HSBC Group

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of  Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist. 

Business: Wholesale Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Owns the strategic technical architecture design and participate in development for the application of CBCC PCS, ensuring service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met.
• Produces and maintains the complex technical infrastructure to meet business requirements. Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives.
• Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management.
• Owns the transformation of the current PCS applications and solution aligning with our elevated Architecture.
• Collaborates with enterprise architecture and senior management to define cloud strategy and perform PoC on new technologies.
• Provides technical leadership and consultation to PCS team members. Provides architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards.
• Resolves architectural or development blockers raised
• Partners with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services.
• Remains current on technical and professional advances and business strategies.
• Contributes to, or in some cases leads, development / implementation projects, as required.

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science or related majors
• Minimum of 10 years of engineering background in back-end Java application development, API, application security and authentication development, springboot, cache and middleware
• Experienced in cloud managed services - GCP/AWS/Azure
• Experienced in producing scalability, resilience, highly available, cost-effective designs
• Strong experience in microservices design patterns, in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.
• Integration design experience
• Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, load-balancer, etc.
• Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
• Expertise in distributed system design like microservices, Springboot.
• Expertise in docker, k8s, service mesh
• Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies like Appdynamics, Splunk, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry.
• Expertise in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, iAM, cloud costing
• Expert-level SQL coding abilities is preferred.
• Ability to work independently and think out of the box. Self-motivated, enthusiastic, delivery-focused.
• The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success.
• Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation.
• Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally.
• Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements.

You’ll achieve more when you join 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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