Solution Architect Lead

Job Summary

The Chief Architect for SCV Tech is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and driving the architectural direction for SCV's technology ecosystem. This position ensures alignment with Group ESA, promotes innovation through emerging technologies, and provides architectural expertise to support venture building, Proof of Concepts and special projects. The role involves active collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Architects, Security leaders, and Venture stakeholders, to deliver scalable, secure, performance and innovative technology solutions

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Business

• Governance and Architecture Design: Lead domain architecture design, ensuring alignment with Group Enterprise Architecture standards and exercising governance authority to maintain compliance.
• Enterprise Architecture Leadership: SCV Architecture delegated authority on the Group Enterprise Architecture Board, collaborating with key stakeholders to enhance security controls and architectural frameworks.
• Innovation & Research: Drive adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML, blockchain, serverless, edge computing) to develop scalable, cloud-native solutions for SC Ventures.
• Venture Alignment: Conduct Architecture Reviews (eg AWS Well-Architected Review) and facilitate solution design checkpoints to align venture strategies with enterprise blueprints.

Long Description

• Technology Controls and SOPs: Oversee architecture controls and SOPs for Proof of Concepts (and special projects to ensure structured execution.
• Reusable Architecture Patterns Development: Design and document reusable templates for CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, containers, serverless architectures, and AI/ML integrations.
• Onboarding Tech Assessments and Security Framework: Oversee the technology asset lifecycle for SCV Platform Applications and maintain a Technology Standard Catalogue of onboarded/supported applications across SCV and ventures. Oversee the evolution of the Security Toolkit Framework (STK), ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards.
• Proactive Optimization: Continuously improve architecture processes by identifying inefficiencies, recommending enhancements, and implementing mechanisms for proactive issue resolution.
• Resource Management: Manage a team of Architects, Security Architects and/or partner vendor resources as subject-matter experts (SMEs) or fractional tech contributors for venture building and PoC activities.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: On cloud-native best practices, multi-cloud strategies, and emerging technologies through innovation sessions and case studies with the team members and ventures.
• Collaboration: Work closely with venture tech leads and their technology teams, SCV Technology team members, Group T&I stakeholders, Cloud support SMEs, and panel vendors to ensure seamless integration of solutions for ventures.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or solution architecture roles within dynamic environments such as startups or organizations with complex technology ecosystems (e.g., financial services or technology innovation hubs).
• Proven experience in designing cloud-native architectures leveraging multi-cloud strategies (AWS/Azure), serverless computing models, AI/ML pipelines, blockchain integrations, and edge computing solutions.

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Enterprise Architecture Expertise: Strong understanding of TOGAF principles or similar frameworks for designing scalable architectures aligned with business objectives.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), container orchestration tools (Kubernetes/Docker), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform/CloudFormation), and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Security Controls & Frameworks: Familiarity with security frameworks like CISV8, ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF/CIS Controls; experience implementing zero-trust architectures or quantum-resistant encryption techniques is a plus.
• AI/ML Integration: Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into scalable cloud infrastructures to enhance automation and decision-making processes

Certifications (Highly Desirable):

• TOGAF Certified Architect or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent multi-cloud certifications
• CISSP or CISM certifications are good to have to demonstrate expertise in security architecture and governance.