HSBC Group

Business: Wholesale IT 
Open Positions: 1
Recruiter Name: Amber ZHU

Why join us? 
Global Trade Solutions (GTS) is part of Commercial Banking that provides a range of financial services supporting customers through the trade cycle from raw materials to manufacturing and shipment to discounting and collecting invoices.  Wholesale Technology provides technology solution to GTS customers in 50+ countries with banking products and services to help them operate and grow.  Our customers range from small enterprises focused primarily on their domestic markets, through to large companies operating globally.

The Opportunity: 
We are looking for a Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering in China to work with GTS Engineering Team. As platform capabilities are delivered, this role will form the core of the team responsible for releasing and supporting the live services and platform on which they reside. The role takes responsibility for delivery and consultancy of Commercial Banking IT projects. The job holder contributes in successful delivery of IT 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, team management as well as coding. This role should algin with group standards, IT and business strategy, meet business objectives and satisfy all relevant regulatory, architecture standards and operational risk.

What you’ll do:  
• To guide and lead teams of Development Team Leaders, Development Specialists and Analyst/Developers, with a variety of specialization through the full development life cycle, and being act as full-stack subject matter expert, and specialized in Micro-services/API, front-end technologies, and cloud base applications.
• Provide outstanding technical expertise, knowledge and ability with the capacity for original thinking in development and coding for an end-to-end solutions.
• Partner with global engineering subject matter experts to align and agree on the technical implementation with good command of English oral and written skill.
• Take remediation actions on application defects, and take preactivated preventive measures to minimize service outage and disruption for business.
• Drive actively for adoption of automation in the direction of DevSecOps implementation in uplifting the overall engineering capability.
• Undertake additional tasks as directed by the Engineering Manager.
• Work closely with business and IT teams on various projects and support items, coordinate among business/IT and regional delivery teams.
• End to end accountability for each delivery, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions to meet customer needs as part of the Customer Journey.
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met.
• Sensitive to the industry uplift of technologies, tools and practices and their business trends.

• At least 15+ years’ Experience on banking / finance system service, and at least 8 years working in Micro-Services/API development and Web-based application and should be as subject matter expert level.
• Hand-on full stack experience in RESTful API Java Development, and HTML,ReactJS/AngularJS Development, and wider technologies (eg. SpringBoot, AWS, Kong Gateway, Docker, Mongo DB, Pipeline).
• Exposure to monitoring tools (Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus or similar) and fault tolerance tools like Hystrix.
• Familiar with security application design, development and integration is must, like https, cert pinning, encryption and decryption and data protection.
• Good command of overall application design with related certification is preferable (eg. TOGAF).
• Outstanding sense and skillset for trouble shooting under pressure and demanding situation.
• Being diversity and inclusive, willing to work within colleague with different cultures across the globe.

What additional skills will be good to have?  
• University graduate with a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline with 15+ years of relevant experience
• Working experience in Agile methodology/SAFe.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Self-motivated, positive, and flexible with the ability to work independently and as part of a global team.

Link to Candidate User Guide: 
https://hsbchrdirect.service-now.com/hrsp?id=kb_article&sys_id=60ce20691ba69010280dc9df1d4bcb56 

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***