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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

HSBC Technology India (HTI) is a pivotal part of the HSBC Group and provides essential technical and operational support to our global businesses and helps improve customer service and efficiency. This particular Engineering Lead role falls under the Non Financial Risk - Front Office Supervision Technology platform which caters to various regulatory and supervisory controls across the HSBC Global Markets business

We are currently looking for an experienced techno-functional professional to join our team in the role of Engineering Lead. The individual will lead multiple scrum teams (pods) with a commercial engineering mindset to ensure the successful delivery of the team’s functional as well as non-functional milestones.
This leadership role requires the lead to provides hands-on technical and functional contributions to the platform, including line management of the pod leads & business analysts while focusing on building high performing teams with a focus on quality assurance, Agile KPIs, continues improvement, efficiency and delivery optimisation, as well as the career growth and development of the team members.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners and cross functional engineering teams to successfully deliver planned milestones in a timely and efficient manner across different pods.
• Champion agile ways of working with empathy focusing on continuous delivery, DevSecOps, process optimization etc. while adding business value.
• Able to communicate effectively, build consensus and provide thought leadership across multiple workstreams reflecting proficiency in solving complex business and technology problems, while keeping pace with planned delivery timelines driving a diverse set of objectives across multiple pods.
• Work with developers, analysts & global project managers to determine the size, scope, impact, estimates and risks for milestones to be delivered across pods.
• Demonstrate accountability with end-to-end ownership of global business deliverables, including production stability, ensuring successful deliveries according to agreed requirements, timescales and budgets.
• Hands-on SDLC participation from reviewing requirements to release and post go-live support. 
• Define strategy, processes & tools best suited for the product.  Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the platform. 
• Maintain - HSBC Internal control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit actions, issues raised by external regulators etc.
• Be aware of the operational risk scenarios associated with your role and raise them in a timely manner, including potential solutions to mitigate the same.
• Leading from the front to ensure Pod members can observe the right behaviors & practices
• Data Driven mindset - ensuring data is being used to drive effective improvements
• Up-skilling - to ensure the strength / talent of the team is maximised
• Contributing to architecture design for items in alignment to Future State Architecture
• System performance monitoring and optimization - to ensure deliverables satisfy non functional requirements
• Industrialisation - to ensure robust solutions are being developed and tech debt reduced.
• Innovation - to ensure that we are continually improving and benefitting from industry advancements
• Culture mentality of - "Production is King", "You break it, You fix it", "You build it, You own it" and "Collective Responsibility of Entire Platform"
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills.

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

Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience in Java technologies as the primary skill with Java 17 or above.
• Experience working with Spring Framework and Spring Boot Microservices.
• Strong exposure to Microservice architecture and design patterns.
• Experience working with RDBMS such as Oracle, PostgreSQL and document based NO SQL database such as ElasticSearch, Mongo DB.
• Proven track record in designing, developing and deploying applications.
• Experience with Unix systems, Shell scripting, Python etc.
• DevOps and Tooling expertise in infrastrure as Code, Continuous Integration and automated Deployments using tools like GitHub, Gradle/Maven, Jenkins and Ansible.
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Kanban/Scrum.
• Exposure to AI/ML algorithms, LLM and Gen AI tools.
• Exposure to BDD, TDD methodologies using tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, RestAssured, Gatling, Load Runner, etc.
• Exposure to alerting and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, etc.

Good to have

• Experience working in investment banking domain with exposure to FX, Equities and Debt Markets with good understanding of trade life cycle.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India