Head of MSS IT Tech China [China]

 

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Head of MSS IT Tech China.

Business: Markets Sec Services IT

Principal responsibilities

Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders

• Work closely with colleagues across MSS IT to ensure appropriate resource planning in alignment with project delivery demands balanced with the Future State Architecture

• Help Regional CIO and Asset Class IT heads manage their China-based stakeholders

• Ensure appropriate resource mix and maintain effective relationships with local suppliers, managing local ongoing engagements as required

• Representation of MSS IT at country & regional level forums.

• As needed, engage with the local regulatory bodies regarding their enquiries or assessments of Markets or Banking technology at HSBC Bank China

• Represent MSS IT costs, risks, stability and conduct in appropriate county-wide IT forums.

• Lead initiatives and deliver global asset-class priorities in addition to running the MSS IT China development centre.

Leadership & Teamwork

• Motivate, guide and mentor the MSS IT China leadership team

• Drive broader employee engagement across MSS IT China

• Help to ensure that the teams are appropriately resourced for the challenges faced

• Manage all entity aspects of the MSS IT China team

• Assist in the development the leadership team, providing knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise, providing coaching and sponsoring training solutions where necessary

• Assist in the control of concurrent projects and resources that may vary in scale and complexity to meet changing objectives

• Manage relationships at a senior level with the wider HSBC IT team; as well as engaging and managing relationships with third party suppliers

• Collaborate with Regional CIO and Asset Class IT Heads ensure an effective succession plan is in place for the China leadership team.

Requirements

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications

• Ensure the highest standards and continuing the transformation of engineering disciplines and capabilities across MSS IT China.

• Transition to Net Zero: Sustainable software engineering – champion and build a sustainable mindset towards the way we deliver technological solutions

• Support the MSS IT global leadership team in delivering the MSS IT Engineering Strategy by managing the Engineering Teams for application development, remediation, and service management for all non-GBGF CIO owned solutions/services in country

• Responsible for building and nurturing a world-class engineering practice capability to attract, develop and retain engineering talent and champions our adoption of leading-edge software development practices with a culture of continuous improvement.

• Maintain a business value-led, focus on the customer, forward-looking mindset on new and emerging technologies in order to guide and advise on timely and practical adoption.

• At least 15 years in IT management, with 10 years’ experience working with senior/executive management, across different geographies & functional areas

• Strong experience of the Investment Banking domain

• Ability to navigate complex global environment

• Engineering/technology delivery background using DevSecOps, even better if obtained across multiple domains and ideally within a matrixed organization

• Experience of managing external vendor relationships

• Highly literate, with the ability to distil complex business concepts into simple language

• Comfortable operating in both agile and waterfall software development environments (and variations in between)

• Able to navigate ambiguity and distil clear messages and goals within a matrixed organisation

• Highly articulate, with excellent communication skills

• Self-starter, with a desire to own the resolution to the problem

• Learning mindset – able to quickly learn processes, systems, policies to the point of designing changes or compatible solutions

• Experience of functional project management and successful delivery of technical solutions for business / stakeholders

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About HSBC Technology China

We develop, implement and support software and IT services and processes that allow HSBC to remain at the forefront of high-quality banking systems.

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