Strategic Enterprise Architect Cloud, API & AI

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

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