Job description
Some careers shine brighter than others.
If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
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, Software Engineering Specialist
In this role, you will:
- Manage delivery of multiple projects and its related Non Functional requirements.
- Manage project approach, building stakeholder buy-in around the project plan, commitments and changes· Oversee the projects activities, including scope, schedule and resourcing.
- Work with business and IT stakeholders to ensure project activities are aligned to wider programme objectives.
- Work with the Programme management team to quantify controls uplifts, success criteria and risk reductions throughout project delivery.
- Assemble and manage the project team and their performance.
- Track and manage risks throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Deliver successful project outcomes (i.e. ensuring it is on time and within budget).
- Manage, monitor and report progress, any issues, dependencies and risks to the Programme management team, internal stakeholders and/or Steering Committee.
- Develop a holistic executive level milestone plan for the business spanning technical delivery and business activities.
- Contribute to and agree business transition plans including handover criteria, ensuring all delivery expectation are meet before handing final activities to BAU.
- Manage the production of reports and information required to manage key stakeholders in the business.
- Acts as the business sign off point for all project tollgate meetings.
- Attend governance forums as required by the business.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor Degree of Engineering with Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Core IT Project management & IT Experience in a large-scale Financial Services environment or global corporate service provider
- Strong understanding and experience in the delivery of IT Service Acceptance process and Non Function requirement for Change the bank and Run the bank projects
- Strong understanding of Service Monitoring and alerting, Operational acceptance testing process, Enterprise Information management, IDAM and OLA process
- Good to have PMP certification or Agile certification with strong experience of managing project using PMI methodology and process
- Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management experience
- Strong Knowledge of Project Management Methodoloy, process and knowledge areas
- Strong experience using in powerpoint, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Sharepoint and Excel for analysis and project status report
- Knowledge of estimation, budgeting, CPM methods, performance evaluation and change management principles.
- Knowledge / previous hands on experience in application engineering and development will be an added advantage
- Knowledge of Cybersecurity and some knowledge of Cyber risk and controls quantification.
- Understanding of industry standard controls frameworks (e.g. NIST FSS) and, some knowledge is beneficial but not mandatory.
- Understanding of project management principles and a relevant Project Management qualification (e.g. PMP, Agile Certification with strong understanding of PMI Methodolgy and process)
- Positive and professional attitude, team player, flexible and adaptable, open to change(s)
- Confident and takes responsibility and ownership for work and personal development
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.