# Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**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 Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

**Principal Responsibilities**

- Front to back ownership of delivery of a product (from requirement to production)

- Provides value during production incidents even for things that they haven't necessarily been involved in coding

- Subject Matter Expertise in an area such as: devops, security, accessibility, agile, production governance etc

- Ability to break down a programme of work into manageable deliveries

- Hands-on Java, Database & Linux design and development experience and ideally a Java SME, especially in Database design and tuning area

- Strong analytical skills, able to understand the key business pain points, guide the development team to come up effective technical solution

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Able to explain technical options, provide professional recommendations and facilitate decision making

- Have experience in micro service design and implementation

- Have experience in Cloud related design and implementation

- Results-oriented; takes responsibility and gets the job done

- Self-driven; can work without close supervision

- Fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese, English speaking, reading and writing skill

- Experienced to provide L3 support to address any overnight batch jobs related issue for critical business processes

- Has a technical vision and can define a strategy of how to change a product to reach the vision

- Ability to step into the Production Support Management (PSM) role

- Helps remove impediments to team's productivity

- Builds trusted relationships with the business and has a good appreciation of the business domain they work in

**Requirements**

- Minimum 10 years relevant working experience in Java, Node.js, Database, Linux and open source Frameworks

- Proficient with micro service architecture, live-live design, spring cloud solution, API gateway/authentication

- Proficient with Java and server-side web or cloud based development, using Java EE, Spring (Batch, Integration, MVC), Spring-Boot, Hibernate/JPA, Mybatis

- Proficient with automation CI/CD tooling, Jenkins pipeline, Building tool Maven/Gradle/NPM, Repository Nexus, Deployment tool G3/ansible

- Proficient with database / data driven web or cloud based applications. Key technologies: SQL (Oracle/Postgrel), other lightweight DB such as H2 for testing

- Knowledge and experience in new Java technologies, JavaRX, Vert.x, Netty/webflux

- Knowledge and experience in non-SQL databases, such as MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB

- Knowledge and experience in Agility developing methods, such as Scrum, Kanban

- Windows, DOS scripting or Linus shell script

- Development experience with OO design and design patterns. Ability to develop in all tiers of the application (presentation, business and database)

- Experience in Database design and Oracle/SQL performance tuning/Optimization

- Familiar with or able to rapidly adapt to HSBC organisational policies, practices and standards

- Proactive and willing to learn new technologies, e.g. big data, Cloud

- Knowledge and experience in micro services

- Develops talent within the team and helps create opportunities for junior team members

- Ability to build a case explaining benefits to address technical debt / platform improvement

- Chairs retros across different teams

- Communicate clearly with others - summarise ideas without getting lost in detail

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Database
- Linux
- Microservice architecture
- Spring cloud solution
- API gateway/authentication
- Java EE
- Spring
- Hibernate/JPA
- Mybatis
- Automation CI/CD tooling
- Jenkins pipeline
- Maven/Gradle/NPM
- Repository Nexus
- Deployment tool G3/ansible
- SQL
- Oracle/Postgrel
- H2
- JavaRX
- Vert.x
- Netty/webflux
- MongoDB
- Redis
- InfluxDB
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Windows
- DOS scripting
- Linus shell script
- OO design
- Design patterns

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