Technical Architect/Lead Architect

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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 Architect.

In this role, you will:

• The role holder manages all aspects of architecture for Corporate and FI SVS, including:
• Leadership: Drive the solution architecture team, ensuring adequate resource coverage and supporting the growth and development of team members. Act as a trusted advisor to SVS Lead Architect in creating a trust-based leadership culture with a high level of effective communication globally.
• Designing Solutions: Create conceptual and logical architectures, and design technical solutions that align with technical strategy and standards. Create and lead IT system integration processes to meet the organization's needs and support HSBC ambition to automate all deployments/testing. Ability to manage proof of concepts, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate and eventually adopt most suitable solutions. Ensure design provides a solution to the functional and non-functional requirements (eg. Cybersecurity, performance, entitlement…) and all deviations formally documented and agreed with appropriate parties.
• Communicating Solutions: Champion solution communication, simplify complex concepts for better understanding, and provide a consistent set of solution views to stakeholders. Keep stakeholders updated about project development status and budgets, notifying them immediately of any issues.
• Collaborating: Work with stakeholders to understand their needs and collaborate with engineering teams to create cost-effective solutions. Collaborate with project management teams to improve designs through regular evaluations of the system architecture. Partners with all stakeholders on large projects across WCL to provide architectural oversight throughout the life cycle of a project.
• Establishing Governance: Architectural oversight for enterprise services such as platform, DevOps frameworks and tools. Establish governance and principles at the project level and manage exceptions through the governance process. Apply data governance processes across data lifecycle. Implement a sustainable operating model for technical activities aligned with the DevOps target operating model.
• Promoting Cooperation: Facilitate coordination between technical and non-technical streams to ensure successful delivery. Contribute towards making the WCL IT Communities of Practice for Architecture, DevOps and tooling effective and self-sustaining.
• Evaluating and Mitigating Risks: Evaluate project constraints and devise alternatives to reduce risks, while performing process re-engineering.
• Supervising and Motivating: Supervise and motivate development teams to enhance their efficiency and productivity. Provide leadership and mentorship to the development team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. Collaborate with engineering teams providing technical guidance and best-practices.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze and identify impacts of technical changes on a client’s business processes. Perform continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and improve existing architectures for clients. Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high-quality code standards
• Gen AI Implementation: Leverage knowledge and understanding of Generative AI, implementing it to support various business use cases, enhancing efficiency and innovation.