Lead Software Engineer

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Group Functions Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening and risk assessment. Risk & Compliance Technology designs and deploys technology to defend the bank and its customers from sanctions risk, financial crime risk, identity threat, unauthorized trading, market abuse and regulatory sanctions as well as supporting enterprise risk management.

Within the Compliance Control team, you’ll build surveillance solutions that help HSBC comply with regulatory guidelines for preventing and detecting market manipulation attempts. These solutions are highly 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 for surveillance services.
• Partner with the product owner and the business to shape features and requirements.
• Automate testing to improve quality and speed of delivery.
• Automate deployment to enable small and frequent releases.
• Own production availability for your service using a build-it-own-it approach.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Bring substantial software development experience with strong Java skills.
• Apply a very good understanding of the Spring framework including Spring Boot.
• Use SQL effectively and handle big data volume transformation.
• Apply strong CI/CD knowledge using Jenkins, Git, Ansible or similar tools.
• Demonstrate familiarity with the ELK monitoring stack or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Airflow or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Spark or other big data tools or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Demonstrate strong analysis and problem-solving skills and deliver to tight deadlines with clear communication and ownership.