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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Architecture Manager.

Business: WPB Technology

Principal responsibilities:

• Creating loosely coupled architectural framework, populated with technology options and defining inter-connective patterns and approaches between components areas.
• Creating platform roadmaps and ensuring cost effective, compliant and appropriate architectures are developed.
• Owning and maintaining Platform application architecture.
• Maintain Platform integrity, ensuring reuse of applications and features for multiple Value Streams.
• Promote reuse of Platform solutions across Sub-Value Streams.
• Defining the key backlog items in line with the platform strategy for input into Value Stream or Enabler backlogs.
• Support definition of non-functional requirements of the Platform.

Platform Architecture

• Ensuring platform architecture reflects the needs of their products and associated enterprise-wide requirements, and working closely with the GBGF CIO architecture function and the solution architects to ensure alignment.
• Understand platform requirements by determining the business aspiration for solution delivery in the medium / long term.
• Iteratively deliver an architecture that aligns against the business strategy.
• Ensuring the solution designs created by solution architects are:
• compliant with the platform architecture and roadmap.
• cost effective consumable solutions.
• design of products and services meet mandatory and regulatory compliance requirements.
• operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues etc) are addressed in the product architecture and fed into the backlog of change on an ongoing and regular basis.
• Working with the Technical Product Manager, CTOs, Product Owner, Solutions Architect and Technical Leads to turn overall business requirements into more detailed stories which are progressed by the teams.
• Understand group strategy within their platform and ensure alignment.
• SME experts to help diagnose and solve issues with deployed systems.
• Work with engineering teams to realise the architecture and, where appropriate, provide full life cycle technical guidance to development teams and ensure quality technical deliverables.
• Ensure various pieces of technical architecture fit together and function successfully in production mode.

Governance

• Own and evolve technology patterns with their platform/domain.
• Definition of technology usage standards and patterns to reflect typical use cases for each technology.
• Definition of interconnection, communication, and data passing standards and approaching between the architectural components.
• Close alignment with engineering, testing, and solution architecture teams to ensure platform architecture patterns and technologies are practically grounded and reflect real world design and development challenges.
• Ownership of practical governance activities for platform technologies such as setting out rationale, ensuring governance alignment.
• Undertake sample code reviews for assigned projects to ensure the code is delivered in accordance with Group standards and methodology.

Architecture Mindset

• Evaluation of new technologies and alignment of technology within the architectural framework.
• Understand state of art technologies, trends and patterns as a means of influencing best in class solutions.
• Understand and engage with industry trends and vendors within their technology area.
• Exploration and identification of new and future technologies that can be adopted by HSBC to support and drive digital channels value in terms of cost, deployment pace, and capability.
• Liaise with Chief Architect Office in identifying technology solutions/patterns for global reuse.

Leadership

• Communicate the technical approach within their platform and influence platform and solution architectures.
• Communicate with group architects to influence direction and lessons learnt.

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