Associate Lead Architect/Wealth & Personal Banking IT

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

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

In this role, you will:

- The Associate Lead Enterprise Architect will work with the leadership of the Business and IT, helping them define their technology vision and strategy.
- The requirement for the role is to take accountability for the enterprise architecture needs of the GPB&W; organisation. This role will be one of the protagonists of enabling strategy to be realised across the technology estate, including support in the shaping of strategic investments, ensuring the adoption of Group architecture practices and that other business functions and services are aligned and integrated across shared services and platforms.
- Be conversant and comfortable in discussing technology strategy at senior levels if Technology Leadership.
- Define and present and GPB&W; enterprise architecture in various forums, ensuring the strategy and technology roadmaps are visible both internally within GPB&W; and externally to other functions within the Group.
- Map strategic direction to regional needs and show how individual markets will consume and benefit from new capabilities that are rolled out.
- The candidate will support the Platform Architect define and maintain a holistic approach to our enterprise strategy and deliver strategic insight, innovative and creative thinking that helps drive business growth.
- Help define the enterprise-level technology change portfolio and that it is coherent and enables delivery of the business strategy. Own the maintenance of the EA blueprint.
- Support the development and implementation of architecture strategy and standards, drive the model into value stream adoption using defacto business and technology capability taxonomies.
- Influence architecture and design within the architecture discipline, including ensuring that the target for architecture is implemented consistently across core capabilities and drive the realisation of strategy.
- Consult on new best practices, processes, operating model, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies.
- Work with fellow peers and senior colleagues to ensure vitality across the team and share the responsibility of adapting the capability and its people to the high degree of change and challenge that the business is driving.
- Stay abreast of technology trends and advise stakeholders business about potential benefits/impacts.
- Ensure HSBC and/or WPB enterprise needs and capabilities are factored in and positioned for the future, ahead of developing reusable alternatives (i.e. define the gap)