HSBC Group

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Consultant Specialist.

Business: Regional CIO - ASP 

Principal responsibilities

• Design Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) application solutions, with end-to-end accountability delivering innovative and effective products meeting stakeholders' and customers' demand. 
• Act as microservice and API design SME in the bank as well as a trusted advisor to stakeholders. 
• Convert requirements into actionable product/service requirements that feed technology solutions development & influence service direction. 
• Accountable for ensuring the products & services are supported by the right architectures and solutions meeting customer needs. 
• Responsible for ensuring solutions are aligned with the platform architecture and roadmap, group standards and policies and the overall enterprise architecture for their function. 
• Stay up to date with the latest research and developments in microservice and API design and apply these insights to improve our solutions. 
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service's direction. 
• Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data. 
• Create technical test plans and records, including unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality. 
• Guide performance and accuracy improvement of the system through experimentation, testing, evaluation, and analysis. 
• Provide training and support to business users to help them effectively use the solutions. 
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered. 
• Provide support to DevOps teams working at all stages of a product or service release/change with a strong customer focus and end-to-end journeys, ensuring they have an excellent domain knowledge. 
• Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release/change. 
• Work with Ops Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc) are resolved and that any design related issues are addressed in a timely manner. 
• Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable. 
• 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.

• Strong and efficient communication in both verbal and written form to non-technical stakeholders; upwards (business and management), downwards (IT teams), laterally (peers), and outward (vendors) .
• Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills, logical and critical thinking in architecture.
• Strong solutions architecture and engineering hands-on experience with complex enterprise solutions, e.g. design for availability, scalability, operability, resilience, maintainability and ensure they can be implemented.
• Minimum 8 years’ hands on application design or solution architecture experience.
• Contributing to the broader bank-wide agenda including industry knowledge, thought leadership, mentoring across the team, and supporting other practice areas where relevant.
• Leading technical discussion across technical domains, HSBC group, and Hangseng influencing technology investment decisions.
• Contributing to the broader bank-wide agenda including industry knowledge, thought leadership, mentoring across the team, and supporting other practice areas where relevant.
• Leading technical discussion across technical domains, HSBC group, and Hangseng influencing technology investment decisions.
• Be an essential part of a high performing team: developing talent, track record of followership, making tough decisions, bringing together cross functional teams to achieve ambitious outcomes, fostering a culture of inclusivity and achievement.
• Relationship management inside and outside the bank with particular emphasis on excellent relationship building skills with technical and product colleagues.
• Experience coaching and mentoring technology talent.
• End to end application architecture knowledge with focus on non-functional requirements that are critical in financial service applications.
• Experience in producing architecture best practices, clear choice, guidelines, and roadmap documents, as well as technical pattern and PoC.
• Familiar with cloud platforms, with experience on at least one cloud platform among Azure, GCP, AWS and Ali Cloud.
• Familiar with programming, database technology and their relevant design patterns (e.g. Swift/Java/Python/Golang/Node.js/relational DB/NOSQL DB).
• Capability of using and extending common frontend & microservice development frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Spring Boot, etc.)
• Experience managing delivery program over multiple workstreams.
• Experience overseeing technology adoption from conception, design, development to production.
• Hands on delivery of digital products in a large enterprise.
• Fluent in speaking Mandarin, Cantonese, and English.
• Good in Chinese and English writing.
• Previous working experience in transaction banking / payment / insurance related products is preferable.

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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