Senior Business Architecture Lead

HSBC Holdings plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc is seeking a Senior Business Architecture Lead to translate our Business Architecture direction into practical delivery across the GCOO, aligning strategic priorities with target-state outcomes.

You will apply and improve standards, frameworks and tools, provide senior advisory to strategic programmes, and work across business, operations, technology, data, architecture and transformation teams to resolve issues and drive measurable benefits.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Business Architecture, Architecture, Business Analysis or Transformation within a large, complex financial institution.
• Familiarity with recognised Business Architecture frameworks and modelling techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability translating complex problems into clear options.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate Business Architecture direction into practical delivery across GCOO.
• Develop evidence-based capability assessments, heatmaps and roadmap options to inform investment prioritisation.
• Provide senior Business Architecture advisory into strategic programmes and cross-functional teams.
• Represent Business Architecture in delegated governance forums and working groups.

Skills

Business Architecture

Architecture

Business Analysis

Transformation

Stakeholder Management

Job description

If you're looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further. The Senior Business Architecture Lead supports the Director of Business Architecture to translate our Business Architecture direction into practical delivery across GCOO. The focus is on aligning strategic priorities, change initiatives and target-state outcomes so we deliver measurable benefits through simplification, capacity creation and stronger controls.

The role applies and continuously improves Business Architecture standards, practices and core artefacts, helping to ensure consistent adoption and high-quality outputs across priority change. You'll provide senior Business Architecture expertise into strategic programmes and cross-functional teams, shaping scalable solutions and clear roadmaps that connect strategy to execution.

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role you'll Support translation of Business Architecture direction into practical delivery across GCOO aligned to strategic priorities and target-state outcomes Apply and continuously improve Business Architecture standards, frameworks, principles, templates and tools to increase adoption and output quality Own defined Business Architecture workstreams producing current-state, target-state, capability, value-stream, operating-model and roadmap outputs Provide senior Business Architecture advice into strategic programmes identifying capability needs, impacts, dependencies, options and design decisions Partner across business, operations, technology, data, architecture and transformation teams to resolve issues and elevate significant conflicts Develop evidence-based capability assessments, heatmaps and roadmap options to inform investment prioritisation, trade-offs and sequencing Identify simplification, standardisation and reuse opportunities contributing to consolidation, decommissioning and capacity-creation roadmaps Embed risk and control-by-design into Business Architecture outputs ensuring material risks, issues and dependencies are visible in governance Incorporate data, automation and AI-enabled redesign into target states and roadmaps with Technology and Data partners Represent Business Architecture in delegated governance forums, committees and working groups providing clear analysis and decision materials

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements Demonstrable experience in Business Architecture, Architecture, Business Analysis or Transformation within a large, complex financial institution Practical capability across business capabilities, operating models, value streams, processes and business and technology change applied to complex initiatives Proven experience applying and improving standards, frameworks, templates and methodologies with focus on quality, adoption and usability Established track record providing senior Business Architecture advisory and managing workstreams for complex strategic programmes Familiarity with recognised Business Architecture frameworks and modelling techniques supported by relevant certification, or equivalent certification, or equivalent demonstrable experience Ability to develop analysis and recommendations that support investment prioritisation and senior decision-making Experience operating in governance environments managing dependencies and escalating issues appropriately Strength in stakeholder management and influencing with sound judgement to operate independently within agreed remit and engage senior stakeholders Strong analytical and problem-solving capability translating complex problems into clear options, recommendations and architecture outputs Strong communication and facilitation skills building alignment across diverse stakeholder groups and escalating decisions succinctly