Manager, IT Cybersecurity Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-14 Singapore Permanent ICT

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About the Company

SMRT Trains Ltd was incorporated in 1987 and operates Singapore's first mass rapid transit system. Today, we manage and operate train services on the North-South Line, East-West Line, the Circle Line, the Thomson-East Coast Line, and the Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. With over 5,000 employees, more than 250 trains, and 141 km of rail tracks across 108 stations, we serve millions of commuters daily. We have set our core values to be Integrity, Service & Safety and Excellence. SMRT is committed to provide safe, reliable and comfortable service for our commuters.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain SMRT's IT cybersecurity architecture blueprint, ensuring alignment with the organisation's technology roadmap and cybersecurity strategy.
  • Establish secure by design principles, architecture guardrails, and security design standards for all digital and operational systems.
  • Provide governance and oversight through architecture review boards, design assurance processes and solution endorsement mechanisms.
  • Ensure that architecture decisions support resilience, scalability, and compliance with emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead the design and evaluation of security controls for new systems, platforms, cloud solutions and major transformation programmes.
  • Provide expert advisory to project teams, solution architects, and engineering teams on system hardening, network segmentation, identity security, cloud security and application security.
  • Conduct architectural risk assessments and security design reviews, identifying design weaknesses and recommending effective mitigation measures.
  • Develop, publish and maintain cybersecurity reference architectures, technology standards and integration patterns.
  • Ensure that architecture artefacts remain updated with industry best practices, emerging technologies and regulatory expectations.
  • Lead the harmonisation of cybersecurity tooling and platforms, promoting interoperability, standardisation and lifecycle optimisation.
  • Identify emerging security capabilities required to support SMRT's cyber roadmap (e.g., Zero Trust, identity centric security, cloud-native security, advanced monitoring).
  • Evaluate new security technologies and conduct proof of concepts to validate feasibility, effectiveness and architectural fit.
  • Drive the planning and implementation of strategic cybersecurity architecture initiatives.
  • Support technical assurance activities to validate that implemented solutions meet approved security architecture requirements.
  • Review system configurations, deployment architectures and integration designs to ensure compliance.