Java Backend engineer / Associate Director

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director Specialist Engineering at HSBC.

In this role, you will:

• Design and engineer software with the customer/user experience as a key objective.
• Actively contribute to Technology Engineering Practice by sharing Subject Matter Expertise from your area of specialism, best practice, and learnings.
• Drive adherence to all standards and policies within your area of Technology Engineering.
• Deliver and support data-related infrastructure and architecture to optimise data storage and consumption across the bank, including addressing functional and non-functional requirements relevant to data in large applications.
• Design and develop applications for internal and external users, focusing on the interface and front-end usability of the application.
• Engineer and implement security measures for the protection of internal and external systems, networks, products, and services.
• Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimise variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organisational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members.
• Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team.
• Manage stakeholder communications and help implement an effective system of project governance.

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

• Knowledge of Java and Cloud Technologies and related products.
• Experience in Java, SpringBoot, Kubernetes & Docker, MongoDB, SQL, Micro Service Design, Kafka, GCP.
• Experience in designing and implementing DevOps Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Pipeline.
• Experience supporting middleware/database design, build, and troubleshooting in development and production environments.
• Experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Geneos, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
• Experience in agile and DevOps environment using team collaboration tools such as Jenkins, Github, Confluence, and JIRA.
• Working with Ops, Dev, and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect-related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release/change.
• Provide support in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by leadership of the DevOps team.
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability, and recovery time objectives are met for all software solutions delivered.
• Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies, and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency, etc. that are applicable.
• Technical leadership of a large team of developers and help development of team capabilities. Work with senior business stakeholders.
• Having knowledge of GRC domain will be an advantage, e.g., designed systems which do Risks and Control assessments. Knowledge of Products such as Open Pages, Archer, Metrix streams, Service now IRM will be good to have.