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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 organisations 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

In this role, you will:

• Forward plan and manage the Cloud Platform Release Calendar
• Coordinate across product, engineering, delivery, and SRE teams to plan and execute release process on a regular 2-week cadence within an agile delivery environment
• Form virtual release teams from the wider engineering community to ensure the right skillset mix for the release and provide over-arching management support for the team on weekends/evenings as required.
• Own platform release communications to both internal and external stakeholders pre, during, and post release
• Drive continuous risk assessment of release activity to ensure safety and reliability of platform services throughout.
• Feed our continuous improvement backlog by establishing a data driven methodology for measuring release risk, cadence, failure rates, and inefficiency thereby identifying improvement opportunities.
• Perform release post-mortems and retrospectives to ensure successful release completion, learn from failure, and manage any post-release fixes.
• Maintain and enhance the release process documentation repository.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements: 

• Minijmum 8 years of total experience is required.
• Have 5+ years’ experience in Release Management with deep understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Demonstrate excellent leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Have the ability to coordinate across multiple teams to ensure release plans are completed safely, in time, and on schedule
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills in driving appropriate and timely stakeholder management
• Possess strong understanding of CI/CD methodology and tools such as GIT, Jenkins, and Terraform
• Release management experience in a cloud services environment (AWS preferred)
• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts and implementations (e.g., EKS)
• Demonstrate a high level of motivation, be detailed oriented, quick to learn, and the ability to execute with high quality and minimal supervision.
• Learn from failure and tenaciously seek improvement in all areas of the release process.
• Experience in Financial Services delivering web, api, and microservices products a plus.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India