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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 Associate Lead Architect
In this role, you will:
- Define solution architecture and design seeking practical approaches that optimize cost and reuse design against HSBC standards ensuring your work aligns to wider strategy and direction.
- Defines the technical vision, design and specifications that delivers solutions to business problems.
- Participate in discussions and give recommendations on clear choice to facilitate key architecture decisions adhering to Group Standards and Guidelines.
- Communicate to business and engineering teams the design principles, and key design decisions that underpin your architecture road map and strategy.
- Understand the requirement and use judgement to strike the right balance between addressing immediate requirements and doing the right thing for the longer term.
- Adopt best practices, adhere to governance frameworks & standards to produce high quality designs that address non-functional requirements around performance, reliability, scalability & security. Ensure preparedness for effective regulatory, audit & security controls purposes.
- Contribute actively to the wider Architecture and Design communities in sharing knowledge, and supporting peers
- Stay abreast of relevant technology trends and advise IT and the business about potential benefits / impacts
- Seek opportunities to continuously improve HSBC customer propositions, business and product strategy with a pragmatic, strategic and commercial mindset by introduce new techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed.
- Provide a consultancy & guidance to IT and business teams, work as a cross-functional team member, liaise with other Specialist, Architects contributing to the overall success of the team over individual.
- Identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies ensuring action is taken to quantify and mitigate them
- Focus on design for Cloud and Software As A Service strategies, as set out by the ‘digital by default’ vision. Promote and ensure use of ubiquitous API standards across both processes and systems