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 Android Developer, takes responsibility for delivery and consultancy of CMB Tech UK Mobile Android development activities. The job holder contributes in successful delivery of BB UK Mobile Android App 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.
• Conduct & lead Android design & development for WSIT DBB UK Mobile Android App

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of Android experience
• Deep experience working on a team of Android engineers building and maintaining large-scale apps, or impressive apps that you’ve built personally
• Experience as a technical expert on the Android platform and competency with industry standard libraries
• Experience with Android-specific location libraries is a plus
• Experience with React-native is a plus
• Experience building SDKs or open source libraries is desired 
• Experience for Hybrid app should better
• Experience for handling security issues
• Familiar with Kotlin/Java
• Have experience in Dagger2 / Rxjava2 / Retrofit2, familiar with 3rd party lib integration, familiar with design pattern, especially MVP
• Strong self-learning skill
• Have android fingerprint development experience is a plus
• Familiar with security concept and integration is a plus, like https, cert pinning, encryption and decryption, data protection and etc
• Effective English communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Comfort and delight in a small, fast-paced startup environment
• Experience working in an agile development environment