HSBC Group

Business: Wholesale Technology

Open Positions: 1

Recruiter Name: Krystal Z LI

Location: GZ 

Why join us?

Wholesale IT is at the heart of growth at HSBC, generating more than US$20 billion each year, and turning over more than US$1 million of trade every minute.  As one of the largest Commercial Banks in the world, we support millions of businesses in around 55 countries and territories – from small enterprises to large multinationals – to thrive and grow. 
Wholesale IT Technology sits within HSBC Operations, Services and Technology (HOST). Our team provides the technology solutions that enable the business to operate and service customers. From cutting edge relationship management platforms built using Agile/DevOps to industrial strength engines that power global online websites and trade platforms, our highly engaged and talented team can do it all. 
Wholesale IT / Common Capabilities is introducing more consistency in aspects of Wholesale IT delivery. Thus enabling better customer outcomes through re-use and standardization and the efficiencies that result. Team achieving this by: Identifying those areas where increased standardization will produce benefits. This will be through design standards E.g. API standards – looking to avoid future expensive migrations resulting from differing approaches around API designs and tools and also through capability standardization, converging service approach supplying that capability E.g. use a smaller number of API Platforms or Notification Services. In doing all this we will deliver robust and innovative solutions to satisfy customer need. But do this in a way that reduces duplication, encourages re-use and fosters a collaboration culture within Wholesale IT. 

The Opportunity:

The Infrastructure Architecture function partners with Solution Architecture to:

• Design high quality technology platforms with tiered service levels
• aligned with each technology to manage the infrastructure services, vendor engagement and product lifecycles.
• Deliver cost savings & efficiency through reduced complexity
• Improve time to market for delivery of services
• Enable effective regulatory, audit & security controls
• Drive productivity & sustainability 

What you’ll do:

• Writing infrastructure designs for Wholesale Shared Service that align with the overall enterprise infrastructure strategy and the business area's strategy
• Managing and optimizing the portfolio of infrastructure for each business unit, driving operational improvement and cost efficiencies
• Supporting Wholesale Shared Service business projects and transformation programs by delivering new IT services, exploiting current infrastructure technologies, migrating applications to IaaS/PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud, driving greater utilization of virtualization and lower cost storage, and migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
• Investigating new infrastructure technologies to meet the GBGF business requirements
• Providing technical governance over the products used in HSBC through the Technical Reference Model (TRM)
• Writing and reviewing Infrastructure Architecture Designs approved by appropriate Authority
• Managing relationships across HSBC IT Architecture, IT Infrastructure Delivery, and Wholesale Shared Service Application Development team areas on an ongoing basis
• Keeping up to date with business strategies and roadmaps, technology roadmaps, and feeding wider business IT requirements into central infrastructure engineering and strategy

• A university graduate with a degree in computer science or a related discipline
• At least 10 years of technical experience in the IT industry
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies such as Google GCP, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, APIs, Mulesoft, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Expertise in container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in databases such as Oracle RAC, Sybase, Apache Hadoop & Hbase, and MongoDB
• Experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Nexus
• Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform
• Knowledge of middleware such as Websphere, Tomcat, Java, Messaging, Application Server, and Web server
• Understanding of networking concepts such as Cisco, TCP/UDP, Broadcast/Multicast, LAN/WAN, and SDN
• Experience in server operating systems internals, benchmarking, and performance tuning for Linux, Windows, and Solaris
• Knowledge of server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, and KVM
• Familiarity with storage technologies such as EMC SAN – FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SRDF; NetApp NAS - CIFS, NFS; and Object storage
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Passion for technology and a deep understanding of how things work. 

What additional skills will be good to have?

• GCP Certificate or equivalent certification from other cloud service providers.
• have a proven track record of delivering significant change that improves business effectiveness in sustainable ways.
• A track record of making technical decisions with authority, even in times of ambiguity, while considering the potential long-term risks and implications is a must-have.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills are required, with experience successfully influencing stakeholders, negotiating effectively, and delivering compelling and persuasive presentations.
• The candidate should have a history of setting and achieving challenging short, medium, and long-term goals that exceed the standards in their field.
• Built effective networks both internally and externally, creating opportunities for others to work collaboratively is a desirable quality for this position.    

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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