Head of Markets & Securities Services IT Poland

Your new role 

➜ Contract of employment
➜ Location: Cracow
➜ Hybrid working model (office 2x/week)

Principal responsibilities:

Impact on the Business
• Define, shape, communicate and lead the execution of the Nearshore Centre Strategy
• Ensure we have the right people with the right talent & skills to deliver.
• Drive the adoption of agile & DevSecOps practices across the Poland delivery teams.
• Foster and champion a culture of continuous improvement & engineering excellence.
• Showcase MSS global alignment by leading MSS Functional deliveries.

Customers / Stakeholders
• Work closely with colleagues across MSS IT to ensure appropriate resource planning in alignment with project delivery demands balanced with the Future State Architecture
• Help Regional CIO and Asset Class IT heads manage their Poland based stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate resource mix and maintain effective relationships with local suppliers, managing local ongoing engagements as required.
• Representation of MSS IT at country & regional level forums.
• As needed, engage with the local regulatory bodies regarding their enquiries or assessments of Markets or Banking technology at HSBC Bank Poland. Support internal and external audits covering Poland and the European and Global Markets or Banking business’ processes, systems or infrastructure.
• Represent MSS IT costs, risks, stability and conduct in appropriate county-wide IT and COO forums.
• Lead initiatives and deliver global asset-class priorities in addition to running the MSS IT Poland dev centre.

Leadership & Teamwork
• Motivate, guide and mentor the Poland leadership team.
• Develop a Poland development centre executable vision & strategy with the aim of creating a
sustainable resourcing structure and positioning Poland to take on more global deliveries.
• Provide technical leadership, promote an engineering culture in Poland, in alignment with global MSS IT values and priorities.
• Drive broader employee engagement across MSS IT Poland
• Help to ensure that the teams are appropriately resourced for the challenges faced.
• Manage all entity aspects of the MSS IT Poland team.
• Influence project lifecycle and ensure plans are produced and implemented where appropriate.
• Assist in the development of the leadership team, providing knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise, providing coaching and sponsoring training solutions where necessary.
• Assist in the control of concurrent projects and resources that may vary in scale and complexity to meet changing objectives.
• Manage relationships at a senior level with the wider HSBC IT team; as well as engaging and managing relationships with third party suppliers.
• Collaborate with Regional CIO and Asset Class IT Heads to ensure an effective succession plan is in place for the Poland leadership team.

Operational Effectiveness & Control
• Accountable for overseeing the safe, secure and sustainable deliveries across the Centre. The role holder must work to minimize production outages, and ensure all change is managed in an effective and sustainable manner. The role holder will work with asset class delivery managers to ensure best practice is adhered to
• Testing, release and environment management pose particular challenges for a large and complex vendor package used within MSS IT. The role holder must support MSS IT teams in location to maximize automation and ensure that best the latest tools, techniques and processes have been adopted.
• Responsible for ensuring that all Segregation of Duty and Management Self-Identified Audit Issues and other Risk and Control matters are well managed in location.
• Responsible for ensuring that all operational targets are met including headcount, headcount mix, and budgets.

What you'll need to succeed 

• At least 15 years in IT management, with 10 years’ experience working with senior/executive management, across different geographies & functional areas.
• Strong experience of the Investment Banking domain
• Ability to navigate complex global environment.
• Engineering/technology delivery background using DevSecOps, even better if obtained across multiple domains and ideally within a matrixed organization.
• Experience of managing external vendor relationships
• Highly literate, with the ability to distil complex business concepts into simple language.
• Comfortable operating in both agile and waterfall software development environments (and variations in between)
• Able to navigate ambiguity and distill clear messages and goals within a matrixed organisation
• Highly articulate, with excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, with a desire to own the resolution to the problem.
• Learning mindset - able to quickly learn processes, systems, policies to the point of designing changes or compatible solutions.
• Experience of functional project management and successful delivery of technical solutions for business / stakeholders

What you'll get in return 

• Competitive Salary
• Annual performance- based bonus
• Additional bonuses for recognition awards

• Multisport Card
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• One-Time reimbursement of home office set up (up to 800 PLN)
• Corporate parties and events
• CSR Initiatives
• Nursery and Kindergarten discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social Fund
• Flexible working hours
• Free parking

What you need to do now 

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

Hays Poland sp. z o.o. is an employment agency registered in a registry kept by Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship under the number 361.