Engineering Lead/Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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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 a Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

We are working on an application XSSL (Cross Product Settlement Service Layer). XSSL provides Integration services to the HSBC Markets systems that are involved in Payment and other Settlement related processing, connecting them to the systems implemented in the retail bank that hold our accounts, payment creation systems and the gateways to external systems such as the Swift network and local RTGS. We refer to these retail systems as being owned by DBS (Digital Business Services) to distinguish them from the systems owned by Markets (under Markets and Securities Settlements - MSS).

The functions XSSL provides:

• Technical Validation - mainly structural eg xml schema validation - catching breaks early and handling within Markets rather than in DBS
• Business Validation - permission to act - Is system x allowed to submit payment type y on behalf of entity z
• Routing and distribution (fan out)
• Transformation and enrichment
• Lightweight Orchestration - managing lifecycle or status updates
• Transport Protocol mediation - eg async messaging to syncronous API

Current focus for XSSL is ISO20022/ SWIFT change global programme.
ISO20022 is a market driven mandatory, global payments directive which will migrate all payment messages from existing MT message format into the new MX format.

In this role, you will:

• ITSO ownership of all Risk & Controls issues
• Managing XSSL Development Team, including multiple POD teams to delivery business functionalities in DevOps approach
• Work as an application analyst/developer to provide application solutions to the business
• Work with the business and recommend viable IT solutions to meet these requirements
• Analyse business needs and recommend viable IT solutions to meet these requirements
• Design, develop and implement IT solutions to meet business needs, according to established standards and best practices
• Facilitate communication among key stakeholders
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and business contacts
• Manage activities within project delivery to the business within the agreed timeframes, cost and levels of quality
• Conduct and support testing to ensure the quality of all deliverables
• Produce documentation on system solutions to ensure their maintainability and smooth implementation
• Maintain production stabilities and provide support to production incidents

• To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
• A university graduate with degree in IT or a related discipline
• A minimum of 6 years of IT experience in business system development environment, preferably working on large, complex global projects for investment banking business
• Solid experience on automated testing, DevOps tools and CI/CD pipeline setup
• Experience in development and support of banking application, application production support management
• Hands-on application development experience in Java and Linux
• Project management, change management and time management skills excellent knowledge of project life cycle
• A fast learner with effective planning, organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills with fluent written and spoken English
• Proactive, possess an outgoing personality, self-driven and able to work independently and under pressure
• Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge and experience in the following areas are advantages:
• SWIFT massaging/ ISO20022 exposure
• Treasury products/systems and back-office process workflows

Technical skills:

• Must:
  • Vulnerabilities management
  • Java (version 8), Tomcat, Jetty
  • Sprint boot Framework
  • Javascript, html
  • Oracle Coherence, Oracle Database
  • Collaboration tools: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub.
  • CI/CD tools: Maven, Jenkins, Ansible
  • Linux
  • Agile methodology
• Nice to have:
  • UI development experience
  • Microservice architecture

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Issued by - HSBC Software Development India