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The Head of Data Technology IWPB and HSBC UK will have accountabilities for all IWPB data technologies, as well as deliveries of wider data technologies that benefit the IWPB business and HSBC UK. Reporting into the Head of CTO Data Technology, you will be responsible for strategic technology planning, transformation execution, and budget delivery with the business. Your role involves overseeing the full lifecycle of IWPB data technology services to meet data use case and regulatory requirements, and ensuring data technology service delivery to the IWPB business and HSBC UK. This includes strategic design, build quality, and service uptime metrics. You will govern the data applications to Group data standards and assist the business and markets in adopting Groupwide data capabilities and associated tooling to address complex and ambiguous problems across multiple markets. Leading the team to build core and common reusable data technology components required across multiple value streams is a key aspect of your role. Collaboration with the business is essential to deliver excellent results to challenging problems across multiple functions and geographies. You will need to focus on building engineering excellence within the team and deliver against a strategic operating plan that ensures resources, including capability, people, and funding, can enhance current customer journeys and deliver new features and compelling services. As the Head of Data Technology, you will be responsible for the global implementation of IWPB data and wider data initiatives within the Group Data Strategy. This involves working with global, regional, and business and tech leads to provide optimized global services tailored to address business demand solutions. Driving simplification of the data technology landscape through partnerships with the business to modernize strategic applications and phase out non-strategic ones in alignment with the Data Future State Architecture is also a critical aspect of your role. Your primary business stakeholders include the Head of Data and Analytics IWPB, Data Analytics Office, and COO of HSBC UK, while your primary technology stakeholders are CIO IWPB and CIO HSBC UK. It is imperative for you to drive engineering excellence, digital solutions delivery, and data standardization to support the business agenda of IWPB and HSBC UK. You will need to define, develop, and implement cutting-edge strategies to address complex problems using modern technology platforms across multiple markets. Managing the annual budget between designing and developing new services and supporting existing services, enabling reduced operational costs, and optimizing headcount distribution to deliver business value are essential responsibilities. You should have outstanding leadership skills and a deep understanding of emerging data technologies, operational effectiveness, and global data technology delivery. Experience in leading and influencing global technology teams, as well as familiarity with key technology trends and regulatory expectations, is crucial for this role. Your capabilities should include cultivating innovation, strategic thinking, taking action on new opportunities, building effective teams, driving vision and purpose, resilience in facing setbacks, managing ambiguity, and ensuring accountability. Persuasion, conviction, and the ability to address difficult issues are also important traits for this position.,
