Team Head - Digital Architecture

About BDO

BDO Unibank, Inc. is the Philippines’ leading full-service bank, offering a wide range of financial and digital banking services. Guided by our brand promise “We Find Ways,” we are committed to delivering easy, reliable, and customer-focused services. Build your career with a trusted industry leader.

Job Summary:

• Lead the Digital Architecture team responsible for solution architecture and design assurance across assigned retail digital front-end applications. The role translates established enterprise and unit architecture direction into practical solution designs, ensures delivery conformance, coordinates architecture resources, and provides hands-on guidance to projects and team members.


• Lead day-to-day solution architecture delivery and design assurance for assigned Retail Digital initiatives from service definition through build and transition.


• Apply approved target architectures, reusable patterns, standards, and guardrails to digital banking, mobile/web channels, and related front-end applications.


• Provide solution options, trade-off analysis, risk assessment, and recommendations to project, IT, and business stakeholders.


• Coordinate architecture assignments, reviews, dependencies, issues, and vendor deliverables, escalating material decisions to the Unit Head.


• Coach solution architects, improve architecture artifacts and working practices, and strengthen internal delivery capability.

Job Summary:

Accountability to ITG: 
• Deliver complete, reviewable, and traceable solution architecture artifacts and coordinate with ITG units from service definition through implementation decisioning.
• Verify that assigned solutions comply with IT SDLC, architecture, security, data, infrastructure, DevSecOps, production-readiness, integration, resiliency, operational, and transition requirements.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, option analysis, ARB submissions, and decision reviews; escalate exceptions with clear recommendations, risks, and decision points.
• Maintain and promote approved patterns, templates, guardrails, architecture decisions, and decision records for assigned Retail Digital solutions.
• Identify technical debt, duplicate capabilities, resiliency gaps, and non-standard implementations, and recommend remediation for Unit Head approval.

Accountability to Business: 
• Translate approved business scope and requirements into feasible, secure, scalable solution designs aligned with BDO next-generation architecture and intended outcomes.
• Plan and assign architecture support for scope validation, requirements elaboration, solution design, and delivery assurance.
• Resolve routine design conflicts, cross-platform dependencies, and vendor solution gaps; escalate material or unresolved matters to the Unit Head.
• Present solution options with trade-offs, costs, risks, controls, dependencies, and recommended actions.
• Prepare architecture papers, decision materials, vendor assessments, and delivery-risk summaries for governance and stakeholder forums.

Accountability to Unit: 
 
• Manage the quality, timeliness, and consistency of architecture delivery across assigned Retail Digital initiatives.
• Support capacity planning, staffing, work allocation, and resource utilization, and raise constraints or demand conflicts to the Unit Head.
• Coach team members through onboarding, work reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing, development planning, and performance input.
• Assign solution architects according to solution complexity, risk, criticality, delivery priority, and required expertise.
• Serve as the first escalation point for team delivery issues and ensure timely action, risk management, and appropriate escalation.
• Review vendor and system-integrator architecture deliverables for conformance with BDO target-state architecture, controls, standards, and operational requirements.
• Provide architecture support for incident reviews when needed to address root cause, recurrence prevention, resiliency, security, or integration design

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or other discipline relevant to technology delivery and architecture. 


• At least 10 years of experience in technology delivery, solution architecture, enterprise applications, or systems integration, preferably in financial services.


• At least 5 years of experience delivering complex digital, online transaction, payments, lending, integration, or customer-channel initiatives


• At least 3 years leading or supervising solution architects, senior technical specialists, vendors, or system-integration partners.


• Must be willing to work onsite and be assigned in Ortigas

BDO Unibank, Inc. provides equal opportunity to all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on job requirements and candidate qualifications, and shall not be influenced by any consideration of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity),  national or ethnic origin, or disability.