Company:
Sopra Steria is a listed European tech leader specializes in Consulting, Digital Service, and Software. We have 60,000 employees worldwide located in different regions (Europe, North America and Asia), whereby Singapore is the HQ for APAC. EvaGroup Asia Pacific is part of Sopra Steria I2S APAC, in charge of Infrastructure, Cloud and Cybersecurity services.
Description:
The successful candidate will be in charge of all architecture topics around the Cloud and traditional infrastructure across Asia Pacific and more specifically:
- Compute and Storage
- Database and Middleware
- Private Cloud and Public Cloud Infrastructure
Role and responsibilities:
- Collaborate with manager and the teams to design, develop and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for deploying the services linked to the perimeter
- Ensure that proposed and existing infrastructure architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives
- Work closely with internal clients to understand their needs and propose solutions that fit into the group strategies
- Maintain a positive relationship with stakeholders and partners
- Steer the implementation of the Private Cloud service portfolio in ASIA
- Drive the deployment of the Public Cloud enablers in ASIA according to the global standards
- Work closely with global product factories on the product strategy and vision, and give feedback on the content and prioritization
- Ensure that proposed and existing infrastructure architecture is aligned with organizational goals and objectives
- Build Proof of Concept
- Maintain the architecture documentation library up-to-date
- Manage key transformation or integration projects
- Represent ASIA at the various architecture committees and global EXCO
- Contribute to the construction and optimization of the product budget
- Stay abreast of developments in technologies used by the teams and up to date on industry practices
Required skills:
- University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent with a post graduate degree being advantageous
- Strong knowledge in Infrastructure services: Compute / Operating Systems / Storage / Backup
- Strong knowledge in Platform services: Database, Messaging and Container technologies
- Good knowledge in Network and Datacenter urbanization
- Good knowledge in Public Cloud providers and their services (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Expertise in designing design patterns, data structures, CICD architecture, agile development.
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
- Autonomous and resourceful
- Experience in establishing strong and long-term relationship with internal partners
- Excellent presentation skills. Able to address to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior decision makers
- Excellent communication (written and verbal). Fluent in English
- Broad understanding of Infrastructure services, operational risks and management methodologies
- Financial services or FinTech experience is preferred
