# Senior Consultant Specialist

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Xi'an
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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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.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Architect. As a Lead Architect, you will be responsible for rapidly understanding business requirements through regular interactions with the CIB Chief Data Office (CDO), business users and other subject matter experts.

Key Responsibilities:

- Translating business requirements into solution designs and functional requirements.

- Building technical and logical designs.

- Communication of functional solutions to the development team plus ongoing support of the developers as needed.

- Working closely with the production support team to ensure all new software is well understood and readily supported.

- Active promotion of solution architecture, best practice techniques, standards and tools.

- Providing recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions.

- Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions.

- Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.

- Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.

- Developing proof-of-concept projects to validate your proposed solutions.

- Reviewing and validating solutions designs from other team members.

- Managing and defining the detailed end-to-end solution design for products and features in a way that supports the execution of the technology strategy and roadmap, articulating and addressing associated architectural risks, issues and technical debt.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years’ experience of working within a large, complex and geographically dispersed organisation (including matrix management structure and across time zones) as a Solution Architect.

- Ability to think logically and abstract the architectural patterns from the technical solutions.

- Strong leadership and an ability to articulate, present and obtain approval for solutions at the right level for a wide audience (IT and Business).

- Experience with Streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).

- Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices.

- Knowledge of database technologies: SQL / NoSQL.

- Knowledge of Data Warehousing & ETL / data integration aspects.

- Operating Systems & Scripting: Linux, Shell Scripting (Bash, AWK), PowerShell.

- Experience with any cloud platform: GCP, Azure, AWS.

- Experience with Big Data platforms: BQ, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks.

- Knowledge of containerization concepts: Docker, Kubernetes (IKP, GKE).

- Experience in designing with good understanding on abstraction techniques.

- Proven analysis skills with the ability to challenge designs / decisions.

- Experience in managing and resolving complex issues using proven analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to quickly get up to speed with the current data landscape and apply acquired analysis and data skills to new contexts and approaches.

- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.

- Strong planning, organisation and time management skills with a demonstrated ability to work to deadlines.

- Commercial acumen and ability to apply this to Business and IT data requirements.

- Self-awareness and with the confidence to work independently.

## Skills

### Required
- Streaming technologies
- Kafka
- Flink
- Pub/Sub
- Application integration patterns
- REST API
- Microservices
- Database technologies
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Data Warehousing & ETL
- Database integration aspects
- Operating Systems & Scripting
- Linux
- Shell Scripting
- Bash
- AWK
- PowerShell
- Cloud platform
- GCP
- Azure
- AWS
- Big Data platforms
- BQ
- Hadoop
- Spark
- Databricks
- Containerization concepts
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- IKP
- GKE
- Abstraction techniques
- Analysis skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Planning skills
- Time management skills
- Commercial acumen

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