Lead Architect

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONBILITIES

• Lead architects and teams through the shift to AI-first, agent-enabled ways of building and delivering
• Translate horizon scanning on AI and emerging tech into enterprise strategy, priorities, and cross-cutting capabilities
• Align senior stakeholders on long-term digital direction and accelerate responsible innovation at pace
• Support communities and chapters that spread adoption, learning, and shared practice
• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across enterprises and seek opportunities for improvement
• Support at least one community or chapter or a combination of both
• Lead teams including enterprise architects and help them understand how to deliver the team’s objectives to meet organizational goals
• Carry out horizon scanning across the industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity
• Support successful delivery of the long-term strategy
• Take a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities
• Identify priorities for change to enable delivery at increasing pace
• Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that enable change

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 12+ years experience in IT, with a focus on systems architecture, software development and IT process
• 7+ years experience in a senior IT role, preferably as an Enterprise Architect or similar leadership position
• Proficiency in IT infrastructure, including cloud computing, networking, databases, and application development
• Expert knowledge of integration patterns and practices
• Strategic thinking and ability to align IT strategy with business goals
• Ability to mentor and develop more junior architects and IT staff
• Capability to drive organizational change and foster a culture of innovation
• Experience in ensuring that IT systems meet security and regulatory requirements
• Expert understanding of DevOps practices and tools
• Extensive experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Chinese
• Strong ability to evaluate emerging technologies and assess their potential impact
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
• Ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders
• Hands-on experience designing and architecting AI agents (e.g., orchestration patterns, tool use, memory, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows)
• AI-first mindset: able to reframe business and technology problems through the lens of intelligent automation and generative AI, not as a bolt-on feature
• Deep practical understanding of GenAI capabilities and limitations — what it can reliably deliver today, where it fails, and how to architect around uncertainty, hallucination, cost, latency, and compliance risk
• In-depth knowledge of specific technology stacks and platforms used in IT
• Expertise in API-first integration