Java Microservices Backend Developer / 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.

The project :

We cater to multiple applications for business within FX and Metals space. Few are vendor applications, and few are inhouse applications.

We have Metals post trade application which uses a third-party vendor platform ‘Calypso’ for Confirmations / Settlements processes. Along with this we also have other third-party vendor applications namely CoreIMS and Aurum which are used for Inventory management and Metals Clearing respectively. We perform end to end development / testing and support for these applications by closely working with business stakeholders.

As a vision we plan to demise our Calypso based legacy application used by Metal’s business and replace the same with our Inhouse application called ‘OPAS’ (Operations Platform as a service). OPAS is already being used by FX and business plans to have a single Backoffice system for FX and Metals.

The vision of OPAS is to have

• achieving ultra-scalability without sacrificing performance and availability
• breakdown into components and take efforts to decentralize change management and providing teams with more control over how features make their way to production
• distributed and move away from vertically scaled infrastructure and single points of failures

Not only needed to transform the way we build and operates on a post trade system, and it needed to transform the culture of GM operations.

Our teams are currently operating in micro services environment based on Java 8 and Spring Cloud and using a vendor product. Those micro services interact with various upstream and downstream systems. We are also build UI for OPAS HTML5, Javascript and ReactJS and the platform integrates with other systems in the Bank using a combination of MQ, File, Web Service and REST interfaces.

In this role, you will :

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements :

Scalability Maintainability Fault Tolerance Security Transaction Management Communication between services Database strategy Central Environment configuration Distributed Tracing Log aggregation System level Error / Exception Management Versioning for libraries / services considering technical debt