Business Design Lead, Chief of GBS and Functional Leads to establish new standards and develop target architectures for GBS
• Conduct architecture assessments and define target state solutions
• Provide the technical scope, defining and driving the best solution to meet the technical performance, scalability, flexibility, operations and capability needs of Functional teams
• Support the technology solutioning and estimating in proposals, planning and pricing
• Develop long-term technology strategies centered on business objectives
• Identify services that will improve performance, enhance support, and increase capabilities
• Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms / Product reusable components.
• Formulate the Group Infrastructure policy and multi cloud framework and design, in conjunction with other domain architects representing Digital, Data, AI, Engineering, Security, operations and Local Business Units.
• Build future state architecture to encompass business strategy with design consideration of convergence, modernization, cost efficiency, business functionality, interpretability, cloud native design, resilience, security and future proofing.
• Build an ongoing view on emergent market landscape for technology insights, direction, vendors, and methods.
• Identify and evaluate alternative design options and trade-offs to handle both functional and non-functional requirements; Recommend designs that consider current applications & architecture, operating models as well as end target state architecture.
• Responsible for end-to-end architecture, high- & low-level designs of various systems and applications in line with Asia group strategy; Lead the preparation of detailed Solution specifications to form the basis for development & modification of applications; Define integration patterns.
• Ensure adoption and implementation of defined solutions; Provide technical expertise to enable the application design & iteration; Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and review progress for Africa, India and Asia.
• Lead one of the Enterprise Architecture clusters when required to create harmony in application architectures.
• Ensure that Extensions and additions to the defined architecture are undertaken frequently in line with every evolving business and technology landscape but go through rigorous vetting processes.
• Ensure that the collaborative nature of capabilities such as design and engineering is coupled with tight governance around non-negotiables like security, availability and performance.

Qualifications

Location

Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Recruitment Notice

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

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