HSBC Group

Business: IWPB Technology
Open positions:1
Recruiter Name :  Veronica Zhong

Why join us?

HSBC Group invests billions of dollars annually into positioning itself as a global leader in technology led banking, driving innovation and transforming our digital capabilities.  GPB&W has made significant progress towards establishing globally consistent, market leading products and propositions across its major booking centers. 

The Opportunity: 

Global Private Banking & Wealth aim at providing single front-to-back trading capability, enabling delivery of products and services across asset classes and scaling multi-market with a consistent user experience across the client continuum.
To cope with our expansion globally, we are now seeking experienced and self-motivated IT professionals to join our team as a key Java developer.

This role is part of the GPB&W which is a roll out of Trading solutions across various entities in APAC markets.  He/She would be part of the core application of development team with primary responsibility to enhance and support the allocated modules in the trading application. The role would also require release and implementation support when deploying different releases.

What you’ll do:

•  Communicate with relevant stake holder regarding resolving issues related to delivery of projects.
•  Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ITID, Vendor, Business user and other relevant stakeholder to resolve production queries or incidents with work around and long term solution.
•  Present, develop and apply program fix on Application defects according to HSBC Change Management standard.
•  Ability to influence key stakeholders in order to achieve the best desired outcome
•  Understanding the functional and non-functional requirements through regular interactions with the Business Analysts, SMEs  and Solution Architects.
•  Take lead in designing the solution which is more reusable and maintainable.
•  Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.
•  Breaking down the system functions into multiple-tier API layers and micro services
•  Provides accurate estimates and status to management, raising issues appropriately. 
•  Ensure that development is done with the highest quality measured by defect counts and defect ratios
•  Provide Application incident on-call support during off business hours, and provide Weekend/Public Holiday Application Support per project delivery and Business needs.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• A minimum of 10 years' IT software development experiences with strong experience in Java 8 or above, Spring, Restful Services, Spring Boot and micro-service based architectures.
• A track record of delivering change on architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions, preferably in a financial institution.
• Experience in using HTTP/RESTful APIs, and JavaScript frameworks (ReactJS, AngularJS, Vue.js)
• Good understanding of both RDBMS & NoSQL databases technologies such as DB2, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis or equivalent.
• Experience of containerization, ideally using Docker / Kubernetes.
• Hands-on technical expertise, acquired through delivering Cloud technologies (GCP, AWS and / or Azure) into a large enterprise.
• Strong experience in DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or equivalent.
• Good understanding with messaging services such IBM MQ, Kafka or equivalent. 
• Strong work ethic and team player experienced working with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Real passion for elegance and efficiency in software engineering and always strive for continuous improvements via automated processes
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and fluent in English

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Demonstrable experience of designing Cloud solutions using a combination of cloud native, 3rd party and on premise technologies.
• Good understanding of the challenges and constraints of migrating from existing systems and platforms to Cloud based technologies.
• Good understanding of micro services and service mesh concepts like Istio, Nginx
• Experience in deployment & configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible
• Prior experience in Banking and Financial product knowledge is an advantage.

Link to Candidate User Guide: https://hsbchrdirect.service-now.com/hrsp?id=kb_article&sys_id=60ce20691ba69010280dc9df1d4bcb56

You’ll achieve more at HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.” 

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