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Senior Manager (Solutions Architect)

GCash (GXI Inc.)

BGC Taguig CityAPR 2025 - PRESENT

Overview

Leading R&D initiatives focused on LLM integration and organizational transformation. Responsible for designing comprehensive architectures and bridging the gap between business strategy and technical implementation.

Key Achievements

  • Championed R&D initiatives on LLM integration and organizational transformation, designing new workflows and restructuring teams from code organization patterns to executive-level tooling and management practices to enable LLM-ready ways of working
  • Bridged the gap between upper management and development teams by translating business requirements into technical solutions, designing end-to-end architectures, and delegating implementation to engineering teams
  • Evaluated and optimized solution architectures by analyzing tradeoffs across performance, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability to select optimal technical approaches that balance business constraints with engineering best practices
  • Established organizational frameworks for LLM adoption, including prompt engineering standards, AI-augmented development workflows, and knowledge management systems
  • Designed and implemented governance models for AI tool usage across development teams, ensuring consistency and quality
  • Led cross-functional initiatives to modernize development practices and tooling to support AI-assisted workflows
  • Spearheaded the modernization and platformization of existing implementations by consolidating codebases for shared functionality, building back-office applications to replace manual database operations, and retiring redundant frameworks and databases to simplify architecture and operationalize common activities
  • Administrative tasks including clocking in and out of attendance and notes for tasks done throughout the day, validating and filing for budget and spending, coordinating implementation plans with devs, SDs, and other SAs

Technologies & Tools

Language/Framework: Java, SpringBoot

Integrations: Postgres (AWS Aurora), Kafka, Elasticsearch (AWS OpenSearch), JWT, REST, Contentful, Notabene, Fireblocks

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

Testing: JUnit, Wiremock, Testcontainers, Mockito, Hamcrest

CI/CD: ArgoCD, Kustomize

Others: Github Copilot, Figma, Confluence, JIRA, Alipay Mini Program, Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Cursor

What I Liked

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Friendly and professional team members

What Needs to Improve

  • Insufficient documentation
  • Ticket-based workflow creates inefficiencies
  • Multiple concurrent projects create significant context-switching overhead
  • Frequent meeting conflicts requiring attendance at multiple overlapping sessions