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Some careers shine brighter than others If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. Your career opportunity The Senior Programme Lead is accountable for leading complex, high-value payments programmes within Collections and Digital Merchant Services. This role drives end-to-end delivery across business, product, technology, operations, and external partners, ensuring outcomes are delivered at pace, within governance, and aligned to the bank’s payments functional architecture and strategic roadmap.
Job Responsibility:
Lead large-scale payments Programme (typically US$10m+), owning delivery from initiation through to implementation and benefits realization
Provide strong leadership across cross-functional teams including Technology, Operations, Business, Product, and Partner/Vendor teams, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and delivery cadence
Shape and maintain Programme plans, delivery roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and critical path management across multiple workstreams
Drive Programme governance, including steering committees, status reporting, RAID management, and decision logging, ensuring transparency and timely escalation
Own Programme financials: budgeting, forecasting, actuals tracking, financial governance, and investment case support
Ensure solutions align to payments functional architecture and target-state design principles, including integration patterns and platform strategy
Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to guide delivery across modern payment technology stacks, including microservices and multi-tier architectural frameworks
Support delivery and adoption of payment message standards, with strong working knowledge of MT and MX formats (e.g., SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 MX)
Manage stakeholder expectations proactively, balancing scope, time, cost, risk, and quality while maintaining strong control of change
Ensure delivery meets operational readiness requirements, including controls, resilience, support model, and handover to BAU
Requirements:
Very strong understanding of payments functional architecture and how it applies within a large banking environment
Strong understanding of payment technology stacks in large banks, including microservices and multi-tier architectural frameworks
Demonstrable experience leading Programme in Collections and/or Digital Merchant Services, working across multiple stakeholder groups (Tech, Ops, Business, Product, and Partners)
Strong understanding of MT and MX message formats and their practical implications for delivery, testing, and migration
Strong grasp of Programme governance fundamentals and project financial management (budgeting, forecasting, benefits, and controls)
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to drive decisions across senior stakeholders and diverse teams