About Us
At 30 Jun 2025, the Group and its associates operated over 7,500 outlets and employed over 83,000 people. The Group had total annual revenue in 2024 exceeding US$24.9 billion.
The Group is dedicated to delivering quality, value and service to Asian consumers through a compelling retail experience, supported by an extensive store network and highly efficient supply chains. The Group, including its associates, operates a portfolio of well-known brands across five key divisions: health and beauty, convenience, food, home furnishings, and restaurants.
The Group's parent company, DFI Retail Group Holdings Limited, is incorporated in Bermuda and has a primary listing in the equity shares (transition) category of the London Stock Exchange, with secondary listings in Bermuda and Singapore. The Group's businesses are managed from Hong Kong.
DFI Retail Group is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group.
The Role
DFI Retail Group is seeking a Business Architect, reports to Senior Business Architect, with experience in shaping, designing, and optimizing business capability models across the organization, value streams, and target operating models that bridge business strategy and technology implementation; and ability to realign the synergy between business, information system and technology domains within DFI Retail Group.
- Define, model, rationalize, and maintain business architecture within the enterprise architecture repository, aligning with both current and future needs in omni-channel retail operations.
- Lead architectural design, implement, and continually optimize Core and Extended Retail ERP solutions, with a focus on integration efficiency, controlled customizations, and scalability for future growth.
- Partner with manager to develop business architecture artifacts to inform investment decisions, technology roadmaps, and portfolio planning.
- Design and validate integration architectures between Oracle Retail and related systems (e.g., WMS, POS, eCommerce) to streamline data flows and improve system performance.
- Contribute to and review the Architecture & Integration Blueprint, endorsing business architecture and data design for retail operations.
- Analyze and produce architecture models and viewpoints across business, information system, and technology domains to address evolving business requirements.
- Partner with solution architects, data architects and business analysts to ensure end-to-end capability and information flows for integrated, data-driven retail environments.
- Participate in enterprise architecture development and governance processes, while providing architectural guidance and promoting best practices to project implementation teams.
- Maintain a culture of continuous improvement, using architectural thinking to drive operational excellence, transformation, and innovation.
About You
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in business analyst, product owner, IT related fields and domains, ideally in the retail or consumer sectors.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in business capability and process modeling.
- Experience in developing enterprise architecture or solutions for retail business.
- Experience in conducting enterprise-level assessments, developing technology roadmaps, and driving programs with measurable outcomes.
- Certified in TOGAF or equivalent is preferred.
- Proficient in major cloud technologies and services (AWS, Azure, GCP) is preferred.
- Proficient in integration technologies is preferred.
- Sound understanding of cybersecurity, cloud and microservices architectures is preferred.
- Effective communication skills, and to be able to present technical concepts concisely.
- Able to work independently and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
