Job description
Some careers have more impact than others.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 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 Assistant Vice President - Decision Science
Principal responsibilities
- Responsible for Implementing software strategically, following best practice to ensure that solutions address the evolving business and regulatory requirements;
- Work closely with the Quant Model teams to build software solutions that are practical, workable and comply with accounting, regulatory or other requirements;
- Ensure FIM and other applicable accounting/regulatory requirements are met. Liaise with Internal/External audit and regulators where necessary;
- Maintain focus on process optimisation and identify opportunities to enhance cost efficiency where possible (e.g. automation, outsourcing, centralisation etc).
- All issues identified and escalated with an appropriate action plan.
- Design, build and implement GRA Quantitative library. The success of this library will be measured against the time to deployment, time of turnover on bugs, test KPIs
- Delivery of a coding environment that is easy to use, is robust and can be fully re-used
- Managing and reducing the time to develop new models within GRA
- Work closely with GRA Quant Analysts, Risk IT, Transformation and Front Office to create synergies across different functions and departments
- Support the model development and strategies/monitoring dashboards
Requirements
- Graduation / Masters in a quantitative discipline / computer science
- At least 5-7 years of advanced experience in application and software development.
- Knowledge of finance, particularly quantitative finance
- Experience of Risk or Analytics.
- Good understanding and appreciation of Regulatory requirements and audit requirements.
- Experience of interacting with internal and external stakeholder groups (Business, Risk, Audit, Compliance, Regulators).
- Strong knowledge of Python programming language.
- Strong knowledge in object-oriented design, functional programming, software architecture and algorithms.
- Knowledge with software development lifecycle/methodologies.
- Proficiency in Pyspark, Pydash SQL, relational and noSQL databases.
- Knowledge of REST, gRPC, Apache Beam, Docker and Kubernetes is a nice to have.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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