Business Architect - HK Business
HSBC · Kowloon City, Hong Kong +1 · 3mo ago
GCB 4
JOB DESCRIPTION
Wealth and Personal Banking Asia Pacific Business Transformation team is looking for dynamic, driven and passionate Business Architect to join our Value Streams to shape, deliver and embed better customer outcomes across various products, propositions and channels.
Transformation is a diverse team of professionals that value personal development and are committed to help you grow and expand your expertise in different areas.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of fast-paced change environment and contribute directly to creating and delivering solutions for our Customers.
Principal responsibilities
- Attending Business Architecture decision forums and following up with Architects / Business Owners for any items ‘escalated to executive level’.
- Supporting the coordination of the Business and Architecture forum, including the preparation of monthly agendas and preparation amongst participants.
- Maintaining WPB Business Services and owning the governance / change request process for updates.
- Running working groups to resolve issues and agree, implement, and communicate process. improvements to optimize reuse of capabilities across markets and avoid unnecessary product variation.
- Supporting ad hoc Business Architecture queries, gathering business information to inform decisions.
- Managing (including capturing and socializing) the set of agreed business patterns for common business architecture problems across Value Streams.
- Delivering on key HSBC Group-level business architecture priorities.
- Building strong relationships with key stakeholders to support governance processes and resolution of architectural issues across the WPB portfolio.
- Supporting value streams with architecture decisions required to progress delivery of new capabilities at pace.
- Collaborating with Business Architecture teams in WPB’s business lines and other related stakeholders.
- Collaborating with Group Business Architecture on Group-wide priorities.
- Supports a customer centered culture, championing activities encouraging outstanding service and/or enhancing customer advocacy.
- Acting as an advocate for the Architecture team, supporting building the understanding of stakeholders in the virtues of architecture approach to change delivery.
- Ensuring to produce high quality outputs across all activities.
- Enabling a culture of strategic and pragmatic thinking, balancing short-term decisions and investments with longer-term vision and objectives.
- Mentoring and coaching less experienced members of the Architecture team.
Qualifications/Requirements
- A university graduate with degree in Business or Technology - related discipline;
- Understanding of the retail banking and wealth management industry, including products, competitive landscape, regulatory environment, and digitalization/innovation trends
- Agile Ways of Operating, operational Value Streams, and Business Architecture frameworks.
- Ability to grasp complex business and technology problems and design solutions to address these, understanding of technical design of digital capabilities across the layers of the technology stack.
- Analytical skills to derive insight from large amounts of imperfect data and information.
- Ability to take a commercial stance when evaluating architecture decisions.
- Defining, establishing, and communicating new/improved governance and processes
- Preparing executive presentations to support decision making.
- Coordinating and/or leading decision-making forums
- Knowledge of HSBC and WPB environment including strategy, products, processes, technology, and people
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong stakeholder management / Relationship Management, with the ability to interact with and influence Senior Leaders as needed.
- Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture.
- Able to think laterally and take a pragmatic approach to issue resolution when necessary.
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and problems.
- Capacity to work on multiple projects and prioritise effectively.
- Highly motivated and able to work independently, under pressure and proactively in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines.
- Demonstrate strong teamwork.
- Experience of working in a global environment, working across cultures and matrix structures, ability to embrace diversity.
- Positive, proactive, and can-do attitude.
Opening up a world of opportunity
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Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.
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