Solution Architecture/Lead Consultant Specialist

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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 Consultant Specialist.

In this role, you will:

• Lead Architects within CoE to support wholesale tech on resilience related activities from a business, process, and tech architecture perspective.
• Analyse and update IT Service Chain maps per architectural changes and business process changes.
• Applying architectural risk management techniques and decision-making principles to ensure that CoE delivery velocity is maintained without compromising architectural integrity.
• Contribute to technical strategic roadmaps and position the wholesale banking bank to be resilient based on latest industry capabilities.
• Work with Analysts and Engineers to deliver updated service chain maps, Tech Resilience and Control assessments. Work with business to understand requirements and provide technical subject matter expertise in this area.
• Enable effective regulatory, audit & security controls.
• Work with any external vendors to ensure full understanding of their current and future states impacting IT SCMs and Tech Resilience landscape.
• Seek to push forward strategies to provide cost effective and future proofed solutions for Wholesale tech resilience landscape.
• Ensure that savings and efficiency are delivered through reduced complexity and internal solutions.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• At least 10-15 years of relevant IT experience, including exposure to business planning, systems analysis and application development (5-10 of those years to be devoted specifically to architecture). Appropriate certification is a plus.
• Actively research and investigate new Resilience related technologies and stay abreast of latest in the regulatory and tech architecture field.
• Experience with Resilience Architecture updates, triggers, solutions, and industry best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of key IT domains particularly computing platforms (Windows, UNIX and Linux) and networking technologies.
• Proficient in security concepts related to DNS, routing, authentication, VPN, proxy services and DDOS mitigation technologies.
• Service architecture - Experience of API and service-based architectures using SOAP, REST APIs, micro-services and utilizing JSON for web or mobile applications. CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance center.
• Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX, XP. Comfortable working with ambiguity and conducting research as well as working with third party vendor(s).
• Ability to write position papers on highly complex topics for a business audience to assist in decision making.

You ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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