# Senior Consultant Specialist

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

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist. As a Senior Consultant Specialist, you will be responsible for developing the most appropriate and secure Technology solutions using iterative software development/programming in line with the solution design, to meet customer needs, ensuring continuous improvement.

Principal responsibilities:

- Deliver RADAR platform technology capability, collaborate and drive the IT service and underlying PODs to delivery in line with architecture principles.

- Contribute to digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.

- Lead and inspire the team to achieve and exceed their goals.

- Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service’s direction.

- Working with the team to ensure operational issues are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.

- Create technical test plans and records, including unit and integration tests, within automated test environments to ensure code quality.

- Be involved and hands on in actual implementation of solutions, performing impact assessments, performance tuning, testing and deployments throughout the delivery cycle.

- Ensure the service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.

- Actively participate in and drive the mandatory exercises from time to time on resilience, recovery, and service management.

- Support on-call and work in Shifts as per the agreed plans when required.

- Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements:

- Qualification in Information Technology

- Experience in Information Technology, typically focused on software application development

- 7+ years’ experience in managing and leading a team in a technical environment

- Proven experience developing with one high level language – Java, Python etc

- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), web servers (e.g. Apache)

- Familiarity with micro services/services mesh development patterns

- Using Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run micro services

- Strong working knowledge of modern development technologies and tools such Agile, CI/CD, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins

- Hands-on experience with cloud-based technologies

- Ability to translate business level requirements to system level components or blocks

- Ability to review the deliverables from other team members

- Ability to understand the vulnerabilities and subsequent patching for infrastructure

- Ability to work in diverse global teams

- Ability to manage multiple challenging stakeholders globally with conflicting priorities.

- Experience in automated deployment, release management, deep understanding of CI/CD processes

- A natural technologist with proven tracking record in building system and team from scratch or delivering technology solutions with functional and non-functional similarities to Risk use cases.

- Role demands working in shifts and provide On-Call support to production system.

- Good knowledge on incident management and ability to lead the team from the front during incident/crisis calls

- Candidate will be required to continually enhance the skills within several specialisms which include gaining business knowledge, vendor product understanding, Impact Assessments, Development, Code Scanning and Deployments along with operational / business support.

- Excellent communication skill

- Fluent English speaker

- Great team work spirit

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Apache
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Agile
- CI/CD
- Git
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- cloud-based technologies

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