Principal Platform Architect

-Job description

**Some careers have more impact than others.**

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 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 **Principal Platform Architect - Master Mechanic**.**

**Location: Pune or Hyderabad**

This role will typically be accountable for architecture for all Platforms within a given BU / Domain.

Provide hands-on technical leadership in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by the leadership of the DevOps team.

Ensure service resilience, service sustainability, and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.

**Principal responsibilities**:
**Customers and Stakeholders**

**Manages CIO / CTO/Chief Architect** level stakeholders. Challenges status-co and understands **industry trends** to benchmark. Works closely with SRE, engineering and architecture to drive the resiliency and engineering excellence across WPB.

**Leadership and Teamwork**
- Thinks beyond the obvious. Gets the full E2E picture, understand the low-level details of the platform fitness. Leads by example, hand-on experience is required. Challenges self and others towards improvement and optimization of WPB platforms.
- Owns every outcome related to the platform alongside the platform CTO. Forms networks and ensures the WPB estate of platforms stay in sync.
- Bridges gap between EA and SA w.r.t Platforms in remit. Key stakeholder in QBRs alongside VS Leads / Principal architects for platforms in their remit.
- Excellent technology acumen and business knowledge. Create, align, and influence investments towards roadmaps.
- Platform Architect must have the ability to collaborate with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service's direction. They should provide technical leadership in identifying and resolving all incidents associated with the IT service.

**Major Challenges**
- Resiliency improvement, optimization, and technical leadership for WPB critical assets.
Requirements

**Requirements**:

- A university graduates. Graduates from an international top university highly preferred, MS or PhD preferred. Prior experience in platform architecture or similar role.
- Hands-on engineering capabilities is a must. Proven contribution to international academic and industrial communities and/or open-source communities will be a huge advantage.

**Business**:

- Business knowledge in financial services industry (retail, wealth management, insurance) is preferred.
- Strong communication skill in both verbal and written form; capability of delivering effective presentation to teammates and external and internal stakeholders.
- Be able to work across multiple domains of knowledge and skills, and share knowledge across the team.

**Technical**:

- Full stack software engineering capability including front-end, middleware, backend is a must.
- Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills; excellent team player with ability to work under pressure with mínimal supervision.
- Commitment to the resiliency vision, attention to details and willing to dedicate efforts.

**Other**:

- Be a contributor in the process of business strategy definition, a trust advisor for CIOs and COOs.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

**Issued By HSBC Software development (India) Private LTD