Consultant Specialist

of Consultant Specialist. Business: Fin, Supervision and TR Tech Job ID: 59595 Principal responsibilities:

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   Modern engineering & platform transformation • Continuously improve stability, scalability, and operability (SRE-style focus). • Align the application with CCR FSA standards and engineering guardrails. • Adopt and embed advanced engineering practices across the pod (quality, automation, secure-by-design).

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   Full delivery lifecycle ownership • Implement solutions end-to-end: impact assessment, performance tuning, testing, deployment. • Move fluidly between development, testing, and production support based on demand. • Reduce operational pain (TOIL reduction) via automation and better diagnostics.

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   DevSecOps and controls • Improve OKRs such as release cadence, incident reduction, and operational efficiency. • Ensure compliance with IT risk and controls (including secure configuration, auditability, change discipline).

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   Engineering leadership & collaboration • Lead/guide developers where needed; drive consistent standards across the team. • Operate effectively in a global, distributed environment with strong spoken English. • Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis)

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   Ways of working • Strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines • Ability to lead developers and land “meaningful changes” that improve business outcomes sustainably Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications: Java (Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud) RESTful API design and implementation Linux/UNIX + shell scripting for diagnostics/automation Container & CI/CD ecosystem • Docker + Kubernetes • Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible and CI/CD patterns (build, test, deploy, rollback) Observability / reliability tooling • Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo • Practical ability to define SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, tracing strategies, and to use these in incident resolution Data • Oracle (or equivalent enterprise RDBMS) and PostgreSQL • Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis) Ways of working • Strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines • Ability to lead developers and land “meaningful changes” that improve business outcomes sustainably What additional skills will be good to have? • HSBC ITSO experience (controls, governance, risk awareness in delivery) • Investment banking / CCR domain familiarity • Architecture experience (especially microservices, gRPC, cloud-native patterns) • GCP/AWS experience or certifications • Python/Jupyter (often useful for analysis, tooling, automation) • Evidence of engineering community contribution (open source, GitHub, blogs) Job Board Tags: /WX/51/LP 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

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