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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 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 ofLead Developer – AI and Data Science
Principal responsibilities
Play lead role in the following for the Innovation and Strategic Projects area;
Overview
- Develop Python-based solutions for Global Finance business teams, including but not limited to Generative AI
- Research and develop new techniques in data science, Generative AI and related areas to improve the quality of outputs.
- Perform detailed testing of prompts and data inputs and outputs.
- Maintain the codebase including frontend, backend, and algorithms in an engineering global team environment.
- Understand and implement appropriate governance and controls required.
- Face off to the business and other stakeholders, including but not limited to the business line teams, Global Finance Analytics, Transformation, Change/Project Management, IT, Governance teams.
- Contribute towards overall strategy development for the team.
Stakeholder Management, Leadership & Teamwork
- Effective relationship management with stakeholders to ensure timely flow of information and continuous feedback mechanism - Managing the on-time service delivery.
- Work with business stakeholders to obtain deep understanding of requirements.
- Work very closely with business stakeholders for the proofs of concepts and testing stages.
- Closely collaborate with financial engineers, quantitative analysts, project managers, and IT to ensure solutions are performing as expected and delivered on time.
- Accountable for output being in accordance with the strategic outcomes as defined and communicated by the department’s senior managers and offer expertise to help determine such strategies.
- Influence and escalate key issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution.
- Promote a culture of continuous, constructive challenge.
- Embrace change alongside the business to drive delivery of benefits.
- Promote a high-performance culture and an environment for knowledge sharing, learning and development.
- Be a strong team player with the capability to communicate effectively with other team members and stakeholders across varying levels of experience and across multiple locations – Promote collaborations.
- Represent the team in working groups and other committees as required, including presenting demos.
- Be proactive in volunteering opinions and thoughts in team discussions.
- Support hiring and talent development from ADA perspective.
Operational Effectiveness & Control
- Manage all regulatory and compliance matters and the management of operational risk.
- Manage and monitor compliance with all relevant mandatory standards, group policies and tools.
- Communicate change impacts to stakeholders and raise risks and issues to appropriate governance bodies, together with intended action to manage them.
- Identify and leverage opportunities to facilitate delivery of business benefits and mitigate operational risk.
- Manage project or programme resourcing activities.
- Allocate tasks and objectives to team.
Typical KPIs and Targets
- Activities prioritized and completed to required quality standards, in accordance with policy and procedures and within agreed timescales.
- Senior global lead’s and line management’s feedback on completion of activities and tracking of status.
- Feedback from key Finance stakeholders.
- Feedback from key second line stakeholders.
- Operating model and processes implemented to internal HSBC standards.
- Feedback from team
- Adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records, timely updates to project lifecycle documentation as per the activities.
- Risks and issues log
- Project plans
- Adherence to Group Policy, with regular benchmarking
Management of Risk (Operational Risk / FIM requirements)
- The role holder will also continually reassess the operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology.
- This will be achieved by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of operational risk occurring.
- Also, by addressing any areas of concern in conjunction with the global lead and line management and/or the appropriate department.
Observation of Internal Controls (Compliance Policy / FIM requirements)
- Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points, together with any issues raised by external regulators.
- This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant processes/procedures and by liaising within the Finance department. Also and when applicable, by ensuring escalations are raised in a timely fashion and to the right individuals and forums
