Functional Direction To:
WPB IT is the technology organization that provides banking services to our retail and private banking clients. It provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that cover the global need of our clients.
Insurance VS is part of the wider WPB IT organization. We partner with the insurance business in a number of significant programs to enable new business propositions to customers. Hence, the need to either introduce or refresh new/existing technology platforms is becoming more and more critical as we have determined technology is a key enabler needed to support these capabilities to further enhancing the capabilities and customer experience.
Responsibilities and Soft skills
· Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders. Strong experience of working with senior stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders
· Strategy definition of our target state enterprise level foundational platforms
· Provide architectural leadership for services/solutions across Insurance service domains
· Define and align a vision, but with the ability to deliver incrementally and provide immediate value to the stakeholders
· Work with the wider HSBC organization to drive Insurance specific priorities for solutions that we should leverage from group or WPB levels
· Define and maintain architecture and technology roadmaps on enterprise level across markets
· Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions/platforms utilizing modern technology stacks
· Provide detailed design guidance to senior lead solution architects to make sure their technical designs are sound & can meet business capability & service resilience needs
· Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders & senior engineers
Technical Skills and Experience
· Sound knowledge of artificial intelligence
· Experience in an enterprise environment including an understanding of traditional & modern processes and procedures and how they may impact a digital transformation.
· Have an in-depth functional and non-functional knowledge of cloud platforms & native services, specifically AWS or GCP
· Understanding of modern development and associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and practices to design, build and continuously improve an automated end-to-end factory for software delivery, through the route-to-live and into production.
· Experience of CI/CD pipelines, modern deployment and release methodologies including automated configuration and provisioning at scale
· Familiarity with microservice architectures
· In depth knowledge of container-based services, such as Docker and Kubernetes
· Working level knowledge of modern technology stacks across front-end & back-end
Education Requirements
University degree in a technical discipline
Relevant industry certifications
Sound knowledge on modern technology stacks (e.g. AI)
Relevant Experience
At least 10+ years of relevant technical experience.
Experience of working in a large & complex corporate environment.
Additional Information:
The success of the technology platform enablement programs will be determined not only by delivery but also the way in which the team delivers. Evidence of the following attributes is therefore key:-
· Team work approach, team player
· Open to receiving and giving constructive feedback
· Driven / enthusiastic / self-starter
· Willingness to learn and lead
