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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of CTO Head of Enablement China.

Business: CTO 

Principal responsibilities 

• Leadership: Lead and manage a team of technology professionals in the market, ensuring that they are aligned with the bank's overall strategy, and that their work is focused on delivering the highest quality technology solutions.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other regional tech leads, the Head of Technology, and other senior stakeholders to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with the bank's overall strategy, and that the region's technology needs are met.
• Innovation: Drive technology innovation and transformation in the region, ensuring that the bank is using the latest technologies to improve customer experiences and streamline operations.
• Compliance: Ensure that technology solutions in the region are compliant with all relevant regulations, policies, and standards.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with technology vendors in the region, ensuring that they are delivering high-quality solutions and services that meet the bank's needs.
• People Management: Develop and manage the team of technology professionals in the region, ensuring that they are engaged, motivated, and equipped with the necessary skills and resources to deliver high-quality technology solutions.

Leadership and Strategy Responsibilities:
• Lead the China CTO Enablement function to successful delivery of business outcomes across all areas of CTO including cloud and colleague and collaboration.
• Strong commercial awareness looking for ways to drive down RTB costs through automation, less toil and efficient use of Infrastructure.
• Ensure HSBC technologies in China are standardized where possible, with appropriate controls and aligned to customer needs and the Chinese regulator needs
• Help to promote the Net Zero strategy for CTO embedding best practices and consistency across the organization.
• Work with market leaders to capture regional business requirements whilst ensuring global consistency
• Manage the associated budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.
• Build strong working relationships with Product Lines and business leaders to ensure teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.
• Collaborate with other CTO leaders in market and globally to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.
• Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.
• Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the CTO Enablement, China organization.

Talent Management Responsibilities:
• Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent.  
• Manage resource allocation across teams to maximise business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.
• Manage talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Partner with CTO HR to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the organisation’s skill and capability needs, and to provide rewarding career paths for software Enablement staff.
• Recruit and hire talent to address new needs and skill gaps.
• Facilitate collaboration and partnership across teams and stakeholders.
• Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.
• Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain staff.

Teamwork:
• Build and maintain the broad and diverse set of skills required to run CTO in the UK
• Provide strategic direction, leadership, support, guidance and management for the team
• Functional leadership of IT managers and ensure best practices for team management
• Strategic engagement with key 3rd parties and vendors to ensure a strong partnership is established for the strategic benefit of the Bank
• Establish a robust communication and support mechanism across CTO, Technology and Business teams 
• Ensure the necessary resources are sourced to support demand
• Ensure there is a strong colleague development framework in place including succession planning, diversity balance, nurturing, coaching, skills development and career progression

• Proven industry experience of leading a region including processes, technologies, challenges, strategy and product management
• Expertise in Strategy, Business Planning, Governance and Stakeholder Management
• Knowledge of technology and technology trends, and the ability to provide technology consultancy to senior business heads 
• Established industry relationships with Executives at large technology vendors
• Experience in planning and managing significant expenditure in a complex organisation
• This role will require detailed understanding of all business areas across the bank in the China and relevant technology domains 
• The role will be responsible for developing thought leadership and best practice, including engagement with vendors / third parties 
• Ability to work across cultures and all locations in a complex, matrix organization
• Solid knowledge of local regulatory requirements & strong stakeholder management skill
• Good understanding in Abacus Project will be a plus
• Mandarin strongly preferred due to the job nature

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