Solution Design Engineer

• Working with outsourced SaaS provider to deliver complex enterprise ecosystems and solves high-level strategic issues, and define strategic directions of the business architecture, which then leads to an understanding of what technology facilities are needed to support that architecture
• Assess the viability of new requests and provide validated proposals and solutions to the business that meet business requirements, align with IT strategy and maximise reuse opportunities
• Use approved processes for Solutions Proposals for large and/or complex propositions working with Vendor prior to starting onboarding process on any Application for IT service onboarding
• keep current knowledge and awareness of industry best practices and relevant technological innovation
• Demonstrate excellent analytical skills to ensure business problems are questioned and understood and the solutions are cost effective and timely
• Translate business requirements into system requirements using the appropriate terminology to facilitate the progression of a project through discovery and definition phases
• Articulate and identify non-functional requirements and any relevant IT compliance issues
• Provide business driven IT consultancy, giving information about potential technology solutions, costs and timescales to enable the business management team to make informed choices about their investments in IT
• Participate in architectural governance processes when required
• Establish suitable technical relationships with significant vendors, with a view to assisting in issue resolution and understanding vendor IT roadmaps
• Report on task progress and identify and raise any issues/risks, escalating as appropriate to enable satisfactory resolution
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders by consistently meeting and delivering upon their business needs
• demonstrating and being respected for your domain knowledge
• Advise and educate IT on business needs, providing business input for technology solutions to the appropriate IT entities and instruct the IT organisation in the nature of their business relationship and requirements
• Provide solutions analysis services to Senior Management and their business partners to advise, influence and help define propositions and Initial Requests
• Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets
• Provide technical assistance to delivery teams on escalation, determine technical options and solutions for implementation by the teams
• Be knowledgeable about HSBC business needs, the businesses of competitors and emerging trends in the industry landscape
• Actively promote and enable working with Global colleagues
• Proactively interact with and provide support to delivery partners to ensure the needs of the business are met, while at the same time, understanding technical implications
• Provide leadership, direction and motivation for those involved in more junior Analysis roles
• Proactively undertake additional tasks and participate in architectural initiatives across the Enterprise

• At least 8 years of experience in a development engineering role for Web applications and SAAS based application
• At least 5 years of experience in to architect related role including leadership responsibilities
• Through experience in Writing SDDs
• Working with Technical Design approval committee
• Working with IT service owners
• Authoring Architecture diagrams and documents
• Being obsessed with data - i.e. being cognisant around applications interfaces and understanding dataflows
• Must have experience with enterprise saas applications
• knowledge of IWMS or similar would be an advantage
• Understanding APIs
• Deep understanding and ability to talk convincingly through ideas centred around modern digital enterprises such as product centric org structures, pod based delivery model, deep understanding of DevOps, micro-services, containerization, server-less, head-less and hybrid hosting patterns such as private, public cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS/ Cloud /SAAS)
• Proven strong skills with ability to formulate conceptual solutions to business problems and carry them through to complete, production-ready designs
• Experience in understanding client requirements, proven results in consultative selling approach
• Demonstrable experience with security and risk analysis, understanding of current web security design practices
• Proven leadership qualities with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong oral, written and interpersonal skills, strong executive presentation and persuasion skills

knowledge of IWMS or similar

• Flexible working
• Continuous professional development
• Opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment