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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.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Storage & Data Protection Services Architect
Key Responsibilities:
You will be a technical lead aligned to our Storage & Data Protection Services infrastructure team. You will be accountable to work with the portfolio and platform architects, technical leads and engineers, to define detailed solution designs (incl. story decomposition) for stories in backlog. You will be a part of a highly skilled, self-organising team whilst building forward-thinking solutions and creating new capabilities to support multiple, cross-functional teams. We are continuously looking to further improve our technology stack, data quality and reliability, and your vision and ambition will contribute to shaping our solutions toward data-driven decisions across the business. The ideal candidate is self-directed, comfortable with challenging and leading on best practice, and able to adapt to regularly shifting business requirements and occasional ambiguity. This is a fast-paced hands-on role and would be well-suited to someone who loves clean design, clean architecture and using the latest tools and technology to tackle constantly evolving business and tech challenges. This role will carry out some or all of the following responsibilities: - Accountable for ensuring the products & services are supported by the right architectures and solutions meet the customer needs. Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities. Working with ops engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc) are resolved and that any design related issues are addressed in a timely manner. Convert requirements into actionable product/service requirements that feed technology solutions development & influence service direction. Responsible for ensuring solutions are aligned with the platform architecture and roadmap, group standards and policies and the overall enterprise architecture for their function. We are looking for a candidate with experience in leading/developing solutions designs and architectural blueprints for Storage & Data Protection infrastructure
Requirements
Proven track record within the disciplines of solutions design and architecture. A deep technical understanding of Block, File, Object and Data Protection technologies Designs and implements FILE (NAS) storage solutions for customers, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Develops and maintains reference architectures and best practices. Leads technical workshops and proof-of-concepts. Prioritize customer needs and deliver solutions that meet their requirements Understanding of the following Block technologies desirable, Dell, Pure, HPE Understanding of the following File technologies desirable, Netapp FAS/AFF, VAST Understanding of the following Object technologies desirable, Dell, Netapp, VAST Understanding of the following Data Protection technologies desirable, Veritas, CommVault. Knowledge and/or experience developing observability solutions. Knowledge and/or experience with OpenTelemetry, Kafka and/or other streaming technologies. Knowledge and/or experience with observability tooling e.g. Splunk & Grafana is beneficial. Knowledge of Scrum, Kanban or other agile frameworks. Work with Agile methodology, representing the pod and area lead in standups and problem-solving meetings. Experience working in relevant market/context, i.e. IT in finance, is desirable. Able to collaborate and effectively pair with other engineers/architects. Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills Self-awareness with confidence to work independently and take responsibility for own development. Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences. Willingness to undertake the training / study required in this role for new products and services.
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