Job description

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.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

  • Provide security consultancy on specialist strategic topics 
  • Work closely with vendors, platform teams and subject matter experts (SME’s) where necessary in order to drive out architectural decisions, design statements and exceptions. 
  • Take the lead on solving security challenges and issues where the problem scenario is not covered by a pattern, standard or existing strategy.
  • Surface strategic and architectural decisions through the approved governance or oversight channels as defined by the bank’s operating model. 
  • Where embedded within a project, act as a primary resource ensuring commitment to attend all appropriate calls and meetings in order to provide the level of support required. 
  • Acts as a buffer between the speed of continuous integration and the need for strategic security and managing overall business and security risks
  • Act as the first point of contact for IT Security questions and queries
  • Participate in IT Security engagement activities (e.g. risk assessment and threat modelling sessions, security risk review etc.);
  • Identify security risks as they arise, communicate it as appropriate and ensure relevant stakeholders are involved for the adequate mitigation or remediation
  • Provide guidance to the teams and stakeholders of IT Security by referring to policies and standards
  • Promote the adoption of security tooling in line with the development lifecycle and HSBC approved toolset;
  • Identify and make recommendations geared at increasing teams’ velocity through self-sufficiency in terms of IT Security
  • Educate teams in terms of their security capabilities
  • Identify, engage and establish relationships with key stakeholders
  • Assess Dev team IT Security profile, controls, and level of engagement
  • Provide advice and guidance to relevant stakeholders about the IT Security engagement model improvement
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

  • Security Architecture or Security Solution Architecture experience 
  • Security solution design or security design document review and preparation
  • Experience of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS and GCP) and experience in performing security review against applications deployed in cloud.
  • Experience in container security, microservice security, API security and Kubernetes or other container orchestration products
  • Have experience in application risk assessment, threat modelling
  • Proficient in application security review of Web, Mobile and API.
  • Ability to assess and identify any possible vulnerabilities/risks in technology being developed prior to implementation
  • Experienced in web application, API Security, and mobile application security testing in conformance to various industry standards like OWASP top 10, SANS top 25 etc.
  • Good to have knowledge on programming and scripting skills in languages like Java, JavaScript, Angular, Spring Boot etc.
  • Good to have experience on app/API IAM/authentication/authorization products
  • Strong understanding of the security threat landscape, awareness of major historical and recent vulnerabilities, awareness of security industry responses to significant threats 
  • Strong understanding of Zero Trust security including detailed knowledge of concepts, industry whitepapers and practical implementations 
  • Strong understanding of security industry trends, hot topics, commercial and vendor capability awareness 

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India

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