Architect

The Technical & Solution Architect is responsible for defining the technology strategy, platform standards, and infrastructure blueprints for the HRCO departments, with an immediate focus on the Human Resources and Recruitment domains, Communication and Real estate for SG (IMMO). Operating within an international, multicultural banking environment, this role bridges the gap between complex business requirements and modern, enterprise-grade cloud ecosystems.

You will lead the enterprise architecture framework across infrastructure, application, and data layers . Your primary mission is to transform disparate systems into unified product suites, enforce data management standards, and aggressively eliminate shadow IT to optimize run costs and ensure cross-functional compliance .

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Architectural Governance: Oversee and guide the architectural evolution of HRCO, COMM and IMMO, ensuring absolute alignment with enterprise standards, data strategies, and cloud governance principles.
• Target Architecture Blueprinting: Define stable, scalable, and cross-functionally consistent architectures while mapping out realistic transition paths from legacy infrastructure on HRCO, COMM and IMMO perimeters.
• Product Suite Envisioning: Shift from isolated applications to a product-centric model, establishing long-term architecture strategies that group capabilities into cohesive, scalable product suites.
• Domain Architectural Oversight: Lead the technical and solution-level design for HR core platforms, talent management, and automated acquisition ecosystems.
• Vendor & SaaS Evaluation: Structure and run rigorous technical evaluations of third-party SaaS and software vendor offerings against established architectural pillars.
• Landscape Rationalization: Drive modernization and simplification initiatives across HRCO systems to actively replace vulnerable End-User Computing (EUC) tools and eliminate shadow IT.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure absolute alignment of HRCO architectures with Group enterprise architecture standards, data governance mandates, and IT roadmaps.
• Project Architecture Guidance: Support development and implementation projects end-to-end by validating architectural evolution scenarios across functional, data, and technical layers.
• Technical Asset Custodianship: Maintain and monitor the HRCO, COMM & IMMO technical asset inventory, ensuring proper documentation, architecture files, and control frameworks.
• Governance Liaison: Act as the key architectural liaison between HRCO, COMM & IMMO business stakeholders, IT engineering teams, data office leads, and central architecture governance bodies

Candidate shall be a bachelors / masters in Computer Science from a reputed institute with 12-18 years of experience

         Oracle HR & Cloud Talent Ecosystems

• Oracle HR Suite Mastery: Deep hands-on solution architecture experience with Oracle HR Cloud ecosystems, specifically Oracle HR Talent Suite and Oracle Recruitment Cloud (ORC).
• Enterprise SaaS Integration: Expert knowledge of Oracle cloud architecture patterns, data exchange protocols, automated onboarding syncs, and secure API bindings with legacy systems.

• Legacy Decommissioning: Proven experience migrating data and workflows away from decentralized spreadsheets, local Access databases, and informal shadow IT setups into secure, vendor-backed architectures.

  Multi-Pillar Architecture Assessment

• Pillar-Based Evaluation: Advanced capability to assess complex market solutions based on core enterprise pillars: Cost Optimization (ROI/Run-cost), Reliability (SLA/HA/DR), Security, and Scalability .
• Frugal Design & FinOps: Proven ability to identify architecture redundancies, analyze hidden SaaS licensing penalties, and enforce cost-efficient computing structures (Technical-... p. 1).

• Target-State Modeling: High-quality capability to model current-state versus target-state configurations using industry-standard tools .

  Data Platforms & Data Management

• Data Platform Literacy: Strong operational understanding of modern data fabric, data warehousing, and lakehouse platforms utilized for enterprise-wide HR analytics.

• Data Governance & Privacy: Robust mastery of data management principles, including master data management (MDM), lineage mapping, data quality controls, and strict compliance regarding PII (Personally Identifiable Information).

  Technical Governance & Problem Solving

• Technical Authority: Strong technology mastery within the domain to confidently lead deeply technical design reviews and guide executive-level strategic debates.

• Incident Investigation: Advanced capabilities in complex incident investigation to assess, diagnose, and resolve critical platform errors and system anomalies.

  Behavioral Skills

• Proactive communication that is clear, concise, and adaptive to multicultural audiences.
• Technical discussion facilitation to identify challenges, resolve deadlocks, and share innovative ideas with peers.
• Collaborative mindset that operates independently while acting in the bank's best interest. Challenges business and IT business propositions.
• Strong synthesis skills to listen effectively, simplify complex topics, and positively engage stakeholders.
• Continuous benchmarking driven by curiosity about external marketplace trends.
• Language proficiency Professional proficiency in English is required; knowledge of French is highly preferable.