Business Unit
Cloud & Smart Industries Group (CSIG) is responsible for promoting the company's cloud and industry Internet strategy. CSIG explores the interactions between users and industries to create innovative solutions for smart industries via technological advancements such as cloud, AI, and network security. While driving the digitalization of retail, medical, education, transportation and other industries, CSIG helps companies serve users in smarter ways, building a new ecosystem of intelligent industries that connect users and businesses.
What the Role Entails
The Big Data Solution Architecture Leader will define and own Tencent Cloud's big data solution architecture strategy for Singapore and international markets, leading a team of solution architects supporting strategic enterprise customers across e-commerce, gaming, and fintech. This role combines deep big data expertise with technical leadership and commercial judgement: it sets solution standards for regional engagements, drives competitive differentiation against leading global data platforms, channels international market requirements into the product roadmap, and builds a scalable, high-performing architecture capability that converts complex customer challenges into modernised, production-grade data platforms on Tencent Cloud.
- Define and own the regional big data solution architecture strategy, leading a team of solution architects and engaging senior enterprise stakeholders to translate requirements across data architecture, real-time processing, data lakes, analytics, and governance into scalable end-to-end solutions.
- Lead high-impact technical engagements, including executive workshops, architecture reviews, solution demonstrations, and Proofs of Concept (PoCs), setting solution quality standards and driving conversion from technical validation into cloud migration, platform modernisation, and architecture upgrade programmes.
- Own the technical value positioning and competitive differentiation of Tencent Cloud's big data portfolio against other solution providers, developing reusable competitive playbooks that support regional commercial objectives.
- Serve as the senior technical bridge between international customer-facing teams and product and engineering teams at headquarters, channelling recurring market requirements on data compliance, localisation, interoperability, and multi-cloud deployment into product roadmap decisions and globalisation initiatives.
- Build and scale the regional solution architecture capability by establishing reference architectures, reusable architecture patterns, and PoC methodology, mentoring architects, and raising delivery consistency and technical depth across the team.
Who We Look For
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology, Communications Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, together with at least eight years of experience in big data architecture, technical consulting, solution design, or platform implementation, including experience leading solution architects or technical teams on enterprise-scale engagements.
- Deep expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem and technologies including Spark, Flink, Elasticsearch, Apache Doris, ClickHouse, and Trino, together with demonstrated understanding of modern data architectures such as data lakes, lakehouse platforms, real-time processing, serverless data services, and open table formats including Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi.
- In-depth knowledge of the global data and analytics platform landscape, with a track record of technical comparison, competitive positioning, and differentiation at enterprise deal level.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product roadmap decisions through structured customer and market feedback, and to align product, engineering, sales, post-sales, and executive stakeholders across international and cross-cultural environments.
- Professional proficiency in English and Chinese, both written and verbal, is required to independently lead executive-level technical presentations, solution proposals, and negotiations with international customers in English, and to collaborate effectively with product and R&D teams at headquarters whose working language is Chinese.
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