Business Architect

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Business Architect.

In this role you will:

Impact on the Business / Function 

• Support and govern change over market and value stream Future State Architecture, including ensuring target architecture is strategically aligned, and the journeys/deployment channels are in scope
• Attending combined Technology and Business Architecture decision forums and following up with Architects / Business Owners for any items ‘escalated to executive level’
• Support leadership discussions on key issues through development of required artefacts in coordination with relevant stakeholders
• Maintaining IWPB Business Services within the HSBC Group Service Catalogue, the journey taxonomy, market inventories, and owning the governance / change request process for updates
• Coordinate with markets to maintain their market architecture strategies/FSA to appropriately reflect the correct in scope target state. Manage changes to the prioritization of FSA gaps and cost estimates
• Support working group discussions, by developing discussion material and capturing minutes, to optimize reuse of capabilities across markets and avoid unnecessary product variation
• Support adhoc Business Architecture queries, gathering business information to inform decisions
• Collaborate with projects to build and update their Business Architecture blueprints and draw insights that can help the program achieve greater efficiency
• Support business teams in adhering to change implementation standards and other risk & compliance requirements
• Support business teams/ other Business Architects in analysis and mapping of services, processes, and other Business Architecture elements
• Deliver on key HSBC Group-level business architecture priorities
• Manage operational and administrative activities for the Business Architecture team

Customers and Stakeholders

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders from across IWPB, including Value Streams and markets, to support governance processes and resolution of architectural issues across the IWPB portfolio
• Support value streams with architecture decisions required to progress delivery of new capabilities at pace
• Collaborate with Business Architecture teams within IWPB’s and Technology Architecture teams
• Collaborate with Group Business Architecture on Group-wide priorities
• Supports a customer centered culture, championing activities encouraging outstanding service and/or enhancing customer advocacy

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Act as an advocate for the Architecture team, supporting building the understanding of stakeholders in the virtues of architecture approach to change delivery
• Ensure to produce high quality outputs across all activities
• Support a culture of strategic and pragmatic thinking, balancing short-term decisions and investments with longer-term vision and objectives

To be successful you will need:

• A broad understanding of the IWPB business and markets, including products, competitive landscape, regulatory environment and digitalization/innovation trends
• Agile Ways of Operating, operational Value Streams and Business Architecture frameworks.
• Digital transformation and change delivery experience, with focus on strategy and design development
• Ability to grasp complex business and technology problems and design solutions to address these; understanding of technical design of digital capabilities across the layers of the technology stack
• Analytical skills to derive insight from large amounts of imperfect data and information
• Ability to take a commercial stance when evaluating architecture decisions
• Working on a global scale (i.e. across time zone and geography and with remote teams) and navigating through a complex matrix organizational structure
• Defining, establishing and communicating new/improved governance and processes
• Preparing executive presentations to support decision making and coordinating and/or leading decision-making forums
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Strong stakeholder management / Relationship Management, with the ability to interact with and influence Senior Leaders as needed
• Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture
• Able to think laterally and take a pragmatic approach to issue resolution when necessary
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and problems
• Capacity to work on multiple projects and prioritise effectively
• Highly motivated and able to work independently, under pressure and proactively in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines
• Demonstrate strong teamwork
• Experience of working in a global environment, working across cultures and matrix structures, ability to embrace diversity.
• Positive, proactive and can-do attitude
• Familiarity with tooling such as Jira and Confluence will be beneficial

Opening up a world of opportunity
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