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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Consultant Specialist.
Business: GPBW and AMG Tech
Principal responsibilities
Provide technical leadership in delivering GPB&W+AM projects that aligns with all FSA directions and standards through cross organization consulting and direct involvement in development efforts. Communicate with relevant stake holder regarding resolving issues related to delivery of projects. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ITID, Vendor, Business user and other relevant stakeholder to resolve production queries or incidents with work around and long-term solution. Present, develop and apply program fix on Application defects according to HSBC Change Management standard. Ability to influence key stakeholders in order to achieve the best desired outcome. Understanding the functional and non-functional requirements through regular interactions with the Business Analysts, SMEs and Solution Architects. Take lead in designing the solution which is more reusable and maintainable. Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities. Breaking down the system functions into multiple-tier API layers and micro services Provides accurate estimates and status to management, raising issues appropriately. Ensure that development is done with the highest quality measured by defect counts and defect ratios. Provide Application incident on-call support during off business hours, and provide Weekend/Public Holiday Application Support per project delivery and Business needs. Requirements
University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant discipline Strong experience in Java 8 or above, Spring, Restful Services, Spring Boot and micro-service based architectures. Good track record of delivering change on architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions, preferably in a financial institution. Experience in using HTTP/RESTful APIs, and Java Script frameworks (React JS, Angular JS, Good understanding of both RDBMS & No SQL databases technologies such as DB2, Postgres, Mongo DB, Redis or equivalent. Experience of containerization, ideally using Docker / Kubernetes. Hands-on technical expertise, acquired through delivering Cloud technologies (Ali Cloud, AWS and / or Azure) into a large enterprise. Strong experience in Dev Ops tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or equivalent. Good understanding with messaging services such IBM MQ, Kafka or equivalent. Strong work ethic and team player experienced working with Scrum/Agile development methodologies. Real passion for elegance and efficiency in software engineering and always strive for continuous improvements via automated processes. Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills. Excellent written and spoken communication skills and fluent in English. Nice to have:
Demonstrable experience of designing Cloud solutions using a combination of cloud native, 3rd party and on premise technologies. Good understanding of the challenges and constraints of migrating from existing systems and platforms to Cloud based technologies. Good understanding of micro services and service mesh concepts like Istio, Nginx. Experience in deployment & configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible. Prior experience in Banking and Financial product knowledge is an advantage.
