Gary Wallace Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, GB

London, GB

• Leading the Enterprise Architecture practice within HSBC Securities Services. Defining technology strategy, introducing new technologies and concepts, and ensuring change aligns to strategy, principles and standards.
• Delivered the architecture strategy roadmap for Securities Services aligning to the business strategy; defining the architecture building-blocks, including Digital & Data capabilities. This helped direct technology.
• Directed and designed the technology impact of major change initiatives e.g. Brexit, balance sheet reorganisation, UK ring-fenced bank. This ensured the bank was able to continue to operate and remained compliant with.
• Directed and produced Reference Architecture and white papers on emerging technologies e.g. APIs, DLT, Data as a Service, Cloud. This helped delivery teams adopt new technologies into business solutions and.
• Defined and implemented the architecture governance framework for all technology changes and aligning to agile ways of working (DevSecOps). This ensured all changes were delivered in a safe and sustainable way.
• Formed the Enterprise Architecture department; defined the Architecture Practice, including the structure and R&Rs. This ensured the team and individuals within the team were aligned to, and could effectively serve.

London, GB

• Defined the solution and technology strategies across all IT workstreams within Global Custody, Treasury, Corporate Trust and Agency Lending businesses. Design Authority working with business heads, project managers.
• Defined and published Architecture Principles for use across Securities Services covering Functional, Information, Application and Infrastructure disciplines; ensured projects met Architecture Governance guidelines and.
• Identified and defined the architecture building blocks required to achieve future state architecture across Securities Services; introduced data solutions, including Data Warehousing, Data Marts, ETL, Middleware.
• Defined the technology roadmap for major programmes including the re-engineering of c100 applications. Identified cross-dependencies of change between IT programmes within Securities Services and at Group level and.
• Chaired the Securities Services Architecture Forum across all business lines to agree product and technology strategy. This ensured business, technology and architecture remained aligned and technology investment.
• Identified and recommended solution candidates (both internal and vendor) to meet business requirements. This ensured proposed solutions were sustainable, fit-for-purpose and fair value to the bank

London, GB

• Managed a global development team covering multiple technology disciplines from n-Tier thin layer applications through to Z-Series mainframe and vendor applications. Full technology ownership across Global Custody.
• Defined the technology stack across all frameworks / platforms and promoted the re-use of code & systems across business and technology lines. This simplified the technology stack and promoted cross-fertilisation of.
• Integrated onshore and offshore teams to promote co-development, defined a global support model (follow the sun), and ensured staff development plans were meaningful. This led to a very low attrition rate for strong+.
• Managed and owned the department budget; assisted the business with formulating annual technology plans, tracking costs and forecasts. This meant IT costs never exceeded agreed annual budget plans
• Achieved year-on-year reduction in outstanding Change Requests and critical system outages (Red days)

London, GB

Led the development of customer and investor facing HSBC websites, including full site launches, service releases and time-to-market releases.A wide variety of websites successfully delivered into production including UK Corporate & Commercial website, HSBC Stakeholder Pensions, IPO and Venture Capital websites. Worked closely with Product and Marketing.

London, GB

Led full development lifecycle, including application architecture, analysis, design, testing, and security for numerous large build projects.A wide range of use cases successfully delivered including bond issuance and paying agent, common depository, stock lending, reconciliations, vault management, and market data management. Introduced an iterative.

Hartford, CT, US

Third-line production support of all Head Office networks, PC hardware and vendor software packages.I conducted proactive trend analysis to identify persistent problem areas and de-risk production environments.