Job description
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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 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 realize their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering
In this role, you will:
An opportunity has arisen for a Agile Java Developer and Level 2 Support Team Leader to lead of a specialist Technical Level 2 team for KYC and Customer Due Diligence Technology in the one of the India offices. Managing Development support and none development support personal in two sites in India. The ideal applicant will have experience development and of leading a technical team. They will also be required to perform the role of Incident Commander when the needs arise and liaise with global functional manager in the UK.
Purpose
This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:
- Lead the quick and effective resolution of production support and defect management with team members and with the customer/user experience as a key objective.
- Actively contributes to Technology Engineering Practice by sharing Subject Matter Expertise from their area of specialism, best practice and learnings and coaching of team members.
- Drives adherence to all standards and policies within their area of devops technology.
- Delivery and support of data accuracy related infrastructure withing the banks systems to ensure correct customer outcomes.
- Guide the team to priorities and deliver application fixes and defect resolution management.
- Ensure the team compliance with service management SLAs and define metrics.
- Ensure service resilience,
Responsibilities
- The Specialist Engineer role will be responsible for providing team leadership and engineering expertise to the APS Level 2 team, which may include but is not limited to data engineering, security engineering, front-end engineering, user experience engineering.
- They may be responsible for supporting platforms specific to a HSBC business area that requires specialist Technology engineering expertise.
- They may be accountable for a product or service within a Technology engineering specialism, or they may provide subject matter expertise to one or more Technology teams on the area of their Technology engineering specialism.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
Knowledge & Experience
Must have
- Solid demonstratable team leadership skills.
- Excellent incident management skills
- Excellent core Java skills
- Excellent Spring/Hibernate skills
- Experience with ORACLE database
- Software engineering best practices including: TDD, design patterns, unit testing with Junit and Mockito, clean code, continuous integration (using Jenkins) and continuous deployment
- Agile development, in particular Scrum and XP; comfortable with practices like pair programming and code review
- Must be comfortable using Unix and should be good with common Shell commands/Scripting
- Able to proactively lead in incident crisis calls and communicate effectively with internal customers and senior stakeholder alike.
- Excellent spoken and written English including communication of complete technical language in easy-to-understand plain English.
Highly desirable
- 3+years of Team leadership experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in large scale, enterprise application software development
- Exposure to Financial Services environment
- Ability to work effectively with distributed, global teams
Nice to have
- Good understanding of concurrency, multi-threading and thread safety
- DevOps experience using Docker, Puppet, Chef
- User interface development using web-based technologies such as AngularJS React
- Experience with Microservices architecture and distribute applications
- Developing application using NoSQL and or Graph databases such as MongoDB
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India