Role Introduction
Reports to: Head of Technology and Architecture
Join Cathay as an Enterprise Architect – Data in our Information Technology Department. You will be the one to responsible for providing leadership and vision in developing enterprise data architecture and strategy, defining frameworks, principles and standards, and developing the roadmaps to achieve the vision.
Thrive in a dynamic and agile environment that embraces AI and cutting-edge technologies. Our culture fosters teamwork and progressive thinking, while our internal mobility program offers diverse career opportunities.
Leverage your expertise to oversee architectural excellence in our New Technology Exploration team under the Enterprise Architect solution centre, ensuring we drive our technology strategy and ensure robust, scalable, and secured data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the enterprise data architecture and roadmap definition, including architecture vision, principles, standards and policies, target state blueprints, and roadmap for the relevant data domains
- Work closely and collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to align the enterprise architecture strategy (for all business and technology domains)
- Support the definition and implementation of data governance strategy to support realization of the enterprise data architecture
- Ensure IT solutions are compliant and support existing and future data governance policies
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to drive regular review of data classification and data lifecycle management
- Lead analysis of the current IT environment (database, files, logs, documents) to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
- Actively engage in and contribute to relevant solution design review activities and enterprise architecture governance forums and conduct project technical reviews and health checks
- Support continuous improvement of Cathay IT Standards and Practices
- Mentor solution architects and data engineering team. Promote ideas for using the effective technologies based on analysis of technology industry and spanet trends
Requirements
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
- Minimum 8 years of IT experience with at least 5 years in an architecture or lead solution design related position
- In-depth skills in across the following disciplines:
- Business Intelligence
- Master Data Management
- Enterprise Content Management
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Metadata Management
- Data Lifecycle Management & Data Retention
- Data Modelling
- Data Encryption & File Encryption
- Data masking & test data management
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Good business acumen, with an ability to understand and address business issues
- Excellent breadth of thinking, able to provide pragmatic solutions that consider all relevant constraints whether technical, financial, organizational, risk, or capability based
- Airline knowledge is advantageous
- TOGAF certification is preferred
Personal & Application Information
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