Technology Programme Management Office/Consultant Specialist

Job description

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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 Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will

• Risk and issue monitoring and escalation
• Planning and overseeing project and programme level reporting
• Management and monitoring of project governance arrangements
• Monitor, report and manage budgets and expenditure
• Implement project standards across projects
• Overseeing activities such as disseminating information, drafting presentations and documents file and document management
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for developmental activity for junior team members
• Provides expertise and best practice on agile practices, shares knowledge, lessons learned, templates, advice on tools such as Jira, Jenkins and Ansible, DevOps practices, asset capitalisation guidance, Agile engineering practices guidance
• Undertakes Quality assurance checks throughout the technology project lifecycle and benefits realisation.
• Contributes to the wider technology practice – shares insights from quality assurance and lessons learnt as to where the group lacks consistency
• Overseeing and ensuring that administrative tasks and systems updating activities in line with procedures which operate in the respective area
• Mange the project approach, building stakeholder buy-in around the project plan, commitments and changes.
• Support Technology teams to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications, budget
• Work with the Technology team and Product Owner to drive improvements in productivity through backlog management, maturity in the use of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and corresponding management of dependencies
• Provide management to maintain a focus on how the project aligns to wider programme objectives, where appropriate, and to the change portfolio across HSBC
• Manage, monitor and report progress, issues, dependencies, risks to the programme management, internal stakeholders and/or steering committees. Make recommendations to influence decision-making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation
• Enforce process discipline and improvements in areas of expertise, such as: disciplined agile software delivery, production support processes, continuous DevOps pipelines development.
• Help in the development and running of the programme management office or project management practice.
• Ensure adherence to standard controls and drives teams to achieve compliance and framework, capability management, Security controls and technology architecture designs
• Establish effective governance and controls, in line with Business Transformation Framework and coordination of cross technology teams, cross Global Business/Global Functions delivery

Requirements

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

• Extensive project management skills and experience of managing large and complex projects
• Strong people manager and broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams
• Exposure to manager diverse global team is desired.
• Multiple strong examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes –a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes
• In depth experience of working in a banking environment
• Good stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running proProgramme Management Office (PMO) Jobs will be located in projects of a variety of sizes, which are single or multiple work stream, have country or global dimension, and be of both narrow and broad scope. The principal accountability of PMO jobs is to support the Programme Management Office in carrying out project monitoring, governance and reporting activities.
• PMO jobs would not have any direct reports but may be supported by administration staff and may report to Programme or Project Managers.
• PMO jobs will hold most or all of these responsibilities:
• Tracking statuses of project deliverables and milestones
• Risk and issue monitoring and co-ordination
• Coordination of the regular project and programme level reporting
• Co-ordination of project governance arrangements
• Manage the collection, collation and processing of project information from stakeholders
• Monitor and report on budgets and expenditure
• Assist with the implementation of project standards across projects
• Managing and updating project documentation, process documents and information sourcesject governance Implementation, change management and benefits realization

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India