Work Location: ADB Office Mandaluyong

Shift: Day shift (8am – 5pm)

Work Set-up: Hybrid (3x reporting on site per week)

Salary range: 130,000 - 140,000

About the Role:

The Technical Solutions Architect – Scrum Master will be accountable for both designing technical solutions and facilitating agile team processes. As a Solutions Architect, he/she is expected to define an optimal architecture plan of systems to meet business requirements while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. As a Scrum Master, he/she is expected to guide the team through agile ceremonies, remove impediments, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This combined role demands strong leadership skills to bridge technical strategy with team execution. Ultimately, he/she should ensure that the delivered solutions are both technically sound and

developed efficiently through agile practices.

Scope of Work/Responsibilities:

1. Develop a suitable agile implementation strategy for the ISMS program considering the nature of deliverables, available resources, dynamics of the cross-functional delivery team, and target timelines. He/She should be able to act as the project manager for the program assigned.


2. Lead agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, release planning, and retrospectives.


3. Serve as the primary problem solver for the project. It implies that he/she gets accountable for managing any potential disruptions and ensure progress on sprint delivery including those issues that pertain to the platform e.g., resolving issues with Microsoft support.


4. Manage the scrum artifacts such as the product backlog and organize and the product backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO).


5. Manage cross functional coordination. This entails managing project dependencies and communication with related project’s scrum master, development team leads, stakeholders, product owners, Enterprise Architecture team and related teams.


6. Manage overall quality of deliverables.


7. Mentor the project team on agile principles and best practices on delivering solutions up to the requirements level.


8. Mobilize and ensure all technical and business documentations are always up to date to support knowledge management and transparency. This includes, but not limited to, the Architecture Blueprints (e.g., Solution Design Document and High Level Solution Design), Testing Suite documentation (UAT test steps, Regression testing documentation, etc.), Security Implementation Documents to obtain Security License To Operate (SLTO), Disaster Recovery Plan, Training and Communication Plan, Solution Deployment Plan, Transition Support and Maintenance Plan. Data Dog Vaccination Clearance Documentation, and Software Engineering Standards.


9. Lead end-to-end solutions design. He/She is expected to understand the essence of the business requirements, challenge it, and provide an innovative strategy to fulfill while considering standards.


10. Mobilize and implement project governance frameworks including, but not limited to, coding standards, uniformity of UIUX designs, standardization of solution approach, and security standards to proactively manage vulnerabilities.


11. Guide the development team in creating new solutions and improving existing ones. He/She is expected to provide technical directions on all implementations.


12. Organize the use of DevOps and CICD frameworks to harmonize development lifecycle. He/She should take advantage of the stack of tools available to exercise continuous improvement and innovation.


13. Lead the development of Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions as needed.


14. Champion on the prescribed technology stack of the bank while being open to emerging technologies.

Requirement and Qualification (Education & Work Experience)

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field.

• Minimum of 15 years of general professional experience in digital transformation and system design with a focus on complex data structure, of which the last 8 years are related to the use of Microsoft Power Platform or Microsoft Dynamics 365 in solutions architecture.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience performing dual roles as a solutions architect and as a scrum master on an agile delivery setting.

Technical Knowledge

• Has experience on the use of AI components implementation.