Java, SQL, Unix / Consultant Specialist

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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

In this role, you will:

• Providing full scope of the day-to-day Production Support service including resolution of the live incidents as well as post-resolution problem management activities. To provide workarounds/resolutions with Active participation in crisis calls. Technical expertise in finding root cause of major system problems - inputs based on business/operations requirements.
• Participate and contribute to implementing automations/new production support concepts in the team. Ensuring use of best practices is followed by complying with Group Compliance Policy. Creating batch plans and supporting weekend releases, raising production change orders, supporting the various testing activities related to the new implementations.
• Be part of Reviewing, designing, and re-engineering processes with new technologies to improve performance. To provide 24/7 production support for Global Disbursement application ensuring uninterrupted service. Monitor application performance and proactively address potential issues to meet the SLAs.
• Respond to Incident promptly and conduct Root Cause Analysis. Manage job schedulers, resolve batch failures, and ensure timely transaction processing. Act as a primary point of contact for escalation, coordinating with technical teams and stakeholders, business teams for issue resolution and enhancement.
• Maintain and improve monitoring tools and dashboards to ensure optimal system health. Document troubleshooting steps resolution procedure and contribute to a knowledge base.
• Participating in production patching and deployment activities during maintenance window (starting from 00:00 UKT on Weekends)
• Own and drive the end-to-end incident management process for Production systems, ensuring timely resolution of Incidents. Ensure effective communication during incident, providing regular updates to the management and drive PIRs to implement preventive actions.
• Host and conduct Crisis calls to manage incidents effectively ensuring timely communication, efficient coordination and rapid resolution of major outage or performance issues affecting business operations.
• Managing communication during live incidents or outage, ensuring timely update to all stakeholder, including technical teams and business and senior managements.
• Working on Service Improvement Initiatives, ensuring effective Problem and Change management and Governance. Initiatives for Automation of the manually task and Incident reduction.

To be successful, you will:

• Strong analytical skills/Troubleshooting/debugging Javacode, Spring boot, SQL, Unix/Linux command and Stored Procedures. Hands-on experience on tools like App D / Splunk / Control-M /Ansible / JIRA.
• Experience of high frequency change, specifically adoption, engineering, and execution of automated CICD pipelines.
• Understanding of Unix and Shell scripting.
• Experience in Agile/ DevOps environment and in assisting in production support.
• Good communication skills and be able to efficiently communicate in the production/crisis calls.
• Understanding of customers' needs and delivering excellent customer service.
• Good to have Experience in Payments domain and on SWIFT messaging standards would be added advantage. Open to working in UK/US shifts, weekends and to being on-call support after office hours on need basis (Rotational)
• Ready to take up and support multiple services across production Engineering world to support them with a technological basis rather than functional.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by - HSBC Software Development India