Architect Analyst

Architect Analyst

Reporting To: Matrix Reporting To Head, Strategy & IT Architecture

Location: Kuala Lumpur

Important Skills: Banking IT Architecture Analysis

Candidates with legal right to work in Malaysia can apply(Citizen PR)

Job Purpose:

 To assist in governing Strategy & IT Architecture to ensure timely delivery of services in

an effective, and efficient manner.

 To assist in planning and strategizing architecture’s goals.

 To track action items, architecture debts, architecture decisions, architecture forum

papers, decision logs and lessons learnt activities to feed into on-going improvements

 To ensure the awareness of architecture governance align to the SDLC and governance

processes.

 To create awareness of architecture governance guidelines.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & OUTCOMES

Planning the goals of the team

 Work with the stakeholders within the team to identify and defined their goals.

Running architecture governance forums,

 Ensure that governance forums are conducted on a regular basis to deliberate on matters that

affect the Strategy & IT Architecture

 Ensure that all decisions made are recorded and documented accordingly.

 Ensure that all decisions made in the governance forums are executed

Planning and budgeting

 Plan and budget for the team for one year and utilize the budget accordingly

Improve quality of architecture review submission papers

Ensure the quality of papers for the architecture review forums

Application Life Cycle Management

 Improv application data quality via the annual data quality review process for the domain

 Perform re-assessment of the application obsolescence, duplication and future readiness along with business alignment.

 Potential sunset of applications within the domain

Infrastructure Life Cycle Management

 Improve infrastructure data quality via the annual data quality review process for the domain

 Perform re-assessment of the infrastructure along with stakeholders.

 Potential sunset of infrastructure devices

Competencies and Skills

 A solid track record within a good size financial service provider/ bank, preferably within

the ASEAN region

 At least 1 year of experience with significant experience in leading and managing large scale

technology environments.

 Ability to lead and educate team members, champion and manage change, as well as

communicate proactively with all stakeholders

 Must have strong interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to manoeuvre within the

political and cultural constructs of the Bank.

 Good problem-solving and analytical skills, able to determine the approximate impact of

each issue quickly to prioritize further work

 Strong influencing skills and ability to positively and sensitively work with stakeholders

 Relationship Management skills, ability to build and create a strong internal network

across levels and disciplines in Maybank

 Sound decision-making skills

 Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)

 Highly effective planning and prioritization skills

 The ability to lead cross-functional teams in defining architectural solutions

 Able to articulate and visualized architecture concepts using power point slides