Enterprise Solutions Architect /Lead Architect

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

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 Architect.

In this role, you will

• Be integral in understanding our application estate and associated data, modelling this data to help provide timely insights, using automated techniques and AI
• Be responsible for managing the application portfolio through its life cycle and assisting to simplifying our estate, removing cost and risk
• Working in collaboration with the digital business, product owners and architects, you will undertake impact assessment, understanding requirements, defining target state architectures and strategic roadmaps
• Collaborating with various Agile teams validating the impacts, technology assumptions, risks & technical debt. Elaborating the solution at various levels, evaluating implementation options and recommendations 
• Ensuring the design of the solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.
• Support the architectural governance processes, reviewing the architecture according to governance standards and processes ensuring adherence to solution architecture policy, promoting re-use and reduction of technical debt.
• Management of stakeholders, Investments, technology and risks for the Value Stream