EMEA Retail Banking and Strategy Technical Product Manager/Lead Consultant Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Oversee the product planning, roadmap development, feasibility assessments, and high-level design of business systems or subsystems, technology projects and functions from a technical perspective.
• Collaborate with business, technical architecture and other stakeholders to identify product / customer requirements, assess impacts to other data and systems, consider available technologies, perform cost-benefit study and recommend solutions, collaborating closely with the engineering team in building out new features.
• Work with business entities, vendor, and service providers in providing technical solutions best suited for business initiatives, and act as the key point of contact for the WPB RB&S Technology Business.
• Assess solution viability and recommend strategies and tactics to satisfy customer needs, championing and articulating the merit of each, defending in funding and prioritization both to IT and the Business.
• Work with Group IT Product work streams and Architecture to align and adopt strategic platforms and products for regional deployments while adhering to the Group’s enterprise architecture, FIM and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee execution of project delivery with respect to the achievement of the defined product roadmap and approved investment commitments.
• Understand the budget assigned and work with the programme to raise and control change as necessary, through strong Change Management adherence.
• Work with project working group and Steerco stakeholders, collaborate and influence senior management and business partners for all key programme plans, commitments, and changes.
• Manage activities focused on the deployment of projects from requirements gathering, system design, quality assurance, cost control and implementation planning activities as well as post implementation activities.
• Reliable, dependable individual, able to monitor and report on the product roadmap and intervene when projects go off track and additionally will also continually re-assess the likelihood of operational risk occurring for project deliveries. Proactively managing risk and issues to increase delivery assurance of WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology projects.
• Ensure consistent Software Engineering, Software Deployments and Architecture Compliance within the region for all WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology Systems, holding teams to the highest standards as per Region and Group requirements.
• Act in accordance with Group standards for methodology, technical design, and security. Review and ensure compliance of the processes / activities managed under responsibility with compliance requirements.