Digital Lead Architect - Perm role

As a Lead, you will drive the technology vision and architecture strategy for our digital commerce ecosystem across APAC, with strong focus on online platforms, customer experience, and scalable growth.
Strategic Leadership

Partner with the Head of IT to define and execute the company's technology roadmap with a strong focus on eCommerce and online business expansion.

Architect scalable digital commerce platforms to support high traffic, peak campaigns, and regional growth.

Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to enhance online customer experience and conversion performance.

Translate business, product, and online sales requirements into secure, scalable, and high‑performing architecture.

Design end‑to‑end eCommerce solutions including storefront, checkout, payment integrations, order management, and third‑party system integrations.

Own system architecture diagrams, integration designs, and technical documentation.

Ensure best practices in microservices, event‑driven architecture, cloud‑native and serverless systems.
Engineering & Delivery Excellence

Lead the full SDLC across web and mobile commerce platforms.

Guide development of high‑performance web applications (React.js, Next.js) and mobile apps (React Native for iOS & Android).

Ensure strong UX/UI standards that drive online sales conversion and customer engagement.

Establish CI/CD pipelines, DevOps best practices, and secure coding standards.

Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure optimized for eCommerce traffic spikes and high availability.

Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

Manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS.

Ensure system reliability, performance monitoring, and cost optimization.

Lead and mentor regional and offshore engineering teams.

Work closely with product, marketing, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with online revenue goals.

Coordinate with technology vendors, payment gateways, and logistics partners.

Maintain high standards of engineering governance and delivery excellence.
What You Bring

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

10+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years in architecture or senior technical leadership roles.

Solid background in retail/digital commerce environments.

Deep understanding of the Shopify ecosystem and third‑party integrations.

Experience building mobile commerce apps for iOS and Android, including release management and performance optimization.

Strong knowledge of APIs, payment integrations, scalable networking, and web security.

Extensive AWS experience with EKS/ECS, containerization, and cloud‑native design.

Experience leading distributed/remote engineering teams.

Agile experience; cloud/architecture certifications are a plus.

Fluent in English; Cantonese and Mandarin preferred.

The company has great reputation and offers a permanent position to the suitable candidate. This will be a great opportunity for you if you are looking for a good career path in the IT industry. If you are interested and qualified, send your CV in Word format to Sandy, or call me at to discuss further.
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