Consultant Specialist

Business: Banking UK Technology
Open Positions: Consultant Specialist
Location: Guangzhou

Why join us?
HSBC Business Banking UK offers digital solutions to help businesses manage their finances easily. We cater for all businesses that range from sole traders to medium sized enterprises. The Business Banking services are used by more than 600,000 businesses. We offer the following products:
- Business Internet Banking: A secure online web platform that lets businesses check balances, make payments and manage transactions anytime
- Business Banking Mobile: A fully native mobile app providing many features of Business Internet Banking for all business sizes
- HSBC Kinetic: A fully native mobile app designed for sole traders and small businesses, allowing quick account setup, expense tracking and smart insights
With these tools, HSBC makes banking convenient and accessible, whether they're running a small business or managing international operations.
The Opportunity: 
The Agile Lead takes responsibility for delivery and consultancy of CMB Tech UK Web projects leading the a team around 20+ people and have the opportunity to expand the team to 50+ people and more. The job holder contributes in successful delivery of projects by providing technical / application guidance to project teams and providing guidance to multiple project teams. The responsibilities entail areas such as conducting feasibility studies, requirement analysis, design and development, technology update, knowledge sharing, as well as coding. The role should be aligned with group standards, IT and business strategy, meet business objectives and satisfy all relevant regulatory, architecture standards and operational risk.
What you’ll do:
Understand Group and Wholesale strategy, help define technical strategy and execute which to fulfill business needs and aspirations on growth, management and control.
Plan for people and project management, provide coaching and guiding directly or indirectly to teams having developers, testers, analyst and architects inside by giving clear direction, feedbacks and timely suggestions to ensure a high quality standard of deliverables according to HSBC standards and best practices.
Address existing technical debt and drive for technical evolution aka Digital Transformation for the teams by working closely with various parties including business, SMEs, Solution Architects globally
Establish and maintain trustworthy relationships with business and relevant stakeholders.  Manage expectation of key stakeholders and work jointly to maximize interest of business and customers
Manage supply and demand pipeline and give guidance, direction for making decision to achieve goals, deliver products that align with business core interest.
Qualifications: 
Minimal 10+ years’ experience of software developments with both water-Fall and Agile methodologies.
Have experience leading and managing agile, cross function delivery teams encompassing 30+ staff (direct and indirect repartees).
Knowledge on DevOps, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Agile control Framework.
Are passionate about technology and look for opportunities to learn & bring new ideas to the team.
Have experience with Java and web based technologies (JavaScript framework, HTML5, CSS) and Database(Oracle)
Have experience with Production Support and incident management 
Demonstrable ability to mentor, develop talent and motivate staff to reach their optimum performance levels and career development
Want to be part of a world class team, working for a business with a need and appreciation for excellent software engineers
Excellent knowledge of their technical environment and will have significant responsibility in setting the way forward in the types of technology they look after. Forward thinking, making the right decisions based on strategy.