Senior Consultant Specialist

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 collaborate with stakeholders across business, architects, leadership team, service line heads to deliver sharable engineering artifacts.

Principal responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across business, architects, leadership team, service line heads to deliver sharable engineering artifacts.
• Work with Tech PO and Tech lead to shape the scope and convert it to tangible items.
• Collaborate with central teams (architecture, security, engineering, networks) who are responsible for delivering HSBC baseline cloud architecture.
• Collaborate with service lines to co-design and set up common standards and practice, to avoid duplicated technical artifacts.
• Ensure DevSecOps capabilities are built in as part of the solution.
• Ensure solution aligns with FSA.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack, cloud-native software engineering.
• Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS certification.
• Strong Java experience, including Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Microservices and API-first design and development, including end-to-end service design, deployment, and operations.
• API gateway experience (e.g., Zuul or equivalent).
• Containerisation and orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud services such as storage and serverless functions (e.g., Cloud Functions or equivalent).
• Service mesh experience.
• Security/IAM experience, including roles/entitlements and service accounts; familiarity with AD/AD LDS.
• Strong database skills across SQL and NoSQL; ability to perform data analysis (dbt preferred).
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance.
• DevSecOps principles and automation using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and GitHub.
• Event-driven architecture and data streaming experience (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka/Confluent, Dataproc or equivalent).
• Service observability (logging, monitoring, tracing) experience.
• Caching implementation experience.
• Hands-on UI development experience (React.js preferred).
• Understanding of LLMs and hands-on experience building AI applications and/or AI agents.
• Agile delivery experience and tools (Scrum/Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• Strong problem-solving skills; able to work independently under pressure.
• Strong written and spoken English; able to explain complex ideas clearly.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience in Banking and Financial Services with good understanding of the legal and compliance business.
• Good communication (verbal & written) skillset to explain complex ideas.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment;
• Keen to learn and keen to mentor.
• Experience in delivering complex solutions at large organisations of varying size and complexity.
• Experience working in a global environment.
• Highly motivated, outcome driven and results oriented with the ability to prioritize and drive measurable value.
• Innovative.