Technical Architect

Job Title: Technical Architect

Role Summary

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, owning, and governing the end-to-end architecture blueprint of an in-house, cloud-native enterprise system undergoing modernization. The role establishes the technical foundation of the new platform, ensures scalability, security, and audit readiness, and enables data-driven and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate. The role also provides limited, time-bound architectural guidance to the legacy platform to ensure operational continuity during transition.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, draw, and maintain the end-to-end architecture blueprint, covering:
• Application and service architecture
• Data, integration, and event flows
• Security, access control, and compliance design
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment model
• Design scalable, secure, and modular solutions using public cloud services, primarily on Google Cloud Platform, across:
• Application and compute
• Data and analytics
• Integration and messaging
• Security and identity
• Networking and observability
• AI and machine learning
• Select appropriate cloud services based on business requirements, risk, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Define architectural patterns for API-driven, event-based, and microservice-oriented systems.
• Establish the data and AI architecture, enabling analytics and AI-assisted capabilities using cloud-native data and AI/ML services where applicable.
• Ensure AI-enabled components follow governance, explainability, security, and auditability requirements, with clear separation from rule-based logic.
• Provide architectural direction, standards, and technical guardrails to development and DevOps teams.
• Review and approve solution designs, major technical decisions, and implementation approaches.
• Ensure the platform supports logging, monitoring, resiliency, data integrity, and future expansion.
• Provide limited architectural support to the legacy platform, focusing on stability, risk reduction, and transition readiness.
• Act as the primary technical authority during the platform foundation and modernization phase.
  
  

• 6–10+ years of experience in solution or system architecture.
• Strong experience designing enterprise, cloud-native platforms.
• Proven background in:
• Distributed systems and microservices
• API and integration architecture
• Security and data governance
• Experience with public cloud platforms and managed services.
• Solid understanding of data platforms and AI/ML integration patterns.
• Experience supporting legacy systems during modernization initiatives.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  
  

• Google Cloud Platform experience is preferred.
• Strong equivalent experience in AWS or Azure is acceptable, provided the candidate demonstrates the ability to adapt and design effectively on Google Cloud.
  
  

• Experience in regulated, mission-critical, or large-scale enterprise systems.
• Experience designing data-driven or AI-enabled platforms.
• Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure architecture certifications.
• Willing to work onsite at our Ortigas Center office and comfortable with UK time hours