HSBC Group

A Career with Hang Seng Bank 

Hang Seng is committed to service excellence. Our people are our most important asset and play a vital role in our efforts to continually enhance our performance for customers and provide best-in-class products and services.  We seek to attract high-calibre talent by offering a dynamic working environment, good career development opportunities and competitive compensation packages. 

DBS - Information Technology

Principal responsibilities

The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for the following activities:

• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance, optimization and planning of HASE’s application portfolio and technology landscape, with the objectives to provide fit for purpose, high performing, resilient, secure and cost effective solution to support and align with business priorities
• Proactively engage with business partners to understand priorities, provide preliminary solution and cost estimation. Demonstrate and show business value of enterprise wide, shared infrastructure or to show value of any new strategic platforms being considered.
• Responsible for creating & refining technology solution, architecture designs and patterns, with alignment and adoption of Group technology standards and policies, by taking into account of HASE’s own needs and comply with Regulatory and Compliance requirements
• Responsible for ensuring the architecture solution adhere to agreed architecture standards, principles and the overall roadmap, as part of architecture governance
• Introduce new practices, processes, operating models, techniques, products, services, technologies and standards where needed against identified use cases, via the appropriate governance bodies
• Responsible for the timely maintenance and freshness of the enterprise landscape, target state architecture, technology stack and capability model
• Act as the virtual leader in the collaboration with architects from other domains to provide enterprise solutions. Work to settle architecture differences or conflicts existing across the various architecture layers in the enterprise.
• Evangelize and promote service oriented architecture, integration and other architecture principles, benefits and technical solutions to business and technical audiences. 
• Work with project business and technical staff to capture and validate integration requirements for the project, using industry standard integration and service oriented architecture
• Stay abreast of technology trends and advise Technology and the business about potential benefits/impact

• Degree or above in a technology, engineering or science related disciplines.
• Minimum 5 years hands on application design or solution architect experience. Exposure on critical projects related to financial service is preferred
• In-depth knowledge in one or more technology domains: digital, mobile, data, analytic, API and Cloud Computing.
• TOGAF certificate would be an advantage.
• Expert level of relevant IT architecture, strategy or solution design experience in delivery role in financial services environment.
• Proven ability and experience to work with senior stakeholders and business sponsors to make strategic recommendations and transformation roadmap planning. Presenting to large technical audiences, and business governance boards.
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• Diverse experience and a variety of skills related to supporting large and complex change including people, process and technology development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with strong oral, written and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, negotiation, influencing skills and possess logical and critical thinking in architecture. Business thinking and highly strategic in order to define practical solutions that align with corporate strategy
• Proficiency in both English and Chinese, Putonghua speaking is an advantage.

If you would like to explore other opportunities at Hang Seng Hong Kong, please visit www.hangseng.com/careers/ for details.

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we’re leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group.  As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey.  If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.