Lead Enterprise Cloud Architect
HSBC is looking for a step change in how we can leverage approved Cloud Services in a seamless way and the establishment of the Cloud Enterprise Architecture Practise is fundamental for our success to define enterprise architecture, deployment patterns and share best practise.
The Enterprise Architecture Team provides engagement aligned to both specific Cloud Service Providers and technology horizontals. Lead Enterprise Architects are expected to provide technical and non-technical leadership to their assigned areas of focus. As Lead Enterprise Cloud Architect you will be responsible for:
• Defining & evangelising HSBC’s Cloud Strategy
• Provide Enterprise Architecture direction to Cloud Platform Teams
• Ownership of specific technology domains within the Cloud Architecture Practice
• Establishing a close partnership with our Global Business/Global Function CIOs & their Chief Architects to understand their demand through a Cloud Adoption Strategy & Adoption roadmap
• Defining best practise for Cloud adoption, through the creation of an Enterprise Cloud Pattern Framework, enabling self-service with full automation, improving speed of delivery through standardized and robust set of cloud patterns with minimal manual intervention
• Partnering and collaborating with HSBCs development and technology communities to define, evolve and modernise architectures and patterns
• Present to Global Cloud Services in strategic programmes
• Partnering with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Security Architect to support the definition and evolution of a Cloud Security Strategy and its implementation
• Partnering with the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Chief Data Architect to support the definition and evolution of a Cloud Data Strategy and its implementation including enabling faster applications deployment through a set of standardized and secured data paths, patterns and tools
• Partnering with IT Infrastructure Delivery (`cto) Cloud Services team to: engineer and design our Cloud common platform services; define a fully integrated Cloud Services catalogue
• Understanding appropriate Regulatory controls for Financial Institutions and the impact of material outsourcing. Provide appropriate support for our Regulatory engagements
• Ensuring appropriate governance exists underpinning Cloud adoption, ensuring that appropriate regulatory, compliance, security and architecture controls are effectively maintained
In addition, all members of Cloud Architecture Practice are required to:
• Evangelise the Cloud Strategy across HSBC.
Business
Have a high level business understanding of, and the implications of Cloud adoption for:
Wealth and Personal Banking (inc Private Banking)
Markets and Security Service
Commercial Banking
Able to translate business needs into appropriate IT (and Cloud) solutions.
Technical
Have a system engineering background and the ability to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement. Provide technical thought leadership in evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills – desire to solve complex problems at scale. Provide expert knowledge & expertise in design & engineering of:
• Public IaaS/PaaS Cloud (GCP, AWS and Azure)
• Integration with Public Cloud including SaaS (eg authentication schemes, single sign on systems from an application perspective)
• Private Cloud environments (GCP Anthos, Cloud Foundry aPaaS & VMware IaaS)
• Comprehensive experience utilising multiple Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically demonstrable experience of implementing Terraform Enterprise at scale within a large organisation.
• Leveraging best practise through published reference architectures
Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of:
• Docker Containers, Kubernetes Cluster management and orchestration and Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS)
• Serverless architectures and Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)
• Microservice architectures and Event-driven architectures
• DevOps practices and tooling
• Cloud Industry Security Best Practice, aligned to CSA & NIST
• Multi-tenanted virtualized platforms managing mission critical workloads
• Networking principals
• Server Operating systems internals