HSBC Group

Business: CTO Infrastructure

Open Positions: 1

Recruiter Name: Lampson P LIANG

Location: GZ

Why join us?

 The Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist will work closely with CTO enablement Infrastructure department, middleware team in Shanghai, to ensure that CTO solutions are aligned with the bank's overall strategy, and that the market’s CTO needs are met. This will require an understanding and close interaction with regulators along with business stakeholders in the market. The CTO enablement Infrastructure department supports China IT open platform infrastructure in three local datacenters, providing end to end support not only on strong capability but also resilience to fulfill China business growth.

The Opportunity:

 The Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist will be responsible for the effective running of CTO IT solutions in China. It is a member of RTB (Run The Bank) team following the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model and aiming to provide support for middleware products (WAS/WLP/IHS/MQ/MQIPT/BPM/Filenet/Apache httpd/LDAP/ConnectDirect). Middleware team members should target to setup middleware servers, post configuration, product upgrade/patching, performance tuning, perform troubleshooting activities and develop script for middleware maintenance. Additionally, in case of any emergency, the senior technical analyst shall help perform Incident resolution, problem determination and root cause analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements.This role will report functionally to the Head of Middleware in RTB team, and will work to ensure world class technology solutions that enable business success in our China entities. This will include ensuring direct and consumed services meet business and regulatory needs. 

The person in this role will be commercially astute, an excellent communicator and able to partner strongly with executive level IT and business stakeholders (network team, infra team, users, etc.) and regulators. They will work with business leaders to define technology strategies, create new solutions and drive a culture of continuous improvement. They will also be partnering with other COO and IT counterparts, at various executive levels of the organization including regional and in-country leadership (CEO, COO, CIO).

What you’ll do:

• Run the open platform by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of IT system healthy.
• Build tools and automation to manage platform infrastructure and services.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time efficiency to upgrade cluster and service versions.
• Measure and optimize system performance and resource utilization, and plan for future capacity.
• Build dashboards and visualizations to graph system health.
• Define system alerts and automate responses where possible.
• Provide operational support and engineering for multiple software development teams.
• Work with the senior team members on driving the platform forward to align with the Banks 2027 goals.
• Please be noted that this position carries potential consequence management from regulator in case of significant system outage lead to business impact or violation of regulations.

• More than 10 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure support, especially Middleware domain, or administrative Knowledge with practical hands-on of Middleware product on multiple platforms such as UNIX, Linux, Windows in production support. It is better to know with automation tools (AAP, Jenkins, etc) and can automate and optimize the operations using shell/ PERL/python scripts or other tools.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues related to application hosting infrastructure across DEV, UAT, Production, Contingency environments including WebSphere Application Server, Websphere Liberty Profile, WebSphere MQ, BPM server, IBM HTTP Server and provide support through 24 x 7 window.
• Knowledge of MQ on backup and recovery procedures of the MQ objects/messages. High Availability(HA) features.
• Provide ongoing support for problem records, identify problem situations, review the problems, engage associates to plan for investigation, work on Root Cause Analysis & solution in coordination with application teams.

What additional skills will be good to have?

• A solid understanding of UNIX and LINUX.
  
• Experience with Veritas Cluster Server.
  
• Knowledge of heap dump / thread dump analysis.
  
• Experience using industry monitoring tools. (e.g ITM/App Dynamics)
  
• Experience working within an agile environment.
  
• Highly motivated with a positive and proactive attitude.
  
•  Good written and spoken communication skills in English and Chinese.
  

Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.

Link to Candidate User Guide:

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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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