Lead Software Engineer

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Your career opportunity

Group Functions Technology Department brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti-money laundering: transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessment etc. and is dedicated to implement the most effective global standards to combat financial crime.Risk & Compliance technology design and deploy cutting edge technology to defend the bank and its customers from Sanctions Risk, Financial Crime Risk, Identity Threat, Unauthorised Trading and Market Abuse & Regulatory Sanctions, as well as supporting Enterprise Risk Management.  We provide the systems that enable our global businesses to grow through data-driven, pro-active risk management.

Role Overview: 

Within Compliance Control team, we use technology to ensure that HSBC complies with regulatory guidelines applicable to the prevention and detection of any market manipulation attempts.  
The surveillance solutions are heavily dependent on data from internal trading systems and other Compliance systems, as well as market data and news sources.

What you’ll do
 
•    Design and develop robust technical solutions.
•    Speak to product owner and business on features and requirements.
•    Automate testing and deployment of small and frequent releases.
•    Production availability of your service – if you build the service you own the service.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

•    5+ Year experience in Software development, Strong Java skills 
•    Very good understanding of Spring framework, including Spring Boot
•    SQL and big data volumes transformation experience
•    Strong understanding of CD/CI – Jenkins, Git, Ansible or similar tools
•    Familiarity with ELK monitoring stack, Airflow – Good to have
•    Familiarity with Spark or other Big Data tools – Good to have
•    Excellent analysis and problem solving skills, ability to deliver against tight deadlines
•    Strong communication, self-motivation, willingness to take responsibility with minimal supervision 

What we offer

• Online behavioural test (for external candidates)
• Telephone screen (for external candidates)
• Job interview with the hiring manager