Job 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 Consultant Specialist.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Act as the key technical enabler for the China-based team to manage and evolve CDMS-related services.
• Drive technology decisions that improve customer journey and overall user experience.
• Understand, clarify, and refine business/functional requirements; produce detailed technical designs for development teams.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications and services for customer journey initiatives.
• Lead architecture and solution design with a strong focus on Java/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud best practices.
• Perform code reviews and enforce high coding standards, secure coding principles, and engineering quality gates.
• Promote and implement suitable design patterns to improve code flexibility, maintainability, and reuse.
• Lead and coach developers (especially junior/new team members) to achieve delivery goals and engineering metrics.
• Ensure robust production support and service management model, including collaboration with 3rd-party providers where needed.
• Manage incident/problem resolution within agreed SLAs and drive root-cause fixes/preventive actions.
• Partner with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, release reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Support China delivery capability uplift through knowledge sharing, standards, and technical mentoring.
• Support and participate in department management and strategic technology initiatives.
• Contribute to AI-enabled engineering and business solutions (e.g., intelligent automation, recommendation/assistant capabilities, AI service integration) where relevant to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.
• Continuously benchmark system performance and lead optimization initiatives across application, database, and integration layers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong track record as a Senior Java Developer / Tech Lead.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, J2EE, and SQL technologies; passionate about adopting new technologies.
• Strong proficiency in Java and solid object-oriented analysis/design/programming fundamentals.
• Deep hands-on experience with Spring Boot and good knowledge of Spring Cloud and microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with RESTful API design/development; practical knowledge of API technologies such as REST and WebSocket.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with relational databases and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Good understanding of event-driven architecture and brokers such as Kafka.
• Familiarity with software design patterns and clean architecture practices.
• Experience in containerization and orchestration, ideally Docker + Kubernetes.
• Working experience in DevOps/Agile delivery environments is a plus.
• Practical experience with Git, Jenkins, Sonar (or equivalent CI/CD and code quality tooling).
• Strong ability to understand business requirements in written English and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Good knowledge of benchmarking, profiling, and performance optimization.
• Exposure to or hands-on experience in AI-related development/integration (e.g., LLM/API integration, intelligent workflow automation, AI-assisted features) is highly preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, ownership mindset, and ability to lead under delivery pressure.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited Xian Branch***