Lead Architect

2 weeks ago


Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China Octopus Holdings Limited Full time
Born from Hong Kong's demand for fast, convenient, and reliable payment solutions, Octopus introduced the world's first contactless multi-modal transit payment system in 1997. Since then, this homegrown FinTech company has pioneered innovative payment solutions for urban living across four continents. Our Vision To become the most preferred payment and lifestyle companion that connects customers and business partners through our best-in-class products and services. Our Mission Making everyday life easier. Our Values Customer Centricity, Simplicity & Trustworthiness. Dedicated to addressing customer needs and adapting to evolving market trends, Octopus has broadened its services beyond transportation to encompass retail, e-commerce, cross-border transactions, and travel abroad. Today, we serve approximately 98% of Hong Kong’s population, processing around 15 million transactions at more than HK$300 million on average daily. At the heart of our success are our colleagues. We value mutual respect, foster collaboration, and encourage innovation and partnership. Join us and shape the future of payment solutions. Your impact starts here

Job Responsibilities: 

Strategy Development

  • Lead transport application team to define technical and application solutions architectural strategies, roadmap, and designs for transport business 
  • Explore latest use of technology partners to seek ways to improve the team’s delivery, and Octopus experience in transport.

People Management

  • Coach both local and overseas team to liaise and negotiate with stakeholders and customers on fit-for-purpose and state-of-art architectural design, proof of concepts, development, software testing and support IT operations
  • Lead team for solutions’ performance tuning, change management, support transport business application development and get acceptance from the clients
  • Assign work to technical personnel or suppliers, if necessary
  • Coach, train and develop technical personnel to keel knowledge of core technology
  • Contribute to knowledge management
  • Enforce compliance of policies and procedures

Product Realisation

  • Fulfill business needs by providing strategic architectural advice and implementation
  • Provide technical knowledge for product realisation activities
  • Provides subject matter expertise to identify and translate clients’ business needs into high quality data architecture design
  • Promote, make decisions on, review, enhance and enforce architectural related development standards and processes
  • Develop architectural strategy, prototyping in various applications, database and infrastructure re-engineering technologies
  • Ensures the development of internal and external, client-oriented documentation and respective evolution into recommended workable solutions are in goof quality
  • Advise Senior management to approve or reject purchases, expenses and contracts

Knowledge Management

  • Implement, maintain and improve product relalisation methodologies
  • Knowledge sharing within the organization to retain knowledge for reuse to enhance quality, profitability and market share

Job Requirements:

  • University Degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent
  • Minimum 15 years of experience in IT industry with focus on enterprise architecture governance and development
  • Good knowledge in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Java, and Mobile development and the relevant tool sets in the industries
  • Familiar with the technical features of government public transport fare subsidy scheme 
  • A highly seasoned senior technocrat experience working in multiple projects through the software development process or System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and has performed a variety of different roles in that life cycle
  • Certification on one of the Enterprise Architecture Practices e.g. TOGAF
  • Knowledge in contemporary enterprise architecture including data, system application, mobile and web
  • Track records in creation of IT Architectural models and their low-level components to address business improvement inactivates
  • Track record in delivering and implementing a digital architecture roadmap
  • Good team player with strong analytical and trouble shooting skills
  • Effective communication skills in both verbal and written English

We offer successful candidate an attractive remuneration package and excellent career prospects. Interested parties please send your resume, present and expected salary, contact details and quoting the reference number by clicking "Apply Now"

Visit our web site: http://www.octopus.com.hk/

The personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. If you are not contacted by us within six weeks, you may consider your application unsuccessful. Personal data with an unsuccessful applicant will be destroyed 12 months after rejection of the application. During this retention period, you have the right to request for correction or destruction of your personal data at any time. Any request for the correction or destruction of personal data should be addressed in writing to our Human Resources & Administration Department.

We are an equal opportunity employer and will ensure that every job applicant and staff has equal employment opportunities and will not be disadvantaged because of their sex, pregnancy, marital status, family status, disability or race.





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