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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Lead Architect 

In this role you will:

• End to End Solution Design : Defining the detailed end to end solution design for products and features in a way that supports the execution of the technology strategy and roadmap, articulating and addressing associated architectural risks, issues and technical debt
• Translating the requirements created by business analysts into the architecture for that solution, ensuring the products and services meet the customer needs and expected Business Outcomes 
• Engage with relevant Stakeholders, Platform and Enterprise Architects who inform solution design 
• Ensuring the design of the solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities
• Ensuring the NFRs are consistently defined and architected into the design
•  Risk Management : Effectively manage & escalate risks/issues, to ensure there are no surprises for the PM &/or stakeholder where appropriate
•  Governance:  Ensuring the architecture undergoes appropriate level of assessment at the right stage throughout the agile process in line with the relevant governance process ensuring adherence to Decision Driven Design and the Solution Architecture FIM
• Production of relevant risk based architecture deliverables are completed in accordance with Architecture governance process and quality standards 
• Appropriate level of governance for any decisions when deviating from Reference Architectures, Strategies, Patterns or Policies
• Peer review and solutions design decision making verification and traceability 
•  Architecture Mind Set : Collaborating with the Enterprise, Platform and Value Stream architects to evolve the architectural strategy and roadmap; looking for opportunities to improve the current landscape/enterprise
• Identify dependencies across multiple Platforms and Value & Sub-Value Streams; awareness of projects/strategies outside of the Value Stream
• Developing and growing a skillset to design for cloud and for resilient, robust, secure, adaptable and flexible solution
• Act as interface to other architectural groups both regional and at Group level
•  Leadership : Providing leadership with individual PODs or working with a number of PODs to ensure consistency of direction

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

• Essential to have strong Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH) experience
• Wider industry experience of Customer Decisioning/Marketing solutions (e.g. Teradata)
• Google Cloud Platform experience would be strong advantage given planned Pega deployments on Cloud
• Strong integration architecture skills to integrate Pega CDH with digital (Mobile, Web) and staff channels (CRM, Contact Centre etc)
• Ability to provide standard industry security patterns (e.g, oAUTH) and designs 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Capability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization
• Ability to collaborate with the Business and Engineers to ensure solutions adhere to principles and direction set
• Ability to breakdown non-functional requirements into Infrastructure and Security designs
• Excellent Communication skills and the ability to adapt verbal and written communications to the appropriate audience to communicate at the right level
• Responsible for significant architectural decisions and provide justification for decisions taken
• Technical and business stakeholder management from developers to executive management
• Awareness of Infrastructure Design and concepts 
•  Awareness on Integration concepts, techniques and patterns.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India