Lead Infrastructure Solutions Architect

HSBC Global Services Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job description

Join a digital first bank that’s powered by people.

Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of banking services for our customers around the world.

You’ll have an impact on bringing digital-first banking to our customers by defining the future state architecture vision and strategies for our Global Businesses and Global Functions.

You’ll be developing business, data, software, and integration architecture standards to manage processes, systems, and technology complexity across the HSBC Group. Through dynamic, agile collaboration you’ll work closely with business partners to translate their requirements into integrated solutions that can be deployed globally using consistent service patterns for ease of deployment, support, and enhancement.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role, you will:

1. Deliver high quality Infrastructure Architecture and Solution Designs.
2. Critically review and endorse design artefacts (e.g. patterns) across CTO and Cyber.
3. Be a key part in the teams that co-create, consult and co-design solutions.
4. Play a key role in the evolution and development of the architecture and design disciplines, including governance, training, mentoring and tooling.
5. Able to translate business needs into appropriate technology solution requirements.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

1. System Engineering background.
2. Experience and Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Terraform.
3. Experience in Data centre hardware infrastructure (servers, networking, storage).
4. Proven experience and knowledge of security technologies such as firewalls, HSMs, proxy servers, IDS/IPS, network segmentation tools.
5. Experience and knowledge of Identity Access Management (e.g. Active Directory, LDAP, Privileged Access Management tools).
6. Experience working in cloud technologies such as Google GCP, Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, as well as APIs, Kubernetes and the ecosystem.
7. Experience and knowledge of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus).

This role is based in Birmingham and Sheffield.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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