Scope Overview

The Digital Architect (AEC) serves as a principal strategic advisor to senior management, providing enterprise-level governance and steering the alignment of business objectives with technological investments across subsidiaries.

This role establishes regional architecture standards and frameworks, overseeing the convergence of enterprise strategy, process optimization, and scalable technology. Acting as the authority on business capability models and technical solution reviews, the Architect perform M&A Due Diligence, post-deal integration strategies, on top of cross-border architectural compliance, ensuring all regional systems and acquired entities natively integrate with MUFG and Krungsri principles.

What you'll do

Business Architecture Governance & Strategy

• Strategic Oversight: Provide executive guidance to senior stakeholders on translating regional business strategy into standardized capability models and long-term architectural roadmaps.

• Artifact Governance: Govern and review business architecture artifacts (e.g., capability maps, value streams) to ensure regional alignment with overarching enterprise standards.

• Process Consultation: Consult on the definition of target operating models and organizational processes, ensuring regional transformation initiatives adhere to the broader enterprise vision.

• Requirement Validation: Review and validate complex business requirements and user journeys to guarantee architectural traceability to strategic business objectives.

• Readiness Steering: Steer organizational readiness evaluations and advise regional leadership on the architectural implications, risks, and synergies of major business shifts.

• Regional Business Capability Governance: Own and govern regional business capability models to ensure consistency and strategic alignment across AEC entities.

• Strategy‑to‑Capability Alignment: Translate business strategies into clear target‑state capability roadmaps that guide transformation and integration priorities.

• Capability‑Based Investment & Prioritization: Ensure investments are driven by business capabilities, with clear traceability from strategic objectives to enabling solutions.

• Operating Model & Value Stream Alignment: Align target operating models, value streams, and end‑to‑end processes with the future‑state capability architecture.

• Capability Readiness & Maturity Oversight: Assess capability readiness, maturity, and risk to support executive decision‑making and M&A integration.

Technical Architecture Review & Assurance

• Design Approval: Evaluate and approve scalable, high-availability technical designs proposed by regional delivery teams, ensuring adherence to approved enterprise technology stacks and modern architecture patterns.

• Integration Governance: Govern integration architectures across the AEC region, mandating robust API management, API gateway strategies, and secure service-to-service communication standards.

• Resiliency Consulting: Consult on and review cloud-native deployment topologies and system observability frameworks, guaranteeing cross-border application resilience and performance transparency.

• Security Enforcement: Enforce enterprise security, centralized secret management, and data sovereignty compliance policies for all regional applications and cross-border data flows.

• Standard Leverage: Identify opportunities to leverage standard design / solution between subsidiaries and KS.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Regional Integration Advisory

• Due Diligence (DD) Oversight: Review scope and architecture assessments for prospective targets. Critically evaluate target technology stacks, digital channels, API readiness, and innovation capabilities against enterprise standards.

• M&A Advisory: Provide executive debriefs and definitive architectural rulings in DD reports, advising the M&A steering committee on technical debt, integration risks, and technological capabilities. Maintain and optimize the standard frameworks and templates for digital assessments.

• Integration Governance (Post-Deal): Define the architectural blueprints and technical mandates for integrating newly acquired entities into the KS Group ecosystem.

• Impact Review: Review and validate integration impact assessments provided by delivery teams, ensuring that proposed development efforts are structurally sound and align with enterprise integration patterns.

• Post-Deal Advisory (BAU): Serve as the principal architectural consultant for KS partners and MUFG entities regarding digital solutions, actively championing cross-group technology reuse, platform sharing, and continuous architectural improvement.

Apply now if you have these advantages

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (preferred) in Business Administration (MBA), Information System, Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance or related field.
• 7+ years of solid, demonstrable experience in the financial services sector or financial services consulting sector, with a focus on enterprise-scale environments.
• 3+ years of experience operating in an enterprise architecture, governance, or strategic advisory role, bridging both Business Architecture and Technical/Solution Architecture domains.

• Enterprise & Business Architecture: Knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIAN) and banking domain standards (e.g., ISO-20022, Open Banking).

• Integration & API Strategy: Understanding of API-led connectivity, enterprise API Gateways, connection pool management, and microservices communication patterns.

• Cloud-Native & Infrastructure: Knowledge of container orchestration platforms, network configurations, and hybrid-cloud deployment topologies.

• Enterprise Security & Compliance: Understanding of Zero-Trust architecture, centralized secrets management, identity access management (IAM), and cross-border data privacy regulations.

• Observability & Performance Governance: Knowledge of enterprise application performance monitoring (APM) and full-stack observability platforms to establish standards for system health, telemetry, and issue resolution across regional entities.

• Architectural Governance & Review: Ability to evaluate, critique, and approve technical designs and business requirement documents submitted by regional delivery teams or vendors.

• Technical Assessment: Skill in reviewing multi-disciplinary tech stacks to assess whether a target entity's architecture is viable for enterprise integration.

• Strategic Translation: Capability to translate business expansion strategies into technology roadmaps, capability models, and technical integration mandates.

• Due Diligence Execution: Ability to assess a target company's digital maturity, identify security vulnerabilities, evaluate technical debt, and synthesize findings into advisory reports.

• Cross-Cultural Stakeholder Management: Facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills required to drive architectural consensus across regional teams, Krungsri subsidiaries, and MUFG partners.

• Analytical Problem Solving: Analytical skills to map dependencies between business processes and legacy IT systems during post-deal integrations.

• Good in English skill both written and speaking is a MUST.
• Must be able to undertake short-term overseas assignments (approximately 3–6 months) to support critical programs or platform replacement initiatives at subsidiary locations.

Why join Krungsri?

• As a part of MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group), we a truly a global bank with networks all over the world.
• We offer a striking work-life balance culture with hybrid work policies (3 days in office per week).
• Unbelievable benefits such as attractive bonuses, employee loan with special rates and many more.

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