HSBC Group

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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 Lead Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• This role is part of the Innovation and Gen AI tech team and is responsible for supporting the use cases delivery on Innovation and GenAI, including: New use case onboarding; design, development/coding, testing & deployment into Production.
• Understand Group and Compliance/Enterprise Technology Innovation strategy, help define technical strategy and execute which to fulfill business needs and aspirations on growth, management and control.
• Work with global Risk and Compliance IT architecture team to ensure that technical solution, development, and integrations adhere to group standards.
• Establish and execute a vision to plan, deliver, and support solutions in a complex, distributed technology environment. The ideal candidate must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Plan for people and project management, provide coaching and guiding directly or indirectly to teams having developers, testers, analyst and architects inside by giving clear direction, feedbacks and timely suggestions to ensure a high quality standard of deliverables according to HSBC standards and best practices.
• Address existing technical debt and drive for technical evolutions Innovation and Digital Transformation for the teams by working closely with various parties including business, Transformation, Solution Architects globally.
• Establish and maintain trustworthy relationships with business and relevant stakeholders. Manage expectation of key stakeholders and work jointly to maximize interest of business and customers
• Manage supply and demand pipeline and give guidance, direction for making decision to achieve goals, deliver products that align with business. 

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

• You will be tenacious about doing things the right way and building efficient and ‘brilliantly simple’ business solutions. You will also be adept at working in customer facing roles within enterprise environments, helping clients to capitalise on technology for their commercial benefit. 
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; advanced degree is preferred. GCP or AWS certified (GCP preferred). Prompt engineering experience preferred. Expert level core Java / Python skills
• Minimal 15+ years’ experience of software developments with both waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Have experience leading and managing agile, cross function delivery teams encompassing 30+ staff (direct and indirect reports).
• Possess strong technical capabilities (BigData, AI/ML, API, Microservices), knowledge and experience on DevOps, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and Agile control Framework.
• Are passionate about technology and look for opportunities to learn & bring new ideas to the team.
• Sound understanding of Azure / Google Cloud platforms. Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Storage, Cloud Functions 
• Experience in performing data analysis, on Databases (SQL, no-SQL, DBT). CI/CD pipelines. Data Flow, Data Proc, Big Query skills an advantage. Security (IAM, AD, ADLDS, roles, service accounts, entitlements). Events & Data Streaming: Data Proc, Pub-Sub, Confluent/Kafka. Experience using GIT, Jira, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins and Ansibl
• Ability to communicate and explain complex ideas in both oral and written English. Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experience in Banking and Financial Services with good understanding of the legal and compliance business
• Good communication (verbal written). Ability to explain complex ideas.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment;
• Keen to learn and keen to mentor
• Experience in delivering complex solutions at large organizations of varying size and complexity
• Experience working in a global environment
• Highly motivated, outcome driven and results oriented with the ability to prioritize and drive measurable value
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience of Agile principles and processes and leading teams  
• Methods using DevOps tools and processes. 
• Understanding of and practical experience working with DevOps teams
• Certification:Cloud certifications [Optional]