Enterprise Architect, WPB

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 are currently recruiting a talented Enterprise Architect to join WPB IT.

The Enterprise Architect defines the technology strategy and implementation roadmap for their function. Their primary stakeholders are CIOs, Platform Leads, CTOs, Business and Transformation colleagues, and fellow Architects (Enterprise, Platform, Value Stream/Portfolio, Solutions). They may specialise in a specific technology / digital domain or operate horizontally. They are responsible for shaping the architecture roadmap within HSBC and implementing technology strategy across regions, global businesses or technology areas and domains.

What you will be doing;

Enterprise Architecture

• Defining, maintaining and owning the enterprise architecture blueprint, ensuring alignment to HSBC Technology strategies and to provide overarching Design Authority accountability for major change initiatives across the Group
• Engaging with their primary stakeholders to influence strategic investment decisions and technology outcomes
• Own WPB Technology architecture 
• Reduce the cost of deploying change across the landscape through a roadmap that defines successive change through consolidation and/or industrialisation of associated platforms, technical journeys, security solutions, delivery ALM pipelines, integration (API driven and middleware) and ensuring that the optimal compatibility and interoperability between platform technologies, heritage and future, is achieved
• Validate each Value Stream / market target state roadmap, enriching the aspiration to ensure the balance between discrete needs and group wide direction are incorporated 
• Identifying opportunities and threats in the technology industry and articulating potential impacts to HSBC. 
• Stay abreast of technology trends and advise Technology and the business about potential opportunities
• Consult on new best practices, processes, operating model, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies.
• Stay abreast of technology trends and advise business/CIO/CTOs/Chief Architect and the business about potential benefits/impacts
• Identify all forums and communities (internal and in Industry) requiring retail bank enterprise architecture and strategy representation and drive the agenda around both overarching compliance and specific innovations needed 

Governance

• Providing design authority for technology and design decisions and leadership of architectural governance and controls
• Custodian of strategic alignment to HSBC and WPB technology strategy

Leadership

• Leading and owning the development and implementation of architecture blueprints (e.g. strategy, principles, standards, patterns & roadmaps)
• Introducing new ways of working, products and services and / or technology capability against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies
• Define and promote architectural standards and methods  
• Influence architecture and design within the architecture discipline, including ensuring that the target for architecture is implemented consistently across the CIO function and drive the realisation of strategy
• Work with fellow peers and senior colleagues to ensure vitality across the team and share the responsibility of adapting the capability and its people to the high degree of change and challenge that the market is driving
• Lead and drive operational excellence on the full architectural life cycle and provide guidance to development teams to ensure quality technical deliverables.

Qualifications

What you will bring to the role;  

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Experience building scaled solutions with the consideration of quality attributes as a primary rather than secondary consideration
• Ability to identify key system architecture components, propose and help teams build solutions that unblock deployments.
• Ability to interact at executive level within the business as well as Technology is critical to the success of this role
• Capability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate strategies, planned and managed approaches, methods and tools and operational plans globally.
• Excellent stakeholder management - deliver a highly effective cross-functional leadership across diverse populations, regions and markets globally building strong working, effective stakeholder relationships and engagement across all teams.
• Excellent Leadership and Teamwork - educate, inspire, motivate and mentor teams, creating a sense of community amongst the disparate members of the technical areas

Resilience and tenacity with highly effective influencing, persuading and negotiating skills.

• Become accustomed to managing a high level of ambiguity across geographies, markets, products and services and delivering clear decisions and direction
• Experience in digital and broader architectural transformation, applying solutions from experience in decomposing monolithic solutions and methods to manage technical debt.
• Ability to understand, articulate and translate customer journeys into technical design, leveraging API and micro-service architecture techniques and applying the platform solutions required to enable.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of enterprise level software development and API based integration, e.g. Mulesoft
• Ability to participate in technical design and oversee all technology related issues of cloud-native product development, building a micro-services based architecture, promoting API reuse and managing down technical debt across the enterprise. 

This role can be based in London or Sheffield. 

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.

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