Tech Project Manager/Associate Director, Software Engineering

Job description

Job description

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering

Markets & Securities Services (MSS) Technology, a global function of 6500+ Tech professionals work in partnership with the business who rely on us for delivering innovative, robust, stable platforms to enable their investment and financial solutions for clients. These include both vendor-based products and a number of award winning in-house primary trading systems. We have a long-term vision for MSS Tech – a future state of architecture that is strategic and disciplined, that enables future updates and costs less. We also have objectives to constantly improve the way we deliver, with our main focus on further integrating DevOps into our business model.

This role will sit within Equities and Securities Financing (ESF) Technology, which is a global department within MSS Technology and has teams in London, Paris, Poland, New York, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Pune – supporting businesses covering Cash Equities, Electronic Trading, Delta One and Flow Trading, Equity Derivatives, Prime Finance, and Futures.  The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our business and increase the speed and quality of delivery.  We are adopting a Value Stream model of working, driving agile delivery through a strong product ownership group.
The role will have multiple, related, dimensions which contribute to strengthening the ESF Technology change delivery.

In this role, you will:

The Individual must be:

·  Driven – demonstrate a proactive professional service ethic, and use it to drive results.
·  Adaptable – be a fast-learning problem solver who is comfortable with ambiguity and can manage through it.
·  Credible – display high EQ, able to navigate a complex organisation, develop domain knowledge and influence stakeholders.
·  Skilled – have broad mastery of end-to-end change management skills.
·  Working within the ESF Portfolio Team to support the oversight and support of a ~900 FTE technology organization
·  Managing multiple facets of the change lifecycle for one of more critical change initiatives including, but not limited to, the mandatory technology book of work covering evergreening and service sustainability (SSP) and the centralization of Germany IT onto group technology platforms (Ellipse).
·  Support the implementation of a value stream product centric delivery model; oversee risks, issues and dependencies; assess their impact and take action to minimize that impact. 
·  Support the Group Reporting standards and Change Framework and provide support to the department to ensure adherence across the portfolio.

Requirements

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

·  A broad view of global organizations and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
·  Proven ability in successfully identifying, designing and implementing global / regional change initiatives.
·  Proven ability in working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural work environments.
·  Strong analytical background and proven ability in analytical rigor, including being able to contextualize data into business activities and conclusions.
·  Evidence of successfully managing financial and resource plans, and addressing related challenges
·  Knowledge of the Equities and Securities Financing business lines 
·  Experience of Agile ways of working 

Capabilities

·  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels.
·  Ability to innovate and iterate to drive continuation improvement.
·  High level of drive and motivation to ensure successful delivery of complex transformational initiatives.
·  Appreciation of, and the ability to leverage external forces – regulatory, political, competitors, innovation etc.
·  Ability to leverage resources available to achieve goals.
·  The ability to recognize opportunities in organization structure or redundancies which require addressing.
·  The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
·  Organizational and planning skills in order to cope with multiple responsibilities across multiple un-related topics.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India