DFI Retail Group Hiring! Full Time Solution Architect in Selangor - Ricebowl

Is this your next challenge as a Solution Architect?

We seek an employee to bridge the gap between digital architecture vision and practical implementation, ensuring technology choices and project designs align with business goals and architecture principles.

The challenge is to:

Key Accountabilities

• Define solution architecture for format digital initiatives
• Pressure-test feasibility, integration complexity, and dependencies early in BRD / funding stage
• Translate product requirements into scalable technical solution designs
• Ensure solutions align with Group Tech architecture, security, data, and platform standards
• Support engineering handoff and resolve solution-design issues during build

Decision Rights

• Recommend solution options and architecture trade-offs
• Challenge designs that create technical debt, integration risk, or duplicated builds
• Escalate unresolved architecture, security, dependency, or feasibility issues
• Advise on buy / configure / build choices
• Sign off solution readiness before build, where relevant

Role Competencies

• Systems and architecture judgment: Understands how digital, data, platform, and enterprise systems connect, and can design scalable, maintainable solutions
• Feasibility and trade-off thinking: Makes pragmatic trade-offs across speed, cost, complexity, risk, reuse, and long-term architecture integrity
• Business-tech translation: Converts product and business intent into technical solution options that business and engineering teams can both understand
• Governance and risk discipline: Applies security, data, integration, observability, and non-functional guardrails without over-engineering
• Format proximity and influence: Works close to format priorities while aligning Product, Tech, Architecture, Data, Security, and vendors around one solution

Requirements:

• Seniority: 6 -10+ years in solution architecture, digital engineering, enterprise architecture, or systems integration
• Domain: Retail / eCommerce / omnichannel platform experience preferred
• Scope: Experience designing cross-system solutions across apps, APIs, middleware, data flows, security, and enterprise platforms
• Cross-functional exposure: Worked across Product, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, vendors, and business teams
• Technical knowledge: APIs, integration patterns, cloud, security, non-functional requirements, and architecture governance

If you have the right skills and experience, this is an opportunity to build your career with Asia’s leading retailer.

DFI Retail Group is an equal opportunity employer and responsible for ensuring that all personal information collected from each Candidate presented to DFI Retail Group is used for recruitment purposes only and the personal data will be kept and handled confidentially. We will retain the applications of candidates not selected for a period of no more than 24 months. The data collection process is in accordance with all applicable laws and compliant with the Code of Practice on Human Resource Management.

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