Job Description

Job descriptionSome careers shine brighter than others.If youre 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 Lead Consultant SpecialistOur department is currently c.350 people strong, based across multiple locations. Most of our teams are co-located but some of our teams work across geographies. We love flexible working and self-organising teams and are enjoying new means of collaboration as part of HSBC's hybrid working strategy.
We believe in flow; small, low risk, non-breaking, frequent changes that are flowing to production all the time. As a team we will get through hundreds of changes a day, and in 2022 the team delivered 40k changes to production. We\'ve set ourselves an even higher target for 2023!
Our customers are important to us. There is no point building a product if customers can\'t use it. As a result, we treat our production environment for customers with the highest of priorities. If you build it, you support it.
We value specialism but we also expect our team members to do whatever it takes to get the job done. That might mean doing the analysis for a story, or working on changing a front-end component even if you are a specialist server-side developer. Whilst this may put you outside of your comfort zone , we have found that this is a great opportunity to learn - there are plenty of people to help and you will always find someone that is willing to pair with you. You're never on your own!In this role, you will:

• Work with a team of 4 - 6 people with a dedicated product owner. Most teams are in a single location, but it can be geographically dispersed
• Take a business requirement, divide it up into stories and deliver each story iteratively to production.
• Product support is integral to the role - we have a saying, the team builds it, the team supports it.
• Identify areas of technical debt, ensure a healthy balance of tech debt and new functionality is prioritised and worked on
• For new items one needs to design the solution and ensure that it follows technology guidelines and constraints
• Pairing with other members of the team
• Work with other team members and liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development.
• Draw-up detailed technical designs for components in response to business requirements and high-level technical architecture
• Implement 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)
• Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing
• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments
• Developers in our team are expected to own the end to end delivery of software from analysis through to release to production and support. We work in small iterative cycles and typically release software daily to production.
• Everyone in our team releases code to production, everyone in our team raises production change requests, everyone in our team does production support. Everyone.
• Participate in intra-day and overnight(rarely, when called)Support

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

• We are looking for people who are flexible in their approach, enjoy technology and who are happy to try new things, as well as being comfortable in throwing experiments away if they dont work. Controlled failure is considered an opportunity to learn.
• We currently write software in the following languages: java, javascript, clojure, kotlin, nodeJS, bash(!), python within Linux/unix environments. We work on PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server Databases. We're not a big fan of frameworks but it's a team choice and a lot of teams have adopted react and vue for front end. You don\'t need to be an expert in any of these languages, but we do expect a willingness to learn.
• We\'d love to hear from people that are using technology that we\'ve not adopted yet. For example, if you have worked with elm, julia, haskell, rust that would be great!
• You don\'t need to have prior experience working for an investment bank. In fact, we\'d love to hear from more people working outside banking to see if they can bring a twist to what we do and help us grow our culture.
• Understands and practices agile software development and management
• Produces quality metrics on the SDLC process
• Ensures team software is monitorable.
• Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team
• Continues to contribute bug fixes and small features without becoming a bottleneck for the team.

Youll achieve more when you join HSBC.
www.hsbc.com/careersHSBC is 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. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.Issued by - HSBC Software Development India

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