Senior Enterprise Architect

HSBC Group; Liversedge; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Job summary

HSBC Group in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to lead the transformation across Credit and Capital Management. You will shape roadmaps, translate business capabilities into architectural components, and partner with solution and technical leaders to deliver modern, open-architecture platforms.

You will work across cloud-native services, microservices, data/AI capabilities, and APIs, ensuring legacy systems remain stable while scalable cloud solutions support

Qualifications

• Proficient enterprise / solution architecture with design skills.
• Ability to build high-level proposals and articulate pros/cons in business terms.
• Analysing requirements and translating business capability into functional components.
• Effective communication for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience using agile methods in complex environments.
• Experience designing cloud services (GCP/Azure).
• Breadth across modern and legacy tech stacks including Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, API gateways, REST, Kafka and React.

Responsibilities

• Build a thorough understanding of existing and target business functions, processes and assets.
• Translate target capabilities into functional components and clear boundaries.
• Drive technical realisation of functional components with Solution Architects and Technical Leads.
• Engage vendors to assess suitability of potential vendor components.
• Define implementation/adoption roadmaps that maintain service continuity and realise benefits early.
• Provide business knowledge to Architecture and Engineering teams, including legacy systems insight.
• Demonstrate leadership on regulatory & compliance, risk awareness, and reporting.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Business capability mapping

Stakeholder communication

Agile experience

Cloud architecture

Microservices

API gateways (Kong)

React

Kafka

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Kafka

React

Kong API Gateway

Cloud platforms (GCP/Azure)

Job description

About the role

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Enterprise Architect. CIB IT delivers technology that powers banking services for corporate, commercial and global banking clients, providing a comprehensive set of capabilities to meet clients' needs worldwide. Within this, Credit and Capital Management is on a major global transformation programme, with significant investment to modernise platforms and deliver industry-leading solutions for customers and colleagues. You'll partner with business architects to translate target business processes and functions into functional components and the interactions between them, then work with solution architects and technical leads to shape delivery roadmaps and drive implementation and adoption. You'll operate in a large, complex environment spanning legacy technologies from multiple eras, ensuring business-critical systems remain stable while new, modern components, built with open architecture, APIs and microservices, data/ML capabilities, and cloud where appropriate are introduced progressively to support Commercial Banking growth ambitions.

Responsibilities

In this role you'll:

• Build a thorough understanding of existing and target business functions, processes and assets
• Understand how current systems/components enable those capabilities, with particular focus on problem areas
• Partner with Business Architects to translate target capabilities into functional components and clear functional boundaries
• Drive technical realisation of functional components, working with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to map functional components into the right UI, processing, data, and messaging designs
• Engage vendors to assess suitability (or otherwise) of potential vendor components
• Work with business and programme management to define implementation/adoption roadmaps that maintain service continuity and realise benefits early
• Provide business knowledge to Solution/Technical Architecture and Engineering teams, and legacy systems knowledge to Business/Solution/Technical Architects
• Demonstrate leadership on Regulatory & Compliance maintain awareness of operational risk and support identification, mitigation, control and reporting

Requirements

• Proficient Enterprise / solution architecture including design skills with ability to produce fit for purpose solution designs following best practices
• Ability to build high-level proposals (e.g., Clear Choice) and clearly articulate pros/cons in business terms to enable sound decisions
• Skilled in analysing requirements and translating business capability into functional components and architecture
• Effective graphical, written and verbal communication for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience using agile methods, understanding their limitations, and knowing how to overcome them in complex environments
• Experience designing/implementing highly scalable, highly available cloud services (e.g., GCP/Azure)
• Breadth across modern + legacy technology stacks such as Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, API gateways (Kong), REST, Kafka, React
• Familiarity with large-scale transformation using analytics and AI/ML

Career & Culture

Opening up a world of opportunity. 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, socio-economic background 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.

Benefits

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