Solution Architect

Company Description
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Cathay Pacific (Shenzhen) Information Technology Management Limited
Cathay is a leading premium travel lifestyle brand based in Hong Kong, offering products and services across four lines of business – Premium Travel, Cargo, Low-Cost Travel and Lifestyle. The Cathay Group comprises premium full-service airline Cathay Pacific, cargo business Cathay Cargo, low-cost airline HK Express, express all-cargo carrier Air Hong Kong, and various other subsidiaries.

At Cathay, we are committed to moving people forward in life — whether through travel experience, lifestyle products or career growth. Being part of Cathay is more than just a job, it's a meaningful career journey toward realising your ambitions. Your skills will become a bridge that connects the world, opening up infinite possibilities along our customers' life journeys. If you are seeking an opportunity to take flight, let your ambitions propel you higher and further.

Make Your Career Move, together with Cathay.

Notes:

• All Chinese mainland based positions are subject to local terms and conditions.

Role Introduction

The Solution Architect is responsible for developing and governing fit-for-purpose solution designs that address the business requirements and align to the architecture strategies, roadmaps and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive to develop and analyse solution options based on business demand, enterprise architecture and balanced comparison of functional capabilities, non-functional capabilities, risk, cost and benefits
• Nurture a deep understanding of the solution architecture, translate business process, information entities and systems solutions into accurate, easily understandable architectural diagrams or viewpoints
• Gather, understand and synthesize documentation available from vendors, SMEs, systems, product managers and business analysts to be able to extract right information and transform it into different architectural diagrams or viewpoints
• Cross-team collaboration with application and infrastructure teams on the conceptual designs and solution designs for project delivery. Analyse enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as project-specific requirements to guide solution architecture by leveraging all aspects (e.g. business, information and technology infrastructure) of enterprise architecture.
• Construct and promote application / infrastructure development and deployment standards and guidelines.
• Cross-team collaboration with other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, developers and key stakeholders to harmonise systems or infrastructure with the enterprise architecture. Drive discussions among Architects and key stakeholders to agree on the solution architecture. Communicate a clear vision of how the technology can be optimally applied to products and services
• Cross-team collaboration with the delivery teams and the technical leads to come up with the technology strategy and for the applications
• Proactively anticipate and act upon issues that arise, provides alternative approaches, optimal solution and continuously improving performance of applications
• Accountable for ensuring solution architecture design work is documented in a structured fashion matching the Cathay IT practice framework. Facilitate sharing of the artefacts to drive reuse.
• Work on prototypes and concepts for new technologies and ideas with little or no guidance
• Drive to support continuous improvement of standard Cathay IT Practices
• Be able to communicate to any IT role using their vocabulary effectively
• Mentor the development team and promote ideas for useful technologies and methodologies
• Keep abreast of latest trends in technology, industry and corresponding business domain

Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
• For a Solution Architect a minimum 7 years of IT experience with at least 4 years hands-on project solution architecture experience
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environment
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
• Significant practical experience or good understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF
• Advanced expertise in SDLC – Agile and DevOps is beneficial
• Must be well organized, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude
• Effective verbal and written communication skill
• Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of stakeholders
• Airline knowledge is beneficial
• Experience on managing integrated solutions with applications between mainland China and overseas is an advantage

Personal & Application Information

Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our Applicant Personal Information Collection Statement and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. We keep records of your data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them and any other permitted linked purposes. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your details on file for as long as is necessary to process your application or for the purposes of further job opportunities if you agree to such longer periods.