Sr Associate Director Product Development

Job Description

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Product Development

In this role you will:

• Work as a technocrat in driving product planning, roadmap development, feature slicing, feasibility assessments, and high-level design of RB&S MENAT systems or subsystems. Lead, govern, manage and deliver technology capabilities for RB&S Tech MENAT as techno functional SVS Solution Analyst.
• Being the pioneer in establishing synergy between various stake holders for lending and transaction banking projects.
• Ensure that non-functional requirements are clearly understood, rationale for holistic design & its components are provided, designs are peer reviewed and approved through the relevant Architecture Governance processes.
• Collaborate with business, technical architecture and other stakeholders to identify product / customer requirements, assess impacts to other data and systems, consider available technologies, perform cost-benefit study and recommend solutions, collaborating closely with the engineering team in building out new features.
• Work with business entities, partners, and service providers in providing technical solutions best suited for business initiatives, and act as the key point of contact for the WPB RB&S Technology Business in MENAT region.
• Assess solution viability and recommend strategies and tactics to satisfy customer needs, championing and articulating the merit of each, defending in funding and prioritization both to IT and the Business.
• Work with Group IT Product work streams and Architecture to align and adopt strategic platforms and products for regional deployments while adhering to the Group’s enterprise architecture, FIM and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee execution of project delivery with respect to the achievement of the defined product roadmap and approved investment commitments and architectural guidelines
• Understand the budget assigned and work with the programme to raise and control change as necessary, through strong Change Management adherence.
• Work with project working group and Steerco stakeholders, collaborate and influence senior management and business partners for all key programme plans, commitments, and changes.
• Manage activities focused on the deployment of projects from requirements gathering, system design, quality assurance cost control and implementation planning activities as well as post implementation activities.
• Reliable, dependable individual, able to monitor and report on the product roadmap and intervene when projects go off track and additionally will also continually re-assess the likelihood of operational risk occurring for project deliveries. Proactively managing risk and issues to increase delivery assurance of WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology projects.
• Ensure consistent Software Engineering, Software Deployments and Architecture Compliance within the region for all WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology Systems, holding teams to the highest standards as per Region and Group requirements.
• Act in accordance with Group standards for methodology, technical design, and security. Review and ensure compliance of the processes / activities managed under responsibility with compliance requirements.
  
  

Requirements

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

• Essential skills for this role include but is not limited to strong knowledge around Cards and Loans Products, Vision Plus processing platform, Credit Control services including decision systems, Mobile and Internet Banking centric borrowing and servicing capabilities, Domestic and International Payments systems, Credit Bureau etc and conversant on various surround applications such as HUB, Staff Channels, Customer Channels, Data & Messaging, Utilities, Alerts, Operations, BI systems, external interfaces like Visa, MasterCard, Central Bank Schemes, ATM and Payment networks etc. along with knowledge on products, features and services offered.
• Graduate or higher qualification in an IT discipline with 10+ years of technology experience in WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology covering Cloud Foundry (PCF), Mule soft, Service monitoring, and dynamic/technical platforms in line with group future state architecture.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, strong understanding of modern API’s enablement, RESTful services, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, building services, technical product development, and project management
• Experience of managing 3rd party vendor agencies and consultancies
• Have experience working with Agile lifecycle, tracking and process management tools, e.g. Rally, JIRA
• Ability to work in an unstructured and changing environment, competent at managing an ever-changing backlog and can pivot on strategy and priorities when business needs arise
• Working with requirements gathering and journey mapping, working directly with business stakeholders. Able to articulate how these requirements are elaborated and validated
• Owning, managing, and organizing requirements catalogues and processes
• Customer focused, results-based approach, able to deliver to deadlines.
• Understanding of how the changing regulatory environment has impacts on the WPB Retail Banking and Strategy Technology product design process
• Good knowledge of IT policies and practices combined with IT hardware, software, operations, and networks experience
• Excellent negotiation and diplomatic problem-solving skills to resolve issues across functional areas and between the organization and external parties.
• Proven ability to rapidly build relationships with key stakeholders, selectively communicating technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and an understanding of how to work with global teams to be effective across video conferencing, email, messaging, time zones
• Ability to influence teams to think "outside" the box and look at solutions/approaches outside traditional comfort zones
• Able to broker agreement between IT and the business in a tactful and non-aggressive way
• Ability to question and reduce costs without impacting on quality of delivery
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Energetic, positive attitude and team player, having a sense of urgency and enthusiasm in developing a best-in-class product.
  
  

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India

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