Job description
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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Architect.
Business: Enterprise Technology
Principal responsibilities:
The primary purpose of the role is to deliver Infrastructure Architectures and Designs for Risk & Compliance IT, ensuring the designs meet the strategy for the business area and the overall enterprise infrastructure strategy.
The team also contributes to the management & optimisation of the portfolio of infrastructure for each business unit, driving operational improvement & cost efficiencies.
This role will support the Risk & Compliance IT business projects and transformation programmes
- delivering new IT services, exploiting infrastructure technologies
- migrating applications to IaaS / PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud
- driving a greater utilization of virtualisation & lower cost storage
- migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
The Infrastructure Architect is expected to work closely with Engineer to delivery Infrastructure Solutions. The role focuses on both Architecture:
- Determine business requirement and influence solution towards preferred HSBC Technology & FSA model
- Gauge strategic impact to business function, impacted upstream and downstream services and subsequent technology footprint
- Ensure logical design contributes to technology objectives
- Examine potential demise opportunities and propose deployment options
- Consider optimal service hosting and placement in line with strategy
And Design:
- Delivering end to end technical infrastructure designs, ensuring Non-Functional Requirements are realised and validated
- Verify impact to adjacent services/systems and Validate deployment and support model
- Qualify technical acceptance of all components
- Review design and gain approval via architecture governance
- Optimise infrastructure with commercial sense
Requirements
- On-hand Infrastructure architect experience with similar roles on the design of Cloud & On-prem Infrastructure solutionSolid system engineering background and understanding of ‘physics’ of infrastructure considerations behind
- Experience of writing codes and going thru pipelines of Build, deploy and Run…
- Good problem solving and analytic capabilities, able to tackle difficult technical issues and find appropriate solution.
- Good communication and presentation skills
- With an appetite for learning new technologies quickly, you are happy working on deep technical problems, collaborating with subject matter experts to agree solutions.
- You have a passion for infrastructure technology and want to accelerate adoption of new technologies in a safe and secure way.
- You are comfortable writing and presenting infrastructure designs for IT services.
- You are comfortable writing architecture strategy and presenting to senior management.
- You enjoy working in a global team, valuing the cultural and professional diversity that this brings and will contribute to a high performing team by embracing new ways of working, such as DevOps & SRE.
- You inspire other architects through innovation, sharing knowledge and are keen to mentor and help your team members to grow in all aspects of their career.
- You will communicate clearly and concisely, with the ability to explain complex technical problems in a simple way to a wide range of stakeholders.
- You are comfortable professionally challenging the assumptions and ideas of others, even senior management, to ensure the best outcomes are achieved
- You have a deep interest in cloud services (ideally GCP and/or Alicloud, AWS), and appreciate the complexities and benefits of using this technology. Ideally certified or ready to skill up.
- You bring an engineering mind-set to designing the infrastructure components of solutions, helping to achieve operational scale as well as system reliability.
Nice to have:
- Conceptual knowledge of the following areas and subject matter expert in some areas:
- Data centre hardware infrastructure (servers, networking, storage)
- Cloud technologies such as Google GCP, Alibaba Alicloud, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, as well as APIs and the full ecosystem
- Microservice & Container architecture, including Kubernetes
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (e.g. GitHub, Nexus)
- Automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code techniques
- Middleware technologies such as Websphere, Tomcat, Java, Messaging, Application Server or Web server
- Modern event systems , kafka , Confluent kafka, Pubsub..
- Networking (e.g. Cisco/F5 devices, TCP/UDP, Broadcast/Multicast, LAN/WAN, SDN)
- Server operating systems (Linux, Windows, Solaris),
- Server virtualization, for example VMware, Xen, Hyper-V or KVM
- Storage technologies such as Pure SAN, EMC SAN, NetApp NAS, CIFS, NFS; Object storage
- Databases. e.g. Oracle, MS SQL, NoSQL data stores, graph database
- Security technologies such as firewalls, HSMs, proxy servers, IDS/IPS, network segmentation tools
- Identity Access Management (e.g. Active Directory, LDAP, Privileged Access Management tools)
- High availability and DR techniques such as clustering (VCS & MSCS), data replication etc
- Collaboration tools (e.g. MS Teams, Confluence, Jira)
- AI, Gen-AI related technology (Open-AI, LLM , Vertex, etc)
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.
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