Senior Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Architect.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Rapidly understanding business requirements through regular interactions with the CIB Chief Data Office (CDO), business users and other subject matter experts.
• Translating business requirements into solution designs and functional requirements.
• Building technical and logical designs
• Communication of functional solutions to the development team plus ongoing support of the developers as needed.
• Working closely with the production support team to ensure all new software is well understood and readily supported.
• Active promotion of solution architecture, best practice techniques, standards and tools
• Providing recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions
• Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions
• Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions
• Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle
• Developing proof-of-concept projects to validate your proposed solutions
• Reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members
• Managing and defining the detailed end to end solution design for products and features in a way that supports the execution of the technology strategy and roadmap, articulating and addressing associated architectural risks, issues and technical debt.
• Ensuring the design of the solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.
• Ensuring the architecture undergoes appropriate level of assessment at the right stage throughout the agile process in line with the governance process
• Ensuring appropriate level of governance for any decisions when deviating from reference architectures, strategies, patterns or policies.
• Ensuring peer review and solutions design decision making verification and traceability
• Collaborating with the Enterprise, Platform and Value Stream architects to evolve the architectural strategy and roadmap; looking for opportunities to improve the current landscape/enterprise.
• Note that some project management may be required from time to time to ensure the success of any project implementing requirements the candidate has specified.

Requirements

• At least 5 years’ experience of working within a large, complex and geographically dispersed organisation (including matrix management structure and across time zones) as a Solution Architect
• Ability to think logically and abstract the architectural patterns from the technical solutions
• Strong leadership and an ability to articulate, present and obtain approval for solutions at the right level for a wide audience (IT and Business)
• Experience with Streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub)
• Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices
• Knowledge of database technologies: SQL / NoSQL
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing & ETL / data integration aspects
• Operating Systems & Scripting: Linux, Shell Scripting (Bash, AWK), PowerShell
• Experience with any cloud platform: GCP, Azure, AWS
• Experience with Big Data platforms: BQ, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks
• Knowledge of containerization concepts: Docker, Kubernetes (IKP, GKE)
• Experience in designing with good understanding on abstraction techniques
• Proven analysis skills with the ability to challenge designs / decisions.
• Experience in managing and resolving complex issues using proven analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to quickly get up to speed with the current data landscape and apply acquired analysis and data skills to new contexts and approaches
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills. A strong ability to communicate virtually e.g. conference calls and video conferencing
• Strong planning, organisation and time management skills with a demonstrated ability to work to deadlines
• Commercial acumen and ability to apply this to Business and IT data requirements
• Self-awareness and with the confidence to work independently

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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