Job description

Enterprise Security Architect

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.                                       

Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

We work in small, agile DevOps teams with colleagues around the world.

Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains, we are currently seeking a number of experienced Enterprise Security Architect to join HSBC Technology.

Brief overview of the business areas

Founded in 1865, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, serving more than 40 million customers through our global businesses. Our network covers 64 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America and Latin America. 

HSBC is committed to investing heavily in the bank’s technology – over the next few years we are replacing almost all of our platforms to create an infrastructure that lays the building blocks for future generations, not only for our customers but also for our employees. We are also investing heavily in our people, ensuring they have the right skills and opportunities to allow us to achieve these ambitions.

Wholesale Technology supports HSBC’s business capabilities in trade and receivables financing, liquidity and cash management, capital financing and investment banking, payments, and credit and lending for corporate and institutional clients covering over 50 key global locations.

Our Wholesale Technology vision is:

“We are a customer-obsessed, diverse technology team. We deliver world-class platforms to transform our international customers’ banking experience: now and in the future”

What you will be doing;

• Working with Cyber and central security architecture define a security strategy to support the IT initiative is within Wholesale bank
• Provide end-to-end ownership of security solutions delivered to meet requirements, delivering the architecture required to realize both functional and non-functional capabilities that aligns to the overall security architecture.
• Provide oversight of WSIT projects to ensure alignment to security architecture and correct consideration of cyber security has been factored into designs.
• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders. Strong experience of working with stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrates excellent situational awareness and ability to appropriately react to a changing landscape
• Performance driven nature and excellent problem solving capability
• Manage a small team of security architects
• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions utilizing standard enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions utilizing cloud technologies (private/hybrid/public).
• Deep knowledge of container based systems such as docker, kubernetes and cloud foundry

Requirements

What you will bring to the role; 

• Experience in an enterprise environment including an understanding of traditional processes and procedures and how they may impact a digital transformation.
• Securing highly available internet banking application.
• Solution architecture skills required. Ability to produce Solution design documents with UML diagrams.
• Knowledge of client side applications and microservices architecture.
• Familiar with microservices and REST based API’s
•  Knowledge of both relational and noSQL database technologies
• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience of working with stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders.
•  Experience of automating processes and procedures end-to-end.

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:

• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts
• Understanding of modern development and associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and practices to design, build and continuously improve an automated end-to-end factory for software delivery, through the route-to-live and into production.
• Experience of CI/D pipelines, modern deployment and release methodologies including automated configuration and provisioning at scale.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management, OAUTH2, JWT, SSO, SAML, PKI, Certificate management
• Forgerock experience essential.

This role will primarily be based in London or another UK base location, some travel may be required.

Come Power a Business that Defines How to Power the World

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.  HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.