# Lead Architect

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Architect.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities:

- Rapidly understand business requirements through regular interactions with the CIB Chief Data Office (CDO), business users and other subject matter experts.

- Translate business requirements into solution designs and functional requirements.

- Build technical and logical designs.

- Communicate functional solutions to the development team and provide ongoing support as needed.

- Work closely with the production support team to ensure all new software is well understood and readily supported.

- Actively promote solution architecture, best practice techniques, standards and tools.

- Provide recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions.

- Document and share best practice knowledge for new solutions.

- Advocate for process improvements and help develop solutions.

- Provide technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.

- Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate proposed solutions.

- Review and validate solution designs from other team members.

- Manage and define the detailed end-to-end solution design for products and features.

- Ensure the design of solutions is cost-effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle.

- Ensure the architecture undergoes an appropriate level of assessment throughout the agile process.

- Ensure appropriate governance for any decisions when deviating from reference architectures, strategies, patterns or policies.

- Collaborate with the Enterprise, Platform and Value Stream architects to evolve the architectural strategy and roadmap.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years' experience of working within a large, complex and geographically dispersed organisation as a Solution Architect.

- Ability to think logically and abstract architectural patterns from technical solutions.

- Strong leadership and an ability to articulate, present and obtain approval for solutions.

- Experience with Streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).

- Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices.

- Knowledge of database technologies: SQL / NoSQL.

- Knowledge of Data Warehousing & ETL / data integration aspects.

- Operating Systems & Scripting: Linux, Shell Scripting (Bash, AWK), PowerShell.

- Experience with any cloud platform: GCP, Azure, AWS.

- Experience with Big Data platforms: BQ, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks.

- Knowledge of containerization concepts: Docker, Kubernetes.

- Experience in designing with a good understanding of abstraction techniques.

- Proven analysis skills with the ability to challenge designs / decisions.

- Experience in managing and resolving complex issues using proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to quickly get up to speed with the current data landscape and apply acquired analysis and data skills to new contexts and approaches.

- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.

- Strong planning, organisation and time management skills with a demonstrated ability to work to deadlines.

- Commercial acumen and ability to apply this to Business and IT data requirements.

- Self-awareness and confidence to work independently.

## Skills

### Required
- Solution Architecture
- Streaming technologies
- REST API
- Microservices
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Data Warehousing
- ETL
- Linux
- Shell Scripting
- PowerShell
- Cloud platforms
- Big Data platforms
- Containerization
- Abstraction techniques
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Planning
- Organisation
- Time management

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