Senior Software Engineer

Job description

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we're leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group. As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey. If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of SeniorSoftware Engineer.
Why join us
Enterprise Technology - Finance IT - Finance Regulatory Actuals team supports the Finance systems for regional credit risk management, capital adequacy financial analysis, BASEL capital calculations and Regulatory reporting.
The Opportunity:
Candidate will work on Finance IT system support and project delivery tasks, including end-to-end enhancement project delivery and production support. As part of the Finance On The Cloud (FOTC) project, existed application Fermat for PRA and HKMA migrate to GCP cloud is in progress, there are opportunities to work on the FOTC and BASEL 3 reform project tasks, using new skills like GCP, python. It also provides opportunities to work closely with other stake holders (e.g. Finance user, Finance Change Delivery team and other upstream and downstream IT teams etc) in different regions to understand the regulatory reporting requirements and provide related system solution with project plans.
Principal Responsibility:
. Work closely with Project Manager and Testing Lead to perform impact analysis, development, environment setup, batch run support, test and result checking tasks.
. Liaise with Project Manager/Testing Lead and other stakeholders to complete the whole testing process and identify any potential issues before project go-live.
. Adopts flexible working hours, may be required to work in roster and provide on-call support.
. Coach junior staff for testing/trouble shooting skills and guide them on daily work.
. Maintain HSBC internal control standards, implement and observe Group Compliance Policy and maintain awareness of operational risk and minimize the likelihood of it occurring.

Requirements

Requirements:
. University degree in computer science, information technology or a related discipline.
. Great technical skills and 3+ experience in Unix/Linux platform, Datastage, DB2, testing and trouble shooting.
. 2+ years exposure on infrastructure or evergreen project (e.g. environment setup, server upgrade, server patching, system fine tune).
. Strong analytical investigation, problem solving skills.
. Sound communication skills with good command of spoken and written English.
. Fast turnaround with outstanding quality output even for complex assignments.
. Compliance with external regulatory requirements, internal control standards and group compliance policy.
. Able to work under pressure to meet stressed deadline.
Nice to have:
. Able to communicate in Cantonese, written and spoken English will be an advantage.
. Experience in Banking project is an advantage.
Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.
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