HSBC Group

Business: IWPB Technology

Open Positions: 1

Recruiter Name: Aaron Z Y Cai

Location: XA

Why join us?

WPB Technology is part of HSBC’s modernisation and simplification programme as we build the bank of the future for our customers. We align to the Vision '27 strategy focussed on Speed, Scale, Resilience and People, and delivers against our business strategy.We are looking for experienced and self-motivated IT professionals to boost our expansion globally.
Our work includes developing new means for customers to interact with the bank and the ones we are building for tomorrow, building and improving the underlying technology and innovating our propositions to take advantage of new technology and trends.
We are looking for collaborative thinkers and dreamers with the spirit to continue to make change happen. We champion brave new ideas that will transform future customer experiences.

The Opportunity:

The API Tech Lead role is accountable for leading POD team to deliver high quality APIs in technical perspective. Working under the direction of the API discipline and contributing to the tech lead community.
The tech lead is responsible for global standard/process adoption, delivery quality guarantee, production release and support in DevOps methodology. This is a critical role leading POD team to provide market-leading services.
The Delivery Lead is responsible for coordinating and managing the efforts of the development team, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards.  

What you’ll do:

• Work as part of Global Digital Engineering team with responsibility for API delivery.
• Collaborate with API Architects & Technical Platform Architects to understand& feedback for the established API best practice.
• Work with Global Enterprise/Solution Architects to review end-to-end technical design.
• Lead engineers to work on API delivery including API development & deployment with good quality & on schedule.
• Review/Ensure the technical design/code structure  is technically coherent and future proof and compliance with technology standards and regulatory obligations.
• Define project scope, list out priority of all items in project.
• Set up team goals, ensure every teammate aware and excute goal with time line.
• Define develop detailed project plan and schedules, ensure pod team delivery by the project plan.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders, make all stackholder aware project status and fix the block during delivery.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their requirements are met no matter scope but also for quality.
• Identify any issues that may arise to delivery risk, formulate preventive actions or corrective measures and timely escalate major project risks & issues to senior management.
• Provide professional consultancy/support immediately for application teams’ queries/requests.

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Solid and proficient skills in Java, Spring Framework, Web Service, JSON, RAML.
• Knowledge or experience in Enterprise Integration Platform (EIP) and API design with implementation experience on any ESB tools (e.g. IIB , Kong, MQ, SpringBoot).
• Knowledge and experience of DevOps, Microservice, Restful API, Agile concepts. SAFe Agilist certificate is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Splunk, Jira/Confluence, AppD, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Solid knowledge of SQL, DDL and database design.
• Solid knowledge of BDD, Continuous Integration, Selenium, continuous deployment and testing.
• Solid knowledge of external cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, or Ali Cloud.
• Track record in working on the delivery of complex deployment projects and under diversified/ matrix structure.
• Strong business sense with good understanding in how IT systems impact business objectives.
• Strong communication, presentation & influencing skills, able to operate well across cultures and in multi-cultural, diverse work environments.
• Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills.
• Excellent team player with ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Strong project planning and management skill, including but not limited in define project scope, goal, plan, schedule, monitor&track project progress and deliverables.
• Strong stakeholder management including communicate project status, stakeholder expectations.
• Strong risk management skill including but not limited in clear blocker, discover potential risk, fix risk and issue.
• Strong team coordination including but not limited in lead and motivate the development team, facilitate commucation and collaboration among team members.
• Strong quality assurance capability, ensure that the project meets quality standards, implement best practices and processes for development and delivery.
• Good command of written and spoken English. Mandarin is also preferred.
• Able to work at flexible hour for late evening meeting with colleagues in various regions, API deployment & production support.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Willing to learn/explore various technologies especially in Integration domain.

What additional skills will be good to have? 

• Test management / project management / scrum master hand-on experience will be a plus.
• Working in a global team with different cultures.
• Knowledge or experience in Cloud technologies adoption such as AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
• Knowledge in Cloud testing.
• Experience in API design is a plus.

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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