Senior IT Architect, Greater China

This Senior IT Architect in China is a seasoned member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The Senior IT Architect helps set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operate within. In addition, the Senior IT Architect helps develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.

Your day to day

• Responsible for designing and implementing the China region’s overarching IT infrastructure and systems architecture. Primary focus will be on aligning technology strategies with business objectives, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency across all IT initiatives that comply with local data privacy laws and security standards.
• Collaborate with senior management to define technology strategies and roadmaps that support business growth and innovation within the China region.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technology solutions and platforms that meet business requirements, ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability.
• Lead the design of cloud-native, scalable, and cost-effective architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, integrating China regional services with Global services which reside on-premises and in other cloud platforms.
• Create and maintain detailed architectural artifacts (e.g., architecture diagrams, design documents, data models) to visualize, communicate, and document the cloud solutions and architectures using tools like Lucidchart to create and update diagrams that represent cloud architectures, data flows, security models, and integration points.
• Document decision-making processes, trade-offs, and rationale behind architecture choices to support future scaling, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Translates industry technology direction to business value and serves as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing new research and innovative approaches.
• Accountable for the development of high-level business cases, with the ability to influence senior leadership, business partners, architects and key stakeholders within the architecture team and other functional areas on the adoption of technical solutions and drive the solution to completion. 
• Research and evaluate, or provide direction to others researching and evaluating, new technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.
• Provides guidance and enterprise‐wide influence leading to solutions that are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.
• Building relationships with senior leaders in both the China and Global regions to influence architectural outcomes.
• Advise in decisions regarding strategic partnerships, vendor selection and acquisitions.

What we need from you

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Typically, a minimum of 10-15+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.
• Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.
• Expert understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family.
• Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).
• Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS‐9000, FDA, Six Sigma).

Required Skills: 

• Middleware Focused:
  • Java
  • REST
  • Enterprise Caching Architectures 
  • Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka 
  • Micro Service Architecture
  • Public Facing APIs and API Gateways
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns
  • Data Transformation and ETL
• Data Focused: 
  • Big Data
  • Data Design Principles and Best Practices
  • Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms
  • Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions 
  • BI tools
  • GCP Analytic Tools 
  • Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
  • Forecast and Demand Planning Applications
  • Master Data Management Applications

Hot Skills: 

• Cloud Focused:
  • Salesforce and Data Cloud
  • AWS and cloud-native architectures
• Data Focused: 
  • Hospitality Data 
  • Big Data
  • Relational Data
  • AI/ML
  • Data Pipelines
  • BI Tools & Reporting 
• Middleware Focused: 
  • Web Application
  • Native Application
  • Property Management System
  • Kubernetes