GSC: Technical Leader

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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.

Your career opportunity
In today’s digital world, HSBC needs to continuously develop innovative ways of customer interaction with our products and services. We are building new technology and enhancing our existing systems and offerings, to allow us to maximise the benefits of the latest technological advancements and trends.

This role will be within the Digital Identity Sub Value Stream (DI SVS). DI SVS is focused on identifying and working with some of the most interesting external vendors from around the world to provide cutting edge products to the wider bank and our more than 40 million global customers.

One of our most strategic products is a global Digital Identity Validation & Authentication service that provides any market with the ability to verify a person’s identity, via an API integration. We partner with a selection of third-party vendors to deliver real time identity and anti-impersonation checks as part of a digital journey.

Our product enables customer to capture their government issued identity document (including passport, driver’s license, national ID card) and verifies the document’s authenticity. This is then combined with fully digital anti-impersonation check.

What you’ll do

·  Ensuring quality of the solutions being developed and maintained and managing technical risks 
·  Championing good developer practice for the team, including ensuring that best practices are implemented and followed 
·  Guiding and supporting the development of team members and the application they build 
·  Helping drive the architectural discussions related to the solutions being developed by the team with different stakeholders, this includes working closely with the product owners, architects, product manager, delivery leads, among others. 
·  Supervising development activities and while doing so taking into consideration short- and long-term consequences of technical decisions 
·  Defining, building and testing technical solutions in an agile environment. The platform is primary using Java & Javascript (React.js) hosted on public cloud  
·  Writing infrastructure terraform/cloud formation and CI/CD pipelines in groovy 
·  Writing unit tests in spock, e2e tests in cucumber, contract based tests in PACT 
·  Defining architecture and solutions including R&D on cloud and 3rd party vendors' services

What you need to have to succeed in this role

·  Experience in managing IT solutions development and maintenance in a complex organisational and IT environment 
·  Leadership abilities to help solve problems 
·  Strong technical skills specifically in cloud based technology (AWS serverless or, other public cloud is essential) and Java 
·  Experience with microservices architecture 
·  DevOps experience, especially with terraform  
·  Quality driven with ability to write tests on any level with BDD & TDD approach 
·  Understanding of front end technologies including Java Script, Android and iOS is a plus 
·  Comfortable working agile environment in a small cross functional team using XP practices 
·  Good English both oral and written is essential 
·  Good communication skills in order to effectively explain complex technical concepts to wide variety of stakeholders

What we offer

·  Competitive salary
·  Annual performance-based bonus
·  Additional bonuses for recognition awards
·  Multisport card
·  Private medical care
·  Life insurance
·  One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
·  Corporate parties & events
·  CSR initiatives
·  Nursery discounts
·  Financial support with trainings and education
·  Social fund
·  Flexible working hours 
·  Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

·  Online assessment (for external candidates only).
·  Telephone screen (for external candidates only).
·  Interview with the hiring manager. 

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.
In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: krakow.recruitment@hsbc.com