Global Procurement Architecture Lead

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Our global businesses serve more than 40 million customers worldwide through a network that covers 63 countries and territories.

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. is HSBC's global finance, operations, risk and technology centre. We use our unique expertise and capabilities to provide specialised services – our people range from technologists transforming the banking experience to operations professionals managing 1.7 trillion payments a year.

Our Purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. We are bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of defining, implementing and leading Business change preferably (not mandatory) in the financial services industries.
• Experienced in defining/designing large scale change. Technology transformation experience of global deployments in a banking environment.
• People leadership experience. Ability to drive culture change and engagement.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences including boards/senior executive management.
• Ability to develop new and adapt existing processes for increased quality and efficiency whilst encouraging others to seek new ideas/solutions to day-to-day problems.
• Experience working across breadth of architecture covering Business, Application, Data, Technology architecture domains across a complex domain.
• Relationships - Global Businesses & Global Functions COOs; Other DCOO Function Heads; Key partnerships with Strategic Vendors.
• Strategic Importance - High: Champion the development and implementation of HSBC’s Business Architecture on behalf of Global Business/Global Functions COOs & Heads of IT.
• Regulatory & Risk - Sustains a risk-aware culture across all Global Businesses and Global Functions in their allocated region through design processes and governance mechanisms. Communicates changes in architecture policy and governance effectively.

• Define, maintain and own the business architecture for an allocated Programme or business area ensuring compliance with group strategy, standards, and policies.
• Ensure complete join-up between the business, the central Business Architiecture practice and technology architecture with respect to an allocated Programme or business area.
• Input to the future direction and ways of working for Group Business Architecture.
• Lead and own the development and implementation of architecture strategy and standards for an allocated Programme or business area.
• Introduce new practices, processes, operating model, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies.
• Support the business to define a coherent change portfolio that enables delivery of an allocated Programme or business area strategies and then decomposing the portfolio into requirements that can be delivered.
• Stay abreast of business and architecture trends and advise the business about potential benefits/impacts.