Job description
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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
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 Specialist
In this role you will:
- As a Release Manager you will be the “Change facilitator” as well as “Gatekeeper to production” at the same time for all technical releases balancing the two and therefore must demonstrate a sense of urgency, commitment to quality and a high accountability for all deliverables, communications, and overall performance.
- Lead end-to-end release ceremonies, such as Scope Evaluation, Go/No Go, retrospectives.
- Communicate upcoming technical releases in a clear and digestible format to stakeholders.
- Establish and adhere to governance processes and systems to ensure effective and efficient releases across the release lifecycle.
- Work with Agile Delivery teams to review status, risks, dependencies, and issues associated with each project and utilize problem solving thinking to find alternative solutions.
- Work with platform technical leads to define and assess the severity of every change going in a release and weigh the value vs risk of a change and seek necessary approvals from higher management to get the change moving on that basis
- Present changes in various IT Change Management forums and clearly explain technical aspects and risks.
- Organizing and managing cross functional deployment teams / resources to perform release deployment activities.
- Continuously seek to improve and set best practices across the release management.
- As a part of platform team member, get acquainted with platform features and other processes to improve release process so that the process compliments the platforms other pillars and improves platform in longer run by reducing vulnerabilities, risks and customer issues
Requirements
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- 10+ years hands-on experience running complex deployments and releases in a highly regulated industry.
- Strong technical understanding of platform technology and cloud deployments.
- Demonstrable experience of multi-tasking whilst delivering high quality outputs.
- Experience of working in large, complex global organizations which are regularly subject to changes.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of accountability for deliverables and overall performance.
- Proven ability to negotiate timescales and resources with delivery teams.
- Able to establish working relationships and connections across the organization.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, both written and verbally.
- Show high resilience and adaptability to various circumstances.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India