Total 2 solution architect job vacancies in Art / Design / Entertainment category in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

As the Chief Solution Architect, your leadership is integral in driving the strategic development and implementation of cutting-edge ICT solutions tailored to meet our clients' core business needs. Your key role involves leading cross-technology domain teams in crafting innovative solutions that align with the dynamic requirements of digital transformation. Additionally, you will play a crucial part in refining high-caliber technical proposals for major tenders and projects, ensuring alignment with client specifications and organizational benchmarks.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning & Execution: Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance operational efficiency and achieve business goals for our clients.

• Solution Design Leadership: Drive the creation of sophisticated solutions that address complex business challenges and leverage advanced technologies.

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to solution consultants and teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

• Leading Tender Bids: Spearhead the task force in bidding for significant tenders and projects, ensuring the delivery of winning technical proposals.

• Innovation & Technology Evaluation: Drive innovation by staying updated on industry trends, evaluating new technologies, and enhancing existing solutions.

• Quality Assurance & Risk Management: Ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions by implementing best practices, standards, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives for continuous enhancement within the solution architecture domain, optimizing processes and performance.

• Vendor Engagement & Partnership: Collaborate with external vendors and partners to evaluate technologies, negotiate terms, and ensure successful solution delivery.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster collaboration with various departments for seamless solution integration and alignment with organizational objectives.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of demonstrated expertise in solution architecture with leadership experience.

• Profound proficiency in formulating and deploying intricate solutions leveraging cloud technologies, Enterprise Networking, CyberSecurity, and data analytics.

• Exceptional communication, presentation and leadership skills with a proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive technical initiatives effectively.

Technical skills/Certifications Requirements: Cloud technologies Enterprise Networking CyberSecurity and data analytics.

Other Requirements: Exceptional communication presentation and leadership skills

*** Must have ***
 - Must possess excellent presentation skills and be well-organized in project management
 - Must handle middle to large project
 - Will be responsible for leading a project team to implement and showcase high-quality ICT solutions for our clients
 - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
 - Minimum of 10 years of demonstrated expertise in solution architecture with leadership experience.

- Must has good exposure in presales with multiple technical domains.
- The last job must 90% work in presales
- Must fluent Cantonese and EnglishNot suitable if the candidates have rich experiences with project delivery (particularly on data center projects).

 - Health Insurance
 - Performance bonus
 - Birthday leave
 - Marriage leave
 - Training sponsorship
 - Annual body check

Wati is a rapidly growing CPaaS (Communication Platform as a Service) that offers innovative business messaging solutions for both SMBs and large enterprises. Our mission is to simplify business communication, starting with WhatsApp. Backed by global investors Sequoia, DST Global, and Tiger Global, we proudly stand as Shopify’s first investment in Asia. Additionally, we’re one of the industry's top Meta BSPs (Business Solution Providers).

We serve 8000+ customers across 100+ countries. As a remote-first company, we prioritise adaptability and inclusivity. Our talented team spans the globe, working collaboratively to drive innovation and empower businesses through WhatsApp.

We are seeking a Senior Architect to join our R&D team in Hong Kong or China. This role is crucial for driving our product development, designing scalable solutions, and ensuring the highest standards of performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in architecture design, a deep understanding of communication technologies, and a passion for innovation.

Responsibilities

1. Diagnose product issues and drive architectural improvements and implementations.

2. Optimize service performance within a cloud-native architecture, focusing on middleware, databases, and application systems.

3. Design and architect large-scale distributed systems, such as:

• Databases capable of storing billions of messages
• Systems ensuring low latency message delivery (e.g., 100-1000 messages per second)

4. Develop an enterprise service performance optimization system leveraging cloud technologies.

5. Participate in technical operations and drive product iterations.

1. Bachelor’s degree or above in a computer-related field with more than 8 years of software development experience.

2. Proficient in MySQL and MongoDB.

3. Familiar with other relational databases such as DM and PG, and NoSQL databases like Redis; able to choose the appropriate database for different scenarios.

4. Skilled in using performance analysis and debugging tools to identify and analyze application service performance bottlenecks efficiently.

5. Proficient in programming languages such as Java, C#, or Go; solid understanding of computer theory and experience in virtual machine tuning.

6. Knowledgeable about middleware such as Redis, MySQL, ZooKeeper, Kafka, ELK, etc.

7. Experienced in various design patterns and leading the development of large-scale distributed backend services, including strategies for current limiting, disaster recovery, and downgrading.

8. Practical experience and optimization skills in microservice architecture within large-scale cloud environments.

9. Familiarity with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes.

10. Understanding of network protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP.

11. Preferably has experience with Instant Messaging (IM) systems, including design, development, and maintenance.