Enterprise Architect (Cross‑Functional Life Insurance)

Job Description

Our client is a leading international financial services organisation with a strong presence in Asia-Pacific. The technology function plays a central role in enabling digital transformation across business lines, with a strong focus on security, scalability, and modern engineering practices. They are currently looking to hire a life insurance specialized technical leader to provide enterprise and solution architecture leadership across their insurance platforms and digital capabilities. Key Responsibilities • Provide enterprise and solution architecture leadership across insurance platforms and services, defining clear architectural direction and ensuring alignment between business strategy and technology execution • Develop and articulate end‑to‑end solution designs, producing architecture proposals that balance business outcomes, regulatory requirements, security, and operational resilience • Partner closely with senior stakeholders across business, product, architecture, and engineering to drive consensus and decision‑making on complex technology initiatives • Define target‑state and transition architectures for insurance core platforms, digital channels, and shared services, ensuring long‑term scalability and maintainability • Lead architecture strategy for foundational and enterprise platforms, with a forward‑looking view of technology evolution, industry trends, and InsurTech innovation • Act as a domain architect for Insurance, applying strong understanding of insurance operating models and distribution channels, including bancassurance, agency, broker, and third‑party partnerships • Own and maintain architecture standards, principles, and roadmaps for insurance capabilities within the Hong Kong market, ensuring consistency with group architecture governance • Design secure, resilient, and cloud‑native solutions, leveraging modern platforms and services while ensuring compliance with internal and external controls • Provide hands‑on design oversight and guidance to delivery teams, reviewing technical designs and ensuring solutions meet both functional and non‑functional requirements • Translate complex technical architectures into clear, business‑focused narratives, enabling non‑technical stakeholders to make informed decisions • Take accountability for architecture outcomes from early ideation through delivery and post‑production, ensuring solutions can be efficiently operated, evolved, and supported over time Show More