Asia Business Architecture Lead, Gpb&w

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HSBC Private Bank seeks to be the leading international private bank for business owners and their families. It provides clients with wealth, business and family succession solutions in the largest and fastest growing markets around the world. At HSBC Private Bank, we put our clients at the centre of everything we do.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a **Asia Business Architecture Lead, GPB&W**.

**Role Purpose**

The Lead Business Architect for GPB&W Asia will be responsible for defining the target operating model and business capabilities (incl. journeys and processes) required to fulfil GPB&W Asia's strategy (Asia Wealth and WMT), and to design solutions (in conjunction with tech architecture) for the optimal system platforms to meet those business capabilities.

The role holder will also be responsible for running the GPB&W Asia Design Authority which provides design/architecture governance across all SVS’ in the region to ensure that design decisions are effective and consistent with global design principles, and that solutions are re-usable. Given Asia's business model, the role holder will also be the lead BA for the priority domain of Capital Markets and Trading.

The role holder will act as trusted advisor to GPB&W Asia COO and other senior business stakeholders in the region and build/lead a small team of high-quality business architects in the region.

**Principal Accountabilities**

**Key activities and decision making areas**
- Engages with business and delivery partners to build a pipeline of high value business architecture consulting engagements
- Captures target business models (goals, products, target customer groups etc), provides traceability through to operating model design and assesses impact of change against the models so that planned change supports enduring business capability and competitive advantage
- Develops Target Operating Model (TOM) designs that describe how the business will be structured to deliver the target business model comprising organisation, process and technology
- Analyses current state operating models against target model to identify gaps and opportunities to support an effective transition towards the target state
- Integrates operating model work with IT strategy / architecture conducted by SWD and ITO; process work conducted by Process Consultants, Service Delivery and the Business; focusing on alignment and new business capabilities
- Assesses impact of change against TBM / TOM and engages with Business Partners, Senior Portfolio Managers and Programme Managers to create an optimal change portfolio that supports a pragmatic and optimal evolution to the target state, ensuring alignment to business goals and minimising gaps and overlaps between programmes
- Participates in organisational design (structure, teams, jobs) with the business and with HR. Support organisation sizing and capacity planning work.
- Ensures business architecture is communicated and well-understood so that change activity is informed by target business and operating models
- Supports Business Consultants and Analysts in change initiation activities to ensure effective implementation of TBMs and TOMs
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders and business partners, building strong relationships to ensure consensus and influence change outcomes. Fosters open and honest communication which anticipates stakeholder expectations
- Support Business Consultants, Analysts and delivery partners on solution design providing advice on solution options and ensuring alignment to operating model
- Provides direction to senior business architects and analysts in delivery of business architecture services

**Operational Performance**
- Applies commercial acumen and strategic awareness in developing effective target business models and assessing change impacts
- Ensures that change impacts are communicated and understood by appropriate change stakeholders and that risks, issues are raised to appropriate governance bodies
- Identifies opportunities to improve delivery and mitigate operational risk
- Ensure business architects are engaged on activities that maximise value to business partners
- Provides direction to Business and Process consultants with system related functional and organisational expertise

**Capability and People Development**
- Identifies the resource requirements of Business Architecture engagements, requesting the appropriate resource through skill set and/or experience
- Acts as a role model to foster a collaborative team environment across regions, markets and inclusive of