# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774612594733?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Some careers have more impact than others. If you're looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you'll be.

Principal responsibilities:

- 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).

- 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.

- 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).

- 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).

- 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)

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Spring Cloud
- RESTful API design
- Linux
- UNIX
- shell scripting
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Grafana
- Loki
- Prometheus
- Tempo
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL

### Nice to have
- HSBC ITSO experience
- Investment banking / CCR domain familiarity
- Architecture experience
- GCP/AWS experience
- Python/Jupyter
- Evidence of engineering community contribution

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