Agile Delivery Director - Fixed Term Contract

Ready to deliver HSBC’s next-generation model inventory platform?

Why HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Role

The Agile Delivery Director role is an exciting opportunity to join Risk and Compliance Transformation on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. This role owns the end-to-end delivery of a new Model Risk strategic platform that will be the central inventory for models used in business decision-making, risk management and reporting. The new platform will replace legacy tooling and manage the model lifecycle (Identification & Onboarding, Validation, Approval, Implementation and Monitoring). You’ll deliver a compliant, resilient platform, partnering closely with the Model Risk Management (MRM) team as the system owner. The work supports the Group Model Risk Policy and strengthens control outcomes across completeness, accuracy, timeliness and auditability.

Success means delivering to agreed scope, timeline and budget with strong adoption across model owners and approvers. It also means a controlled migration between Model Risk platforms with reconciled data quality and minimal disruption. You’ll operate in a highly regulated environment with close engagement across Risk, Technology, Audit and regulatory-facing teams. The delivery approach is Agile at scale, coordinating Product Owners and technology teams across value streams.

What you'll be doing:

• Set the programme vision, scope, roadmap and delivery approach for the new strategic platform including Agile delivery cadence
• Deliver migration between existing systems and the new Model Risk strategic platform including mapping, cleansing, reconciliation, sign-offs and data quality remediation
• Establish and run governance forums which can include Scrum of Scrums and PI Planning.
• Ensure successful management of dependencies and risks and issues, including identification and removal of delivery impediments and management of cross Sub Value Stream dependencies.
• Manage the design backlog, shaping priorities with Product Owners and maintaining clear delivery commitments
• Coordinate delivery across Product Owners and Technology teams to land platform capabilities from design through implementation
• Embed policy, regulatory and control expectations into the platform and operating processes including evidence for assurance
• Deliver global rollout planning and execution including cutover, hyper-care and adoption across regions
• Own non-functional outcomes including performance, scalability, availability, recoverability and operational support readiness
• Execute previous platform decommissioning with an agreed residual risk position and complete audit trail.

What we're looking for:

• Bring substantial experience as an Agile Delivery Lead managing a roll-out and implementation of a new Global system
• Hold Professional Scrum Master certification or bring equivalent demonstrable experience running Scrum at scale
• Demonstrate delivery of a new platform end-to-end from design through implementation including operating model readiness
• Bring experience working in a value stream model and coordinating delivery across value streams and sub-value streams
• Demonstrate effective backlog management including design backlog prioritisation and dependency management
• Bring experience coordinating delivery across Product Owners and Technology teams using clear outcomes and delivery metrics
• Hold SAFe certifications or bring equivalent demonstrable experience delivering Agile at scale
• Demonstrate hands-on use of Confluence and JIRA to plan, track and govern delivery
• Bring exposure to model lifecycle or model development, or equivalent experience in model governance environments
• Bring thorough experience liaising with senior stakeholders including influencing and attaining buy-in.

This role offers the chance to deliver a strategic platform that underpins how models are governed across HSBC with real scale and visibility. You’ll bring together stakeholders across MRM, Technology, Risk, Audit and the businesses to deliver a compliant service that stands up to scrutiny. The programme spans platform delivery, control-by-design, migration and safe decommissioning of existing systems. If you want to own outcomes that matter to risk management and reporting across the Bank we’d welcome your application.