Digital Architect

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.

Job Description

• Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms / product reusable components
• Formulate the PACS Infrastructure policy, framework and design
• 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. 
• 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 group strategy; Lead the preparation of detailed design 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 other Technology & Digital teams to develop and agree system integration plans and review progress
• 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.

Who we are looking for:

Technical Skills & work experience:

• Proven experience as an Architecture leader with overall experience between 7 - 10 years
• Demonstrated ability to understand business strategy & processes & its successful translation into technology solutions
• Experience with cloud engineering, SRE (preferably Azure)
• Hands-on experience with software development and system administration
• Excellent knowledge of technical architecture and modern design patterns, including microservices, serverless functions, data and AI etc.
• Deep End-to-End Architecture understanding
• Experienced in streaming technology or frameworks
• Familiar with one or more Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF etc.)
• Good understanding of DevOps

Personal Traits: 

• Exceptional team player
• Strong communication skills & ability to engage senior stakeholders on strategic plans
• Ability to lead committees and provide timely status updates
• Excellent problem analysis skills. Innovative and creative in developing solutions
• Ability and willingness to be hands-on
• Strong attention to details
• Ability to work independently

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.