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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

MSS Operations IT is currently working on a multi-year, multimillion program to replace existing legacy Applications in Asset Services IT space. This program involves front to Back systems involved in the implementation across Equities and Fixed Income Asset Classes within Markets and Security Services IT.  
We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our existing team to Manage the Engineering Asepcts of all applications within Asset Services Technology. 

In this role, you will: 

• Technical design, development, implementation, automation and maintenance of the Asset Services IT platform to meet the needs of the business. 
• Suggesting and contributing to architecture improvements, recommending process improvements. 
• Ensuring system’s compliance to the constantly changing cybersecurity standards by ensuring timely improvements and ever greening upgrades of the systems. 
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems. 
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across the platform and application domains. 
• Contribute to the smooth running of IT systems by ensuring that problems with production systems and IT services are investigated and resolved efficiently with minimum disruption to the business. 
• Ensure compliance with all relevant internal instructions/policies, internal control standards and external regulatory requirements, including the management of operational risk and adherence to the Group’s standards of ethical behaviour. 
• Communicating with the stakeholders for the upgrades, project enhancements and changes in the system. 
• Manage proper Support model for local Business users and make sure to be the local SPOC for the Business for any AS IT support related things/tasks
• Build solid relationships within IT team, up and down stream dependent IT teams, and, Business, senior stakeholders in all involved parties  
• Manage and maintain clear understanding across all interested parties the status of the project, the key decisions to maintain momentum. Ability to propose program solutions and negotiate with delivery teams and stakeholders to prioritise effectively. 
• Continuous Improvement / Innovate: quickly assimilate and learn from the experiences and apply these learnings to improve future delivery effort 
• Producing necessary Project Plans, Schedules and Tracking and other required supporting documentation 

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

• An individual contributor with 12+ years of IT experience in coding. 
• A fullstack mindset and willingness to work on any layer of the application. 
• The candidate must have atleast 6-9 years of experience in building UI using modern Javascript libraries, typically ReactJS
• Ability to write good unit tests using Junit / Jest.
• Understanding of microservices and REST is a must.  
• Ability to work on Java frameworks like Spring, Vert.x and write efficient code.
• Ability to build smart automation around business requirements to reduce manual dependency.  
• Minimum 3 years of program/Support Management experience (essential) 
• Understanding of Asset Servicing would be an added plus.   
• Technical Knowledge:
  
  • Spring stack / Vert.x
  • ReactJS
  • Micro-services
  • JMS (IBM MQ/Active MQ)
  • REST 
  • Postgres Server/Oracle database
  • Devops
  • Docker or Kubernetes
  • Cloud Technologies like GCP or AWS will be added advantage
  • Knowledge of Python would be an added plus. 

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