Senior Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Agile Delivery and Team Facilitation

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
Coach the team and stakeholders on Scrum and Agile principles.
Help the team maintain a clear, prioritised backlog and realistic sprint goals.
Support effective estimation, capacity planning, release planning, and delivery forecasting.
Encourage collaboration, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across the team.
Identify opportunities to improve team flow, delivery predictability, quality, and stakeholder engagement.

• IT Project Management and Delivery

Lead or support the end-to-end delivery of technology projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, and actions.
Define delivery scope, objectives, success criteria, timelines, resource requirements, and key dependencies in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Track progress against approved plans and proactively communicate variances, delivery risks, and recovery actions.
Coordinate work across engineering, architecture, business, operations, security, risk, compliance, infrastructure, and external partner teams.
Manage project dependencies, interlocks, decision points, and critical-path activities.
Maintain clear project governance, including status reporting, RAID logs, decision logs, action trackers, and delivery dashboards.
Prepare concise and accurate updates for project forums, steering committees, governance meetings, and senior stakeholders.
Support project financial, resource, and vendor tracking where applicable.
Coordinate delivery across distributed and cross-functional teams, ensuring ownership and follow-up are clear.
Ensure project outcomes, documentation, lessons learned, and operational handover activities are completed at project closure.
Work with delivery leads and stakeholders to manage scope changes, assess impacts, and maintain alignment with agreed objectives.
Escalate material risks, issues, delays, and decision requirements through the appropriate governance channels.

• Governance, Release and Change Management

Learn, document, and help the team follow relevant internal procedures and workflows, including ITSA releases and change request processes.
Coordinate release readiness activities, implementation planning, testing evidence, approvals, operational readiness, and post-release validation.
Ensure project and release activities are aligned with relevant risk, control, security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Support the preparation and submission of change requests, ensuring that required information, impact assessments, implementation plans, rollback plans, and approvals are complete.
Coordinate with release management, change management, production support, and operations teams to ensure smooth implementation.
Track and communicate delivery decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, and follow-up actions.
Support audit-ready project documentation and evidence where required.

• Technical Delivery and Engineering Collaboration

Apply prior development experience to understand technical discussions, software delivery workflows, dependencies, and common engineering practices.
Work effectively with engineering teams using CI/CD, cloud platforms, automated testing, source control, and modern software development practices.
Help translate technical delivery risks and dependencies into clear business and project impacts.
Support the team in identifying practical approaches to resolve blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
Use delivery metrics to support planning, forecasting, quality improvement, and continuous improvement—not to measure individual performance.

• AI Enablement and Responsible Use

Promote appropriate use of AI tools for coding assistance, test generation, documentation, project reporting, risk identification, and backlog refinement.
Help the team use AI responsibly, with attention to privacy, security, confidentiality, accuracy, intellectual property, and human review.
Evaluate AI-generated outputs critically rather than relying on them without validation.
Identify opportunities to improve project and team workflows through responsible automation and AI adoption.
Encourage appropriate documentation of AI-assisted work where required by organisational standards.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a software developer, engineer, technical delivery lead, or in a comparable hands-on technical role.
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, Technical Project Manager, IT Project Manager, or equivalent delivery role.
• Demonstrated experience delivering IT or software projects from initiation through implementation and transition to support.
• Experience working with software development teams using Scrum or another Agile framework.
• Practical experience with project planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, and stakeholder reporting.
• Experience coordinating complex delivery across engineering, business, operations, governance, and external partner teams.
• Strong facilitation, communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to understand software delivery workflows, technical dependencies, architecture discussions, and common engineering practices.
• Experience supporting release management, change control, implementation planning, and operational readiness.
• Practical experience using AI tools in a software development, project management, or team-delivery context.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated work rather than relying on it without review.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables.
• Ability to identify, articulate, escalate, and help resolve delivery risks and issues.
• Experience producing clear project status updates, governance materials, RAID logs, delivery plans, and decision records.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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