Senior Technical Architecture Lead

• Define target architectures and pragmatic transformation roadmaps aligned with business priorities, Asia and Group IT strategy, enterprise standards and delivery capacity.
• Identify complexity, duplication and technical debt, and drive simplification, standardization, resilience and sustainable cost improvement.
• Lead technical architecture reviews for new initiatives, material changes, modernization programs and business-as-usual evolution across Asia Pacific.
• Assess solution designs against architecture standards, approved patterns, security, resilience, operability, regulatory requirements and delivery constraints.
• Produce clear architecture deliverables covering current and target states, options, recommendations, decisions, risks, dependencies and required actions.
• Define or validate functional, application, data, integration, hosting and technical architectures throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead and contribute to Technical Architecture Committee activities, including review preparation, stakeholder alignment, recommendations, decision support and action tracking.
• Contribute to architecture principles, frameworks, reference architectures, technical standards and reusable blueprints, representing Asia-specific needs in regional and global governance.
• Support standard technology service offerings and drive technology lifecycle, rationalization, obsolescence remediation, migration and decommissioning decisions.
• Review technology introductions, upgrades, experiments and exceptions; assess innovation opportunities and integrate relevant capabilities into regional roadmaps.
• Maintain a consolidated view of material technology changes, risks, dependencies and impacts across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, resilience, support and cost.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud, distributed systems, integration, APIs, data, cybersecurity, observability and modern application architectures.
• Support delivery teams through technical guidance, design and code reviews, build proofs of concept, and resolution of complex design or production issues.
• Promote disciplined architecture documentation, modelling, decision traceability and lifecycle management.
• Build strong partnerships across Asia and Global teams, facilitate cross-domain decisions, and coach technical contributors through influence and knowledge sharing.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, technology or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Substantial experience in technical architecture, solution architecture, engineering or technology transformation in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong experience defining and reviewing medium-to-complex, resilient and highly available solutions across multiple technical and functional domains.
• Practical knowledge of public and private cloud, compute, storage, networking, cybersecurity, containers, databases, data, integration, APIs, hosting and modern application patterns.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, methodologies, modelling techniques, governance, lifecycle management, modernization, technical debt and roadmap development.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems, structure options, articulate trade-offs and propose innovative, sustainable and pragmatic solutions.
• Experience supporting project execution and contributing to complex production-incident analysis.
• Experience working across regional and global teams in a matrix organization. Financial-services experience is preferred.
• Cloud certification, such as Azure or AWS, and/or AI certification is preferred.
• Professional fluency in English is required; French is an advantage for collaboration in the Group international context.

Behavioral Skills

• Innovation - Simplification: I make things & ideas simple
• Client - Client focus: I put long term relationship with our clients at the center of my actions, whatever my position
• Team Spirit - Synergies: I make cooperation with colleagues in and outside my team a priority
• Innovation - Technology: I adopt new technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
• Innovation - Change management: I support change
• Team Spirit - Synergies: I make cooperation with colleagues in and outside my team a priority

HKMA Enhanced Competency Framework (ECF) certification is preferred

Our Culture:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. Please visit our APAC career website: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/building-your-career-with/ for more information.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (De&I):

Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

Check out our DE&I initiatives: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/

Department Description

Provide senior technical architecture leadership for Asia Pacific as an individual contributor. The role defines and supports the technological strategy of the regional Information System in response to business and end-user needs, the Group's technology choices, enterprise standards and market trends. It contributes to the evolution of the enterprise architecture framework across technical, hosting and technology dimensions; shapes coherent target architectures and transformation paths; supports the Group's standard technological service offerings and lifecycle objectives; and ensures that approved capabilities can be adopted effectively by delivery teams. The role leads and contributes to architecture reviews, technical analysis and TAC activities while aligning Asia priorities with Global GBTO and GCOO ARC direction.