HSBC Group

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Some careers shine brighter than others.

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 Associate Lead Architect. 

In this role, you will:

The successful candidate undertaking this role will work alongside developers to code, inspire, support, and guide them in our journey to release quality, risk-free code with a high and consistent cadence, and will be expected to perform the following duties with a high level of competence:

• Work with and lead other team members and liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development.
• Hands-on coding and helping team members solve technical problems and provide technical SME knowledge and guidance.
• Forward thinking for devices, new technologies, and required accessibility.
• Guide developers in implementing best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing)
• Responsible for ensuring implemented solutions have sufficient and appropriate automated testing in advance of User Acceptance Testing
• Assist with and help to improve the deployment of components to all environments
• Lead from the front and demonstrate excellence in owning the end to end delivery of software from analysis through to release to production and support. We deliver each change to production before moving onto the next.
• Everyone in our team releases code to production, everyone in our team raises production change requests, everyone in our team does production support.
• Participate in intra-day, weekend and overnight support based on rota or need basis

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

The candidate should have demonstrable experience of Continuous Delivery software development methods, including TDD and automated testing (including non-functional testing), with the skillset and experience listed below:

• Java server side development experience is essential.
• Strong Java 8+ hands-on experience
• Strong / Good ReactJS and NodeJS hands-on experience
• HTML, Javascript, CSS hands-on experience is essential for this role
• Must be able to debug the existing code, extend the functionality and/or fix issues if any.
• Understanding of micro service architecture and ability to write REST APIs
• Good hands-on experience using Springboot
• Can write sensible tests to verify functionalities and endpoints
• Sound knowledge of Redux store
• Has prior hands-on experience around any CI-CD tooling. Candidate must be able to build a CI-CD pipeline independently for a new service / component.
• Always considers implementing Security around functionalities / services / endpoints
• Aware of working in Devops POD and exposure to production support processes
• Good Knowledge database schema design. Experience of SQL and relational databases, preferably PostGreSQL is essential.
• Experience of working in unix environments is essential.
• How to write Technical documentation
• How to liaise effectively with users – in this role this will be with relationship managers and business functions (eg. Legal, Ops, KYC).
• Demonstrable experience in leading multiple pods and working with multiple business stake-holders
• Experience of working in a front-office environment, client onboarding in an investment bank is advantageous
• Front Office development team in Large Investment Bank, supporting global trading desk

The successful candidate will also meet the following requirements:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• The ability to work within and lead teams
• A flexible approach to delivery responsibility
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform will be “nice to have

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.”

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development Centre***