• Communicate with relevant stake holder regarding resolving issues related to delivery of projects.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ITID, Vendor, Business user and other relevant stakeholder to resolve production queries or incidents with work around and long term solution.

• Present, develop and apply program fix on Application defects according to HSBC Change Management standard.

• Ability to influence key stakeholders in order to achieve the best desired outcome

• Understanding the functional and non-functional requirements through regular interactions with the Business Analysts, SMEs and Solution Architects.

• Take lead in designing the solution which is more reusable and maintainable.

• Accountable for ensuring the design of the product solutions are cost effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.

• Breaking down the system functions into multiple-tier API layers and micro services

• Provides accurate estimates and status to management, raising issues appropriately.

• Ensure that development is done with the highest quality measured by defect counts and defect ratios

• Provide Application incident on-call support during off business hours, and provide Weekend/Public Holiday Application Support per project delivery and Business needs.

• A minimum of 10 years' IT software development experiences with strong experience in Java 8 or above, Spring, Restful Services, Spring Boot and micro-service based architectures.

• A track record of delivering change on architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions, preferably in a financial institution.

• Experience in using HTTP/RESTful APIs, and JavaScript frameworks (ReactJS, AngularJS, Vue.js)

• Good understanding of both RDBMS & NoSQL databases technologies such as DB2, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis or equivalent.

• Experience of containerization, ideally using Docker / Kubernetes.

• Hands-on technical expertise, acquired through delivering Cloud technologies (GCP, AWS and / or Azure) into a large enterprise.

• Strong experience in DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven or equivalent.

• Good understanding with messaging services such IBM MQ, Kafka or equivalent.

• Strong work ethic and team player experienced working with Scrum/Agile development methodologies

• Real passion for elegance and efficiency in software engineering and always strive for continuous improvements via automated processes

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and fluent in English

Nice to have:

• Demonstrable experience of designing Cloud solutions using a combination of cloud native, 3rd party and on premise technologies.

• Good understanding of the challenges and constraints of migrating from existing systems and platforms to Cloud based technologies.

• Good understanding of micro services and service mesh concepts like Istio, Nginx

• Experience in deployment & configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible

• Prior experience in Banking and Financial product knowledge is an advantage.