Job description

Business: Wholesale Technology

Open Positions: 1

Recruiter Name: Krystal Li

Location: XA

Why join us?

  • We develop, implement and support software and IT services and processes that allow HSBC to remain at the forefront of high-quality banking systems. We develop and maintain systems for HSBC’s global businesses, as well as support functions such as Finance, HR and Risk. We work across a range of technology platforms and development disciplines, from mainframe to mobile technologies.
  • Our team includes software engineers and developers, architects, testers, IT and business analysts, consultants and programme and project managers, as well as team leadership and management roles. We employ people in almost all the countries and territories in which HSBC operates. Two locations of HSBC Technology China, including Guangzhou and Xi’an, are world-class technology hubs with industrial delivery capability. If you’re looking for a career that will give you plenty of opportunities to develop, join HSBC and your future will be rich with 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.

The Opportunity:

  • The Consultant Specialist, Development role takes responsibility for delivery and consultancy of Commercial Banking IT projects. The job holder contributes in successful delivery of projects by providing technical / application guidance to project teams and providing guidance to multiple project teams. The responsibilities entail areas such as conducting feasibility studies, requirement analysis, design and development, technology update, knowledge sharing, as well as coding. The Consultant Specialist should be aligned with group standards, IT and business strategy, meet business objectives and satisfy all relevant regulatory, architecture standards and operational risk.

What you’ll do:

  • The Specialist Engineering job contributes to the provision of engineering expertise in specialist technology engineering areas which may include but is not limited to data engineering, security engineering, front-end engineering, user experience engineering. Includes Infrastructure domain specialists such as Storage, Network, Mainframe, etc.
  • The role will provide support for platforms specific to a business area that requires specialist technology engineering expertise; and /or a product or service within a technology engineering specialism;
  • Design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as a key objective for internal and external users focussing on the interface and front-end usability of the application
  • The job may contribute to the provision of latest AI and ML technologies to support the Data Science & Analytics chapters, develop data technology solutions as part of data lifecycle management, deploy and scale analytic products and solutions safely for the business to build insights and data assets aligned to business outcomes and strategic data models.
  • The role requires proficiency in working in an agile way with a high empathy for continuous delivery and DevSecOps – must be able to do small, low-risk, high cadence change. Typically, will release to production daily or multiple times per day. 
Requirements
  • Provide extensive experience in designing and developing of significant applications with considerable experience in leadership.
  • Continuously contribute to code and review other's code for best practice, ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards including relevant Service Management Standard.
  • Write and own standards, define product change strategies and to reach identified visions.Provide Subject Matter Expertise in an area such as: devOps, security, accessibility, agile, production governance etc
  • Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high quality code and data
  • Create and contribute to solutions designs and make judgement calls about adoption of tech debt.
  • Own delivery of a product (from requirement to production).
  • Provide value during production incidents even for things that they have not necessarily been involved in coding and Chair retros across different teams.
  • Break down a programme of work into manageable deliveries and step into the Production Support Management (PSM) role.
  • Build trusted relationships with the business and maintain a good appreciation of the business domain they work in.
  • Communicate clearly, acting as liaison between engineering teams and senior management, translating technical details into business strategies.
  • Develop business cases benefits of addressing technical debt / platform improvement.
  • Promote continuous improvement for self and team.
  • Remove impediments to team's productivity and direct collaboration with Product Owners without the involvement of intermediary roles such as architects, technical leads, business analysts, scrum master and project managers.

Link to Candidate User Guide:

https://hsbchrdirect.service-now.com/esc?id=kb_article&table=kb_knowledge&sysparm_article=KB0184596&sys_kb_id=712b5f041b1f82908d3a0fe7ec4bcbd6

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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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited Xian Branch***

Recruiter name
Zhen Li
Recruiter email
krystal.z.li@hsbc.com.cn