Senior Software Engineer - Group Chief Information Officer

Job description

Job description

Some careers open more doors than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. 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 Digital Business Services is a pivotal part of the Group, providing essential operational and technical support to our global businesses and helping improve customer service and efficiency. Digital Business Services combines global expertise and technology to help keep us ahead of the competition.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Software Engineer.

Principal Responsibilities

In Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) Client Services we are building inhouse solutions to support the onboarding and KYC activities of our customers. Currently, we are building client facing applications for users to manage their activities with HSBC and orchestration capabilities to reduce the time it takes for clients and staff to complete these activities. In this role, you will be driving engineering excellence across a global team to transform both the culture and the technology across our KYC applications. 

In this role you will

·  Work closely with the CIB Client Services Engineering Leadership team, leading the engineering transformation across our Customer Due Diligence application
·  Design and building solutions using microservice architecture, working closely with the product team to understand requirements and impact of changes being made
·  Lead by example, delivering solutions at high cadence for the build out of both new functionality and the replacement of legacy systems whilst also supporting other teams to achieve the same
·  Work to release change to production every day, owning requirements through discussions with the business through to development, testing, release to and support of production
·  Promote engineering excellence and the development of a strong engineering culture across our teams – influencing behaviours and removing barriers within the teams

Requirements

To be successful you will need

·  Extensive experience building applications using non-breaking principles, particularly in developing RESTful APIs
·  Extensive experience developing microservices using highly iterative methods to deliver change to production regularly.  Experience delivering microservices without using frameworks like SpringBoot is a plus
·  Extensive experience working with Java, preferably more recent versions (17 and greater)
·  Extensive experience building and managing database schemas using PostgreSQL
·  Both experience in and a passion to influence global teams of engineers in transforming the engineering mindset and culture amongst the group
·  Experience dissecting business requirements and supporting teams to deliver them iteratively to production at high cadence without large planning cycles
·  Experience with building and supporting tooling for CI/CD on Kubernetes is a plus

Opening up a world of opportunity
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