Associate Director, Solution Architecture

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Solution Architecture.

Business:CTO Platforms

Req ID: 56389

Principal Responsibilities

• Strategy definition of our target state foundation platforms
• Design scalable, secure and resilient solutions utilizing modern foundation platforms (e.g. private/hybrid/public cloud)
• Define and maintain architecture and technology roadmaps for service hosting platforms
• Provide architectural leadership for cloud services across Insurance service domains
• Provide detailed design guidance to engineering teams for both cloud & on-premises setups
• Work with the wider HSBC organization to drive Insurance specific priorities for foundation platforms
• Ability to create clear, concise proposals for solutions and brokering agreement across multiple stakeholders. Strong experience of working with senior stakeholders across multiple disciplines; business analysts, product owners, testing teams and wider technical stakeholders
• Define and align a vision, but with the ability to deliver incrementally and provide immediate value to the stakeholders
• Ability to convert requirements into actionable architectural artifacts
• Ability to understand and further explain complex technical concepts, and ensure these are appropriately documented and presented in a style suitable of the audience to understand

• Sound knowledge of artificial intelligence, and interaction of Large Language Models
• Experience in an enterprise environment including an understanding of traditional & modern processes and procedures and how they may impact a digital transformation.
• Have an in-depth functional and non-functional knowledge of cloud platforms & native services, specifically AWS and GCP
• Understanding of modern development and associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and practices to design, build and continuously improve an automated end-to-end factory for software delivery, through the route-to-live and into production.
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines, modern deployment and release methodologies including automated configuration and provisioning at scale; knowledge of scanning tooling and associated pipeline functions
• In depth knowledge of container-based services, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with microservice architectures
• Knowledge of both relational and no SQL database technologies; Middleware, and associated API technologies; hosting patterns; identity and access management; IP data networking, including adaptive solutions such as firewalls and proxies; performance management and tuning; serverless technologies

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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