Head, Architecture Governance

Position Objective

• Establish architecture governance processes, standards and guidelines, and ensure BUs comply with the architecture governance

• Maintain software development life cycle and ensure BUs comply with software development life cycle

• Maintain group technology standard and ensure BUs fully comply with the standard

• Establish and manage the lifecycle of standard technologies and standard products

• Manage the application portfolio across the Group and ensure information are available on timely manner

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining Architecture Governance Standard

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining Software Development Lifecycle Standard

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining Software Product and Technology Governance Standard

• Responsible for maintaining the application landscape data with quality

• Responsible for execution of the architecture governance in Group level. Ensure BUs comply with Architecture Governance Standard, Software Development Lifecycle Standard, and Software Product and Technology Governance Standard

• Support annual certification of BU compliance to architecture standards and ensuring architecture transformation program is an integral part of the enterprise strategic planning process

• Responsible for managing requests for new standards adoption and exceptions

• Responsible for guiding and assisting the architects in local business unit to set up and manage architecture governance

• Responsible for maintaining the architecture governance repository, standard and templates and ensure the adoption

• Responsible for monitoring the compliance of technology standard through architecture governance process

• Responsible for co-ordinating the product evaluation, standardisation and exception request process to ensure timely assessment and approval

• Responsible for reviewing the product standard regularly to identify old technology to be retired and new technology to be expected

• Responsible for maintaining libraries of standard technologies and standard products and promoting adoption

• Responsible for building and administering the application portfolio management tools

• Responsible for guiding and assisting the architects in local business unit to set up and manage its application portfolio

• Responsible for providing recommendation and tracking the portfolio to eliminate end-of-life and legacy application, and to deliver the modern architecture

• Deliver training through training courses or on-the-job training to local business units with the outcome to promote good architecture practices

• Communicate with vendors the strategy and architecture to ensure that vendors can support AIA Group effectively and efficiently

• Perform other responsibilities and duties periodically assigned by reporting manager in order to meet operational and / or other requirements

Job Requirements

• 15+ years of IT experience with 5+ years as architects, business partner or management consultant in complex international environments in insurance or financial services sector

• Experience in working internationally spanning geographies in Asia.

• Understand the complexities and challenges of the organization, integrated processes, information and technologies in order to develop future-state models to best realize organizational strategies

• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and partner with key internal and external stakeholders

• Knowledge of current trends and innovations in technology and business software applications

• TOGAF certification preferred

• Experience managing senior technical and non-technical stakeholders