Sustainability Lead

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom HSBC Full time

-Job description

**Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.**

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Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

**Role Description**:
The Sustainability Lead is responsible for leading and coordinating the bank's sustainability initiatives in the technology function, ensuring that our technology operations align with the bank's sustainability goals and contribute to the bank's overall sustainability strategy.

Reporting to the CTO Head of Enablement the role will work to ensure world class technology solutions that enable business success by leading strategy and delivery for Sustainability Platform.

Managing a direct team and budget of circa 5 resources, the role will support the outcomes of Vision ‘27 across Speed, Scale & Resilience whilst accelerating the build out and development of a world-class CTO capability that attracts, nurtures and retains talent.

The person in this role will be commercially astute, an excellent communicator and able to partner strongly with executive level business stakeholders (Group General Managers and their teams). They will work with business leaders to define technology strategies, create new solutions and drive a culture of continuous improvement. They will also be partnering with other DBS and IT counterparts, at various executive levels of the organisation including in-country leadership (CEO, COO, CIO).

**Responsibilities**:
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- Develop and implement sustainability initiatives for the technology function, including energy efficiency, waste reduction, and sustainable sourcing.
- Collaborate with other departments within the bank to ensure alignment with the bank's overall sustainability strategy.
- Conduct sustainability assessments of the technology function's operations and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and maintain sustainability metrics and reporting mechanisms to track progress and communicate results to stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver sustainability training programs to increase awareness and engagement of technology staff in sustainability efforts.
- Establish partnerships with external organizations to leverage expertise and resources in sustainability initiatives.
- Stay up-to-date with sustainability trends, best practices, and regulations to ensure that the technology function is always aligned with the latest sustainability developments.
- Manage budgets and resources related to sustainability initiatives.
- Lead a team of sustainability professionals and coordinate their activities to achieve sustainability goals.
- Develop and maintain the bank's sustainability roadmap, ensuring that our technology function is aligned with the bank's overall sustainability strategy.

**Leadership and Strategy Responsibilities**
- Lead the Sustainability Platform to successful delivery of business outcomes.
- Strong commercial awareness looking for ways to drive down RTB costs through automation, less TOIL and efficient use of Infrastructure.
- Ensure HSBC technologies are standardized an aligned to customer needs.
- Promote the Net Zero strategy for CTO embedding best practices and consistency across the organization.
- Work with Regional CTO leaders to capture regional business requirements whilst ensuring global consistency
- Manage the associated budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.
- Build strong working relationships with Product Lines and business leaders to ensure teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.
- Collaborate with CTO Exco business leaders to develop short
- and long-term strategic plans.
- Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.
- Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the CTO organization.
- Work with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.

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**Talent Management Responsibilities**
- Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent.
- Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.
- Manage talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Partner with CTO HR to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the

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