HSBC Group

Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC, we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.  

 In Canada, HSBC Global Services (Canada) Limited (HGCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Global Services Limited.  Operating in Toronto and Vancouver, HGCA is part of a global service company, delivering services to support the operating entities of HSBC Group.  We have different capabilities that provide tools and processes to facilitate the functions, business and entities with their service management responsibilities

About Us 

 MSS Tech is a c.7,000-strong diverse, talented, and resilient engineering group that partners with our business and wider-bank colleagues to deliver industry-leading technology services. Our clients feel safe in the knowledge that, for us, production always comes first, anything less is failure. We constantly challenge boundaries, whilst engineering with safety and security. Continually building on our strongest assets - our people, maximizing our potential, continuously stretching what it means to be a high performing organization.

About the Role

Market Operations Technology solves some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Shipping code early and often using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the center of everything we do.

We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment. We are looking for the brightest and best developers to take our capability forward.

The Post trade Technology team manages the back-office processing systems that performs Clearance, Settlement and Custody functions across Fixed Income and Equities products for US markets. 

The team develops and maintains in-house systems along with managing vendor hosted SaaS solutions.

The team spans multiple locations across New York, Toronto, Hyderabad and Pune.

Working as part of the Post trade Technology team the candidate should be a Java expert, with prior coding experience in large-scaled complex systems, preferably in the financial industry.   Exposure to GCP will be valuable to expand our business solutions on the public cloud.  

The candidate is required to be involved in production support (via a rota) and be proactively engaged in improvements on automation.  With the right candidate, there is potential for the new hire to grow into a technical lead for the region.

 As our Full Stack Engineer, you will:  

·         Function as a senior member of MSSOT US Post Trade Technology team and work closely with the functional and regional teams in the USA and India.

·         Act as technology expert and the point of contact for all the application development related activities.

·         Accountable for key technology stack in equities and fixed income post trade systems. Ensure changes are successfully developed, tested, and rolled out and supported.

·         Collaborate with local and onsite leads to prioritize and deliver required enhancements while maintaining high performance levels.

·         Identify opportunities to automate, improve efficiency and optimize cost through business and process flow re-engineering and platform re-engineering leveraging in-depth understanding of Equity Post Trade Life cycle processes.

·         Adopt Agile and DevOps methodologies in software development practices. Ensure automation tools are utilized throughout the life cycle.

·         Define and execute superior Service Level Agreement based procedures for a 24/5 production cycle for all Post trade systems regionally.

 What Your Day will Look Like

·         Design, develop, and implement innovative technology solutions for Market Operations team and Repo trading desk

·         Ensuring technology systems are reliable to handle wide user base within the organization and sustainable with a cost focus.

·         Required to provide support for Fixed Income and Equities Post Trade systems as business demands dictate in the region.

·         Handle inquiries from business users and stake holders; Required to handle out-of-hours Releases, Changes, and other infrastructure maintenance activities.

·         Maintain the infrastructure estate by periodic upgrades, patches, addressing any security vulnerabilities, managing capacity and disaster recovery procedures. 

·         Develop and maintain an information repository of application material that can be accessed by team resources.

·         Regularly communicate with an extensive client base to provide status updates, successful solutions as well documenting all activities for future reference while overseeing local and offshore support team in logging and resolving all problem calls

You´ll likely have the following qualifications to succeed in this role:  

•          Object orientated programming concepts and experience in Java.
•          Designing and implementing scalable web services, REST APIs
•          Strong experience with Java Spring Boot
•          Advanced knowledge of front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript or Angular framework.
•          Relational databases – PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and experience with complex SQL queries.
•          Exposure to one of the distributed data warehouses – BigQuery or Redshift or Snowflake
•          Proficiency with workflow orchestration concepts.
•          Unix Shell scripting
•          Experience migrating applications to the cloud.
•          Working knowledge of distributed architecture systems based on microservices
•          Logical thinking and good problem solving Skills
•          Proven ability to communicate effectively
•          Team Player and Ability to work flexibly
•          Proven strength of dealing with senior business specialists
•          Organization and operational optimization change management experience 
•          Change Management & Incident Management Experience
•          Understanding of ITIL Fundamentals and Methodology

Skills preferred, but not mandatory:

•          Working experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
•          Exposure to React / NodeJS will be a plus
•          Experience in the skills following is beneficial: DevOps and CI/CD tools - Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform
•          Geneos / Grafana Monitoring
•          RTC, JIRA, Confluence, Control-M
•          Exposure to Broadridge systems such as Impact and BPS/A – understanding of database and table relationships to produce various reports / dashboards for the various stakeholders
•          Understanding of investment bank front and back-office process flows, including those from upstream and downstream systems
•          Understanding of investment bank exposure to SOX and other regulatory controls.

 In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in Canada. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position. 

 As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee’s overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a “bonus”). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle. 

 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.