Consultant Specialist/Wholesale IT

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist

Principal Responsibilities

Infrastructure Project Management job holders are accountable for successful delivery of the project and ensuring benefits realization. Projects may be standalone or part of a wider programme of activity and may be located in project teams as well as BAU teams.

Project Management job holders may have reports, these may be Business Analysts, work stream leads, Programme Management Office (PMO) staff or admin support staff. Project Management job holders may report to a Programme Manager.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities. Project Management job holders will hold most or all of these responsibilities:

• Drive the establishment of effective project controls, procedures and quality assurance processes.
• Lead the project approach, building stakeholder buy-in around the project plan, commitments and changes.
• Provide management to maintain a focus on how the project aligns to wider programme objectives, where appropriate, and to the change portfolio across HSBC
• Promote and take accountability for project quality; identify opportunities to improve delivery
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive the adoption of HSBC project standards and work in alignment with HSBC project methodology at all times.
• Plan and analyse costs, tracking operating and capital spend
• Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to project or programme leadership and committees as appropriate and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation.
• Manage team activities which include people management, performance management and professional development.

Resilience issues are most commonly found in the way in which applications use infrastructure. The critical success factor in most implementations is that customer impact is zero. This means Technology Project Management job holders in the CMBIT Digital Resilience team require the following additional technical expertise/experience to enable the successful execution of their roles:

• Experience of operational risk assessment of resilience risks/controls to assist the business risk owner in establishing risk appetite, priority and return on investment
• Experience of delivering complex infrastructure upgrades affecting multiple countries, products, customers and applications, usually including comprehensive regression and non-functional testing
• Experience of creating and working with a virtual team made up of stakeholders and IT colleagues from multiple disciplines, geographies and timezones
• A good working technical knowledge of one or more common infrastructure patterns and products, including
  
  • RedHat LINUX operating systems
  • IBM Websphere WAS ND / Liberty, HTTP Webserver
  • MQ Messaging
  • F5 firewall / load balancing
  • Oracle databases
  • JAVA
  • API, Cloud technology
• Desired technical knowledge of one or more common infrastructure patterns and products, including
  
  • z/OS Mainframe and Mainframe technologies
  • LDAP, OpenAM, ForgeRockDS authentication
  • Splunk, Enterprise Monitoring
  • AppDynamics & Patrol instrumentation

Experience

• 5+ years IT project management experience within Financial Services, Software, Telecoms or Energy sectors
• Proven experience of working in complex $1m - $5m programmes involving 2-5 projects delivered across multiple products and geographies
• Experienced in ‘hands on’ IT delivery including end to end infrastructure patching, upgrade and managing application impacts
• Experience of working in a Service Transition role – often the real recipients of change are the production support teams – collaboration is required throughout the lifecycle to ensure that implementations are supportable in production, which in turn improves service resilience and security for customers
• Experience of improving ITIL service transition capability and DevOps development pipeline quality, working with the production support, engineering and DevOps teams. Includes assessing process and service model gaps and leading continuous improvement activities to resolve them

Qualifications

• Degree educated
• Project Management (Agile, PRINCE2)
• Service Transition (ITIL, DevOps)

Skills & Competencies

• Full change management including IT project management, planning, budgeting, risk management, governance
• Virtual project team management
• Strong team player, volunteer
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and fast learner
• Appetite and desire to initiate change and execute strategy
• Cultivates a collaborative and cooperative attitude
• An appreciation and respect for local cultures, and ability to both influence and work effectively with them
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and spoken)
• Comfortable with both detailed reporting and executive communications
• Excellent organisational skills - able to efficiently manage multiple workstreams when working under pressure
• Microsoft Office skills essential – particularly Outlook, Excel, Word and Powerpoint

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 Centre***

Job Field: Technology

Primary Location: Asia Pacific-India-Maharashtra-Pune

Schedule: Full-time

Type of Vacancy: Country vacancy

Job Posting: 29-Jun-2021, 01:37:30