Application Solution Architect/Senior Architect

Job Description

Job description

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If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

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.

In addition, the function is embarking on a journey to replace current technology offerings that supports the customer collections Management Information System with Big Data/ETL(DataStage)/SQL Server/Oracle and Cloud based Business Intelligence platform across the markets.

The successful candidate will be drive the technology evolution whilst managing the teams providing change & support for the existing solutions across the multiple markets.

• They will provide the architecture leadership, mentoring, escalation, and resource allocation to the Fraud architecture team
• Accountable for their teams end to end solution architecture strategy and designs ensuring the creation of strategically aligned, cost effective solutions that adhere to platform roadmaps and overall enterprise architecture.
• Working closely with business and senior technology stakeholders, providing architecture direction and input to business strategy
• Able to manage risk, including timely and effective management and escalation of risks and issues
• Ensure relevant architecture governance and standards are met
• Partner with external suppliers to define architecture patterns and integration approaches
• Stay up to date with technology trends and communicate to peers and stakeholders

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Lead architect experience on major projects or programmes
• Experience of Retail and commercial Banking (Payments, Cards and onboarding). Customer and staff channel is relevant to the role.
• Experience of working in international or global projects preferred
• Experience architecting application solutions with medium to large application integrations involved.
• Good to have experience on GCP solutions, and GCP Certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communications appropriately to the audience
• Significant experience of Architecture ways of working, for example Reviews, Design Authority processes
• Has previously worked with third parties vendors, and been involved in RFP processes
• Excellent understanding of API architectures (API patterns, security approaches, Spring, integration)
• Exposure to as many as possible of: UI frameworks (e.g. mobile and web frameworks), Databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle), BPM (e.g. IBM BAW, Pega, Camunda)
• Proven ability to deliver in a matrixed organisation, including working collaboratively and resolving conflicts
• Proven ability to work with ambiguous problems and drive solutions and escalation through excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Awareness of infrastructure, integration, data, messaging or security are also relevant technical skills.
• Ability to be pragmatic, flexible, have a sense of ownership, develop networks, and be culturally sensitive are also relevant personal attributes.

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Issued by - HSBC Software Development India