Sustainability Platform Lead

HSBC USA Inc.; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the United Kingdom is looking for a Sustainability Platform Lead to drive sustainability initiatives in technology platforms. The ideal candidate will have a background in technology consulting or architecture and will engage with senior executives to integrate sustainability in strategy and execution. This is a full-time position with responsibilities including creating sustainable requirements and acting as a strategic advisor. Competitive salary and benefits are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in technology consulting, architecture, or engineering.
• Ability to engage and influence senior executives.
• Familiarity with industry technology trends.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into sustainable platform requirements.
• Act as a bridge between customer needs and provider capabilities.
• Develop viable business cases for sustainability changes.
• Outline sustainability requirements for CTO platforms.
• Support strategic interactions related to sustainability.
• Participate in discussions offering recommendations.

Skills

Critical thinking

Strategic solution architecture

Understanding of sustainability in technology

Technical acumen

Enterprise infrastructure understanding

Containerization and virtualization experience

Cost modeling abilities

Job description

Sustainability Platform Lead

Role Purpose

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations 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 realise their ambitions. 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 will 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.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces – no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Contact

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