Lead Enterprise Architect

at  THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED

FUNCTIONAL DIRECTION TO:

WPB IT is the technology organization that provides banking services to our retail and private banking clients. It provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that cover the global need of our clients.
Insurance VS is part of the wider WPB IT organization. We partner with the insurance business in a number of significant programs to enable new business propositions to customers. Hence, the need to either introduce or refresh new/existing technology platforms is becoming more and more critical as we have determined technology is a key enabler needed to support these capabilities to further enhancing the capabilities and customer experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Sound knowledge of artificial intelligence
• Experience in an enterprise environment including an understanding of traditional & modern processes and procedures and how they may impact a digital transformation.
• Have an in-depth functional and non-functional knowledge of cloud platforms & native services, specifically AWS or GCP
• Understanding of modern development and associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and practices to design, build and continuously improve an automated end-to-end factory for software delivery, through the route-to-live and into production.
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines, modern deployment and release methodologies including automated configuration and provisioning at scale
• Familiarity with microservice architectures
• In depth knowledge of container-based services, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Working level knowledge of modern technology stacks across front-end & back-end

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

University degree in a technical discipline
Relevant industry certifications
Sound knowledge on modern technology stacks (e.g. AI)

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

At least 10+ years of relevant technical experience.
Experience of working in a large & complex corporate environment.

• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders. Strong experience of working with senior stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders
• Strategy definition of our target state enterprise level foundational platforms
• Provide architectural leadership for services/solutions across Insurance service domains
• Define and align a vision, but with the ability to deliver incrementally and provide immediate value to the stakeholders
• Work with the wider HSBC organization to drive Insurance specific priorities for solutions that we should leverage from group or WPB levels
• Define and maintain architecture and technology roadmaps on enterprise level across markets
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions/platforms utilizing modern technology stacks
• Provide detailed design guidance to senior lead solution architects to make sure their technical designs are sound & can meet business capability & service resilience needs
• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders & senior engineers