Business Architect

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 an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

We’re one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We’re currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Business Architect.

Our business architecture team acts as the functional custodian for Private Banking and Wealth and Premier Solutions, translating proposition strategy into technology-enabled solutions that deliver measurable client and business value. You’ll partner with the EMEA business architecture team to define the target operating model, business capability map, and end-to-end customer and process journeys aligned to the regional strategy. You’ll work closely with technology architecture to shape the target platform and solution architecture and produce the required artefacts for submission to the Private Banking and Wealth and Premier Solutions design authority, ensuring alignment with global architecture and design standards across strategic value streams.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you’ll:

• Support various domains and Private Banking and Wealth and Premier Solutions markets to align their business strategies with the appropriate solution via clear choice assessment and business architecture design
• Support documentation of business strategic vision (goals, products, target customer groups etc.) and develop key artifacts, including customer journeys, capability maps, and business architecture, aligning business strategies with operational elements such as process, people, and technology
• Analyse current state against target state architecture to identify gaps and opportunities to help develop innovative solutions for business challenges
• Collaborate with technology architects and the business to support Private Banking and Wealth and Premier Solutions markets’ alignment to the future state architecture
• Support EMEA business architecture leadership in ensuring that business architecture is well documented and communicated, ensuring change activity is informed by target business and operating models
• Support domains and business teams with architecture decisions required to progress delivery of new capabilities at pace, whilst helping drive open and honest communication with key stakeholders, ensuring all available options are considered and key design decisions are informed
• Interlock with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Risk, and Legal, to ensure the architecture design is feasible

• Collaborate with Business Architecture teams in other business lines as required and technology architecture teams

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

• A strong ability to grasp complex business and technology problems
• Analytical skills to derive insights from large amounts of imperfect data and information
• Problem-solving abilities to identify gaps and opportunities to help develop innovative solutions for business challenges
• Experience with target business and operating models, particularly developing key artefacts
• Awareness of the purpose, culture and fundamentals of business architecture
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, and is proactive in delivering results independently with minimal supervision
• Experience working across business, data, process, and organisational architecture and design
• Experience working within financial services would be highly desirable

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500