About the Role:
The role is based in Port Moresby and reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture. The successful incumbent is responsible for technical leadership in the development, operation, and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving our client’s constituents. This role requires collaboration with business SMEs, product owners, and leadership to understand and influence business requirements, alongside leading business discussions and technical strategy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in digital banking, new technologies, and modern cloud technologies, particularly Azure.
Key Deliverables:
- Provide technical leadership in developing and operating digital services, driving transformational initiatives.
- Collaborate with business SMEs, product owners, and leadership to understand and influence business requirements and capabilities.
- Engage in business discussions, facilitating the generation of standard business requirements, process documents, and data flows.
- Create architectural analyses and documents to guide development teams and inform best practices.
- Act as the technical authority in meetings, evaluate technical proposals from external suppliers, and make recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Lead the development of user-driven prototypes, identifying technical options and architectural approaches.
- Present and justify solution architecture designs to product and technology leaders and business stakeholders.
- Work with external vendors to ensure system architectures are robust, scalable, open, and secure.
- Manage and advise on agile delivery projects, supporting agile technical delivery and software architecture.
- Research and prepare technical reports for executive management and manage special technology projects.
- Enhance and foster Architecture Governance Board activities and contribute to the technology strategy.
- Develop reference architectures and influence architecture decisions to meet business needs.
Essential Qualifications, Professional/Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum 8 years’ experience as a Solution or Software Architect, with a strong background in software development and system integration.
- Proven expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), microservices architecture, and distributed computing.
- Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (a plus)
- Proficiency in designing and implementing enterprise-level IT solutions, building/operating data pipelines (ETL, Streaming), healthcare data/regulations.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Familiarity with programming languages (Java, Python, C#) and databases (SQL, NoSQL)
- Minimum 6-7 years of progressively responsible work experience in banking, ICT/telecoms, or related industries.
- Certifications in cloud or architecture frameworks (e.g., AWS, TOGAF, Microsoft Azure) are an advantage.