Overview
The role of the Sustainability Platform Lead is essentially about being a technical guide who helps integrate sustainability into the technology platforms and systems at HSBC. This involves using your broad experience across different technology areas to find practical solutions that can be applied now and in the future. You’ll act like an internal consultant, using your technical skills to understand various options and turn strategic ideas into actionable plans that make our technology choices more sustainable. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for creating a long-term plan and framework to ensure sustainability is a key part of our technology design moving forward. This role is ideal for someone with a background in technology consulting, architecture, or engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Generate Chief Technical Office infrastructure and platform perspectives and translate customer needs into platform and infrastructure requirements that incorporate sustainability considerations.
- Act as a bridge between customer needs and provider capabilities to identify opportunities for sustainability in current and future initiatives.
- Turn strategic thinking into viable business cases for change and act as a thought leader on the sustainability agenda in infrastructure and architecture activities.
- Outline requirements for CTO platforms with sustainability and cost considerations.
- Support strategic interactions and determine necessary strategic changes.
- Participate in calls to offer immediate thoughts and recommendations.
Key Skills:
- Critical thinking with the ability to engage and influence up to senior executive levels.
- Strategic solution architecture thinking with the ability to analyse requirements.
- Understanding of sustainability in a technology context and awareness of industry technology trends and the external environment.
- Technical acumen to understand and determine different optionality in requirements being developed.
- Understanding of how enterprise infrastructure and platforms work.
- Experience with containerization, virtualization, and cloud technologies.
- Ability to conduct cost modelling and determine business case viability.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:
Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500
