DBS - Solutions Architect

Location: Singapore
Business sector: Data Engineering with Machine Learning Fundamentals
Job reference: 543557
Published: almost 2 years ago
Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels. 

What You'll Be Doing 
  • Be part of team of solution architects and domain experts to provide fit for purpose solutions.
  • Transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created. Conversion that is based on several factors: previous, successful design patterns, reference architectures and enterprise architecture guidance.
  • Understands business functions, construct a solution architecture around Microservices and APIs, and be able to decompose monolith applications into meaningful implementable Microservices and APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment.
  • Provide technology perspective to business to help guide roadmap and prioritization by keeping abreast with industry trends. Where required, help business size the complexity of problem and help simplify and define MVP.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, during the SDLC. Get development team’s buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented.
  • Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles. Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.
  • Be a consumer and contributor to enterprise architecture collateral. The patterns and guidance developed should be reusable in a broader enterprise architecture context.
  • Document and manage how multiple applications are poised to work together. Involves defining the interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware systems in terms of functional coverage.
Skills You'll Need
  • Experience with event based and microservice solutions developed in large cloud computing infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, and/or Google Cloud.
  • Prior experience as a enterprise/application architect in designing large, complex enterprise applications.
  • Presence in open source projects will be huge plus.
  • Experience in design Cloud native, Event based and Microservice Architecture.
  • Deep End-to-End Enterprise Architecture understanding, including Enterprise Java Stack (JEE), Rich UI and Front-End technologies, Middleware technologies (Tibco, Solace etc), Mainframe technologies, Databases (SQL & No SQL), Data Warehouses, and Core Banking solutions.
  • Experienced in streaming technology or framework such as Kafka and able to select suitable technology for given situation, code quality Api/tool, logging/tracing, circuit breakers.
  • Experienced working in a cloud native work environment, spring cloud data, Spring Security, oAuth, service monitoring on cloud, PaaS environment such as Pivotal, Kubernetes.
  • Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration and Messaging Patterns, SOA Governance practices.
  • Strong communication skills including engaging senior management on strategic plans, leading project steering committees and status updates etc.
  • Experienced in Agile methodology.
  • Ability to work independently and handle multiple concurrent initiatives
  • Excellent organizational, vendor management, negotiation, and prioritization skills.
  • Excellent team player and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Proactive and able to work under pressure, strong problem-solving skills and positive “can do” attitude.