# IT Strategic Projects Leader

**Company**: HKEX
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The IT Strategic Projects team at HKEX is responsible for delivering large-scale transformation initiatives that are critical to the company's long-term business strategy. The team plays a pivotal role throughout the initiative lifecycle, from program inception and delivery through to platform transition and ongoing business enablement.

The successful candidate will have end-to-end accountability for the delivery of one or more large-scale, strategic programs and portfolios. The role requires the ability to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels, balancing business priorities, technology delivery, regulatory obligations, market readiness, and organizational change.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the successful delivery of large-scale strategic initiatives

- Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks covering scope, schedule, budget, risk, dependencies, and benefits realization

- Proactively identify, assess, and manage program risks, issues, and interdependencies

- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across business, technology, operations, risk, legal, compliance, and corporate function

- Present recommendations, delivery updates, and strategic considerations to executive committees and senior leadership forums

- Drive informed decision-making through clear reporting, analysis, and executive-level insights

- Define and maintain integrated portfolio views across strategic initiatives, enabling leadership visibility on progress, risks, dependencies, resource requirements, and delivery outcomes

- Champion best practices in program governance, planning, delivery management, and execution excellence

- Lead engagement with regulators, market participants, industry bodies, and internal stakeholders

- Define and execute the transition from program delivery into sustainable platform management and business-as-usual operations

- Lead, coach, and develop team members, fostering a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional qualification

- Minimum 15 years of experience within financial services, financial market infrastructure, exchanges, clearing houses, capital markets, or related industries

- Experience with risk management and post trade functions, including risk management pricing and margining methodologies

- Demonstrated success in leading and delivering complex, multi-year transformation programs

- Strong experience engaging with executive leadership, regulators, and market participants

- Proven track record of developing high-performing talent

- Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and communication skills

- Ability to simplify complex issues and present recommendations clearly to senior executives

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities

- Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced and highly regulated environment

- Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools and modern delivery practices to improve program management effectiveness would be advantageous

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and SharePoint

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- post trade functions
- program management
- governance frameworks
- stakeholder management
- communication skills
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- decision-making skills
- Microsoft Office applications

### Nice to have
- AI-enabled tools
- modern delivery practices

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