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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 Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will:

• Responsible for contributing architecturally to all the Calypso applications under the DCS umbrella.
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of different projects, preparing a technical delivery plan and ensuring the timeliness
• Work closely with architecture team to deliver solutions that appropriately address business needs and timeliness having futuristic thought process and embedded design thinking
• Providing guidance to the DevOps engineers on the engineering approaches to implement solution
• Define processes and tools best suited for the project. Should have the ability to work in a Dev Ops & Agile fashion.
• Decision Making - Identifying problems and steering towards implementing solutions, making decisions based on sound, rational judgement.
• Manage/maintain and upgrade the DCS Calypso Infrastructure. Prepare Vulnerability mitigation plans and work with the team to implement it.
• Identifies and analyses complex problems involving the wider team; generates feasible and creative solutions considering all aspects and consequences; leads brainstorming meetings to discuss and/or resolve problems
• Questions current state and facilitates stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement
• Responsible for line management responsibilities to ensure the staff is engaged on the deliveries. Responsible for forming and driving high performing team.
• Exhibits high energy, understands issues within team and galvanizes others to achieve goals

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

• 14+ years of IT experience in successfully delivering complex technology solutions within a defined Software/Systems development life cycle in Investment Banking domain.
• Experience in SDLC & Agile project life cycles to gather functional and technical requirements, project timeliness driving the design and development of the project.
• To architect, develop, and implement technical solutions using Java, XML, Unix, and Oracle.
• To drive automation, performance tuning, and process improvements.
• To ensure compliance with business, technical, and regulatory standards.
• Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, presentation and analytical skills.
• Drive platform improvement initiatives like improvement of performance, production stability

Requirements

• Excellent Calypso knowledge and can act as SME with strong experience in rolling out Calypso (Vendor) product
• Strong experience in rolling out and managing Application like Spring, Spring boot and Microservices.
• Subject Matter expert in Clearing business and understanding of operational model of different Clearing Houses like LCH, CME, ICE, HKEX, EUREX etc.
• Excellent grasp on Java, Java EE, Spring, Spring boot, Shell Script, PowerShell, Python, Cloud
• Strong experience with design and development of applications using Integration / Streaming / Reactive Frameworks.
• Experience architecting solutions for various deployment profiles (On Premise / On Cloud).
• Exposure to Message/Event driven architectures working with IBM MQ, ActiveMQ etc.
• Exposure to industry standard financial message formats such as FIX, FPML etc.
• Exposure to SOAP / Restful APIs
• Exposure to message serialization and data interchange using XMLs, JSON etc.
• Strong Exposure on RDBMS (e.g. Oracle19c, Sybase, PostgreSQL).
• DevOps & Tooling expertise with exposure to Continuous Integration and Automated Deployments using tools such as Git, ANT, MAVEN, Gradle, Groovy, Jenkins, Sonar, Ansible (AAP), Run deck etc.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting guidelines by various regulatory authorities, e.g. FCA.
• Strong knowledge of Global Markets traded products like Interest Rate, FX, Credit and Equity businesses.

Essential soft skills

• Good analytical & logical skills with the ability to multitask.
• Ability to work independently, take responsibility and be a self-learner.
• Good Interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in an international environment and across cultures/time-zones.
• Ability to work under time and stress pressure.
• Ability to continuously provide high quality of service and to ensure compliance of internal policies.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven rapid learning capability
• Experience working in fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Pro-active, confident & delivery focused.
• Team player and adaptable to change.

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