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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 Senior Software Engineer

Securities Services Tech is one of the large asset classes within CIB Tech and has teams in London, Canada, Poland, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Pune – supporting businesses covering Banks and Broker Dealers, Fund Admin, Transfer Agency and Digital Data Innovation functions. The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our Front Office part of the business and increase the speed and quality of delivery. We have adopted a DevOps model driving agile delivery and building a strong product ownership group. The 2025 change portfolio is nine figures executed by c.1000+ technology professionals globally.
The individual in this role is empowered and accountable to provide hands-on technical expertise to identify and build commercially viable, fit-for-future, and competitive engineering solution. This involves leading the technical delivery of highly complex, business critical, client facing, front-to-back services for the Securities Services business.

The successful candidate will also be responsible to develop and grow the engineering capability of the Custody and Asset Servicing functional team globally and Securities Services Technology team in India horizontally, via contributing to build strong technology skills and capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• End to end implementation of the requirements provided by business using the project tech stack 
• Ensure compliance with architectural principles and development standards
• Ensure solution designs address performance, availability, security and supportability challenges, as well as business functional requirements
• Work with colleagues from partner teams globally to translate business and technical requirements into solutions
• Ensure DevSecOps automation strategies for all solutions
• Ensure successful delivery of solutions into Production environment
• Provide support for live IT services including remediation of vulnerabilities and server maintenance activities
• Carries out activities that are large in scope, cross-functional and technically difficult.
• Drive Engineering Excellence through Non-functional aspects.
• Develop data integration interfaces, APIs and micro services
• Develop test automation suites for API testing
• Work with tech stakeholders across multiple systems and regions

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

Mandatory Skills / Experience:

• 2 to 5 years of strong experience on technical stack - Java, micro services, API, SQL, shell scripting
• Experience on any cloud platform is added advantage (preferred GCP).
• Good to have experience on any front-end technologies (preferably React js) 
• Proven experience on IT service delivery using Agile methodology along with automation testing framework.
• Experience in finance domain and preferred experience in Custody or Asset Servicing. 
• Strong interpersonal capabilities and Proven ability to work with local/ global teams.
• Excellent communication in both written and verbal in English, conflict management and problem-solving skill. 
• Experience of understanding business and IT architecture, change and operational aspects of technology. 
• Strong understanding of technology and IT application, up to date with latest technology trends and ideas in the wider market. Exposure to Java / data is advantage
• Can understand, build and present business cases and technical solution / design to senior stakeholders, business sponsor or clients. 
• University degree in computer science, information technology or a related discipline

Sector functional requirements: Custody and Asset Servicing. 

• Preferably experience of Securities Services, Custody or Securities Operations Technology in a Bank.
• Used to translate User Stories into technical design and implementation.
• Familiarity with Financial Markets and related asset classes will be an advantage.
• Understanding and awareness of cutting age technologies including AI/ML

Sector nice to have: 

• Experience with multiple or hybrid Cloud platform and 3rd Party applications.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (Configmap / Secrets / Hashicorp – Vault / Helm Charts).
• Experience in Kafka (including Kafka Avro, concept of partitioning).
• Experience in NoSQL (MongoDB, Postgres – Document model).
• Commercial acumen and good risk management and mitigation skills.
• Positive, proactive and can do attitude.
• Experience of integrating vendor platforms on complex business lines / functions will be advantage. 

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