Head, Enterprise Architecture

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Hatch Asia has been appointed as the exclusive executive search partner for one of our global clients within the financial services space to help identify a Head, Enterprise Architecture for their technology function in Kuala Lumpur. This is a global role and will play a crucial role in shaping the organization’s technology strategy moving forward.

The Challenges

• Co-develop company enterprise digital blueprint and architecture which encompasses vision, strategies, and plans for growth through evaluation and analysis of target solutions, creation of solution models that integrates between businesses and customers, leading the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships, identification of new opportunities for growth and maintenance of digital technology strategic plan so as to ensure alignment between the organization and it’s overall business objectives.
• Develop together with functions within the organization both short- and long-term digital and technological solutions through assessment of current and anticipating business needs. conduct wide enterprise research, benchmark and provide responses against business pain-points which are related to technology assets ranging from servers to application development, collaborate with business and technology solution providers, to help determine relevant solutions for the organization, which will enable the firm to achieve it’s business goals.
• Conduct an effective assessment of the digital portfolio of the current and emerging digital landscape, identify potential disruptive changes and technologies that could potentially impact the organizations performance and business operations. Steer the implementation of risk assurance on digital portfolios including future investment, identification and recommendation of relevant technologies for adoption an the evaluation of successful adoption of potential solutions which are business-critical.
• Lead efforts in setting up, managing and scaling up the ideation methodology across the organization by establishing design thinking workshops, and running innovation labs which will assist the organization in building out innovative solutions for the business.
• Integration architecture design and maintenance will be a crucial component to this role, where focus will lie in minimizing operational downtime and ensuring performance of integration and transaction processing speed are always at optimal performance.
  
  
  

What It Takes

• 13-15 years working experience preferable in technology relative to industry; 7-10 years of working experience in an enterprise architecture or solution design position within a fast-paced and fast-evolving environment, preferably working as an IT Transformation/Digital/IT Strategy/Enterprise Architecture senior level role.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Services and Consulting, would be a major advantage.
  
  
  

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Employment Agency No: 11C5794