Overview
Lead Solution Architect
Date: 19 May 2025
Location:
Singapore, Singapore
Company:
Singtel Group
An empowering career at Singtel begins with a Hello. Our purpose, to Empower Every Generation, connects people to the possibilities they need to excel. Every “hello” at Singtel opens doors to new initiatives, growth, and BIG possibilities that takes your career to new heights. So, when you say hello to us, you are really empowered to say…“Hello BIG Possibilities”.
Be a Part of Something BIG!
We create great technology that can change the future, and we’re looking for people to be part of our digital and 5G journey. If you like to work in a dynamic, leading communications technology group to deliver innovations and excellence across the region, come join our digital, software engineering, data and cyber security teams!.
As an Architect, you will be responsible for challenging the status quo, and bringing innovative and differentiated thinking to everything we do. You will shape cross domain projects while working with business stakeholders and providing solutions using and assessing emerging technologies.
Apply now, and ignite our digital future together.
Make an Impact by
- Understands business functions and transform requirements into architecture and blueprint for the solution being created. Need to propose new innovative solutions, updates to existing solutions, negotiate alternative options, build technical and release roadmaps.
- Construct a solution architecture around Microservices and APIs, and be able to decompose monolith applications into meaningful implementable Microservices and APIs in a Cloud/DevOps environment
- Work closely with the development team and get their buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented. Also, work with different stake holders, product owner, senior executives, external parties like system integrators, product partners.
- Provide technology perspective to business to achieve roadmap and prioritization by keeping abreast with industry trends. Where required, help business size the complexity of problem and help simplify and define MVP
- Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the development project
- Understand and comply with Information Security standards, methodologies and practices.
- Trouble-shoot technical problems faced by the project team
- Contribution to organizational development thru sharing best practices. Developing and conducting technical courses.
- Mentor and coach junior architects, developers & tester.
Skills for Success
- Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or its equivalent
- 10+ years of experience in the technology industry including 4+ in architecture of scalable and high-performance internet facing systems. Experience in payment industry will be value add.
- Possess strong background and experience as a successful Software engineer/Architect in building large scale, highly available Internet and mobile applications.
- Have in depth knowledge of cloud computing, microservices architecture (incl. design pattern, rest/grpc, gateway & service mesh etc.), DevOps, Streaming architecture, Modern data architecture, Mobile and Web application architecture
- Good experience in API security including OAuth2/OIDC, Tokens, mTLS etc.
- Significant experience working on mission critical internet facing applications focusing on scalability, performance, architecture aspects.
- Experience in payment or telco billing related system is good to have.
- Passion for architecture and ability to pick up and learn new technological advances very quickly
- Good working experience in Java, Spring , Spring boot, any modern messaging technology, any RDBMS and/or NoSQL
- Practical knowledge in Agile and DevOps environments, open source technologies and related tools.
- Exhibits leadership in guiding team members, adapts to changes in technology and business domains, has good knowledge of latest trends in the market and is well respected within the team
- Solid understanding of Public Cloud (pref. AWS) architecture. AWS certification is a big plus.
- Ability to effectively communicate vision and roadmap to all stakeholders. Exceptional communication skills with diverse audiences (including non-technical audiences)
Rewards that Go Beyond
- Flexi work arrangements
- Full suite of health and wellness benefits
- Ongoing training and development programs
- Internal mobility opportunities
Your Career Growth Starts Here. Apply Now!
Are you ready to say hello to BIG Possibilities?
Take the leap with Singtel to unlock new opportunities and accelerate your growth.
Apply now and start your empowering career!
About Singtel
Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel has 140 years of operating experience and played a pivotal role in the country’s development as a major communications hub. Optus, our subsidiary in Australia, is a leader in integrated telecommunications, constantly raising the bar in innovative products and services.
We are also strategically invested in leading companies in Asia and Africa, including Bharti Airtel (India, South Asia and Africa), Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines) and Advanced Info Service (Thailand). We work closely with our associates, leveraging our scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience to lead and shape the communications industry.
Together, the Group serves over 700 million mobile customers around world. Singtel is one of the largest listed Singapore companies on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation.
The Group has a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA, and employs more than 23,000 staff worldwide.