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

Business: Wholesale Technology

Principal responsibilities

You will be primarily working in the HSBC Connect service tower accountable for defining the roadmap, strategy, target state architecture and design of Digital Connect Platform Corporate Treasury API’s.Define solution architecture and design seeking practical approaches that optimize cost and reuse design against HSBC standards ensuring your work aligns to wider strategy and direction.
Engage with stakeholders across Business IT provide direction and steer by communicating key design principles and key design decisions that underpin your architecture road map and strategy.Your primary focus would be to organically transformation the current architecture to Fit for Future architecture that is powered by Distributed Technologies Event Driven Cloud architecture principles.You are also responsible to define strategy for onboarding of customers on to new platform, migration of customers to the new platform and maintain both the old and new platforms in the interim stage whilst ensuring the regulatory requirements are met. This will not be a lift and shift migration and you are expected to future proof the platform by defining the Cloud adoption strategy and taking care of non-functional requirements like Security, Performance, Scalability and Reliability.You will be specifically responsible for providing architecture inputs and steer to the program steer co, chair design authorities and help define the delivery roadmap for the various components involved end to end. You will be working with Delivery leads, Product Owners and peers within the Digital Architecture Team to develop the target and transitional architectures, grounded in achievable investment and delivery roadmaps, that will evolve these services to be channel-agnostic and underpinned by streamlined data models and modern platforms.Focus on design for Cloud and Software As A Service strategies, as set out by the ‘digital by default’ vision. Promote and ensure use of ubiquitous API standards across both processes and systemsYou are required to be Hands-On to build Proof of Concepts Stay abreast of relevant technology trends and advise IT and the business about potential benefits / impactsYou are expected to provide thought leadership and technical direction to engineering operation teams as required to achieve desired technical deliverables and be prepared to support aspiring colleagues to start their careers in Architecture.You are expected to build trust and rapport with senior stakeholders in IT and business and provide required advise, guidance direction to them on critical decisions.You are expected to drive conversations, manage conflicts and arbitrate on difficult conversations to converge the group on to right decisions, resolutions to achieve desired outcomes.