Senior Consultant Specialist

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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 Senior Consultant Specialist.

Business: Asia & Middle East Technology

Job ID: 53877

Principal responsibilities

• Coach and enable agile delivery across squads: ceremonies, team norms, agile mindset, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate key forums (planning, daily stand-ups, refinement, reviews, retrospectives) to keep work transparent, prioritised and outcome-focused.
• Improve flow and predictability: manage bottlenecks, dependencies, WIP, and cycle time; promote small-batch delivery and iterative release.
• Support product execution: partner with Product Owners to improve backlog quality, user story slicing, acceptance criteria, and release planning.
• Drive dependency and stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Ops and external teams; make escalation paths clear and effective.
• Embed quality and operational readiness into delivery: definition of ready/done, non-functional requirements, documentation, release readiness and production support expectations.
• Build high-performing teams: coaching on collaboration, ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and constructive ways to handle conflict.
• Champion continuous improvement and share practices across the wider organisation (communities of practice, playbooks, Show & Tell).

Requirements

• Proven experience as an Agile Lead / Scrum Master / Delivery Lead in a technology delivery environment.
• Strong knowledge of agile frameworks and practices (Scrum/Kanban) and pragmatic application in complex organisations.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies and driving delivery across multiple stakeholders and geographies.
• Comfortable using delivery tools and reporting: Jira/Confluence (or equivalent), dashboards and lightweight status reporting.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and modern software delivery concepts (CI/CD, observability, incident learnings, shift-left quality).
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively.
• Experience operating in environments with governance, risk and compliance requirements (banking/financial services strongly preferred).
• Fluent business English; Mandarin is a plus depending on team setup.

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***