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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 Director, Product Development

In this role, you will:

• You are responsible for both delivery and implementation of standards and best practice across FCDP.  You will sit across all of the respective VS FCDP pods and ensure that the respective technical leads are implementing best practice and ways of working.  You’ll also take responsibility for technical design and act as an interface between the build and architecture community.
• Have a comprehensive working knowledge of the Finance Data Platform and provided capabilities
• Have a comprehensive knowledge of ET and bank technical/architectural strategy
• Maintain a close working relationship with the Finance Data VS delivery technical lead, to share the ET and bank technical/architectural strategy
• Proactively communicates and educates technology colleagues in terms of higher level technology/architecture strategy.
• Active contributor to external forums to update colleagues on technical initiatives being undertaken within FCDP
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical queries coming from the Finance VS pods 
• Responsible for maintaining an ongoing relationship with the demand requestors - customers / stakeholders
• In collaboration with stakeholders, FCD team and VS IT counterparts responsible for ensuring there is a maintained and prioritized backlog of demand for delivery of adequate quality
• Where required raises and escalates issues with the quality, timing or other issues relating to the requirements raised that may impact the effectiveness of delivery
• Setup and maintain a suitable repository(s) for control of project artefacts
• Accountable for the maintenance of project artefacts, ensuring they are reflective of the project at all times
• Proactive communication of project progress, ensuring stakeholders are suitably informed
• Engages and supports the VS delivery pod, holding them to account for committed deliver, motivating and supporting through the removal of roadblocks as required

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

• 5+ years of experience in working in Agile delivery
• Demonstrable experience of managing projects including the management of engineering teams, project plans, budgets, risks and issues
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Detailed understanding of FCDP architecture and technical design
• Build relationships with technology, change delivery and other stakeholders
• Knowledge of overall financial services industry with specific functional experience in Finance
• Working knowledge of data delivery covering ingestion, curation and egress
• Awareness of Data Management considerations such as Data Controls, Data Compliance and privacy
• Exposure to Google Cloud, ETL, Ingress, Egress tooling and Business Intelligence tooling such as Tableau, Qlik Sense will be added advantage
• Familiarity IT Systems in banking landscape, particularly Finance would be an advantage
• Prior experience working within HSBC is desirable
• Highly proactive and able to work independently
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills to discuss technical, functional requirement and coordinating on various deliverables with senior business, change team, Operations stake holders
• Ability to present complex ideas succinctly, both verbally and in written form
• Taking ownership of the deliverables and achieving desired outcome under agreed timescales
• Motivated individual that likes to keep current and develop personally
• Flexibility to attend /being available for meetings during UK working hours.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India