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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 Senior Consultant Specialist.

We are working on an application XSSL (Cross Product Settlement Service Layer). XSSL provides Integration services to the HSBC Markets systems that are involved in Payment and other Settlement related processing, connecting them to the systems implemented in the retail bank that hold our accounts, payment creation systems and the gateways to external systems such as the Swift network and local RTGS. We refer to these retail systems as being owned by DBS (Digital Business Services) to distinguish them from the systems owned by Markets (under Markets and Securities Settlements - MSS).

The functions XSSL provides:

Technical Validation - mainly structural eg xml schema validation - catching breaks early and handling within Markets rather than in DBSBusiness Validation - permission to act - Is system x allowed to submit payment type y on behalf of entity zRouting and distribution (fan out)Transformation and enrichmentLightweight Orchestration - managing lifecycle or 'status' updatesTransport Protocol mediation - eg async messaging to syncronous API

Current main focus for XSSL is ISO20022/ SWIFT change global programme.
ISO20022 is a market driven mandatory, global payments directive which will migrate all payment messages from existing MT message format into the new MX format.

In this role, you will:

ITSO ownership of all Risk Controls issuesManaging XSSL Development Team, including multiple POD teams to delivery business functionalities in DevOps approachWork as an application analyst/developer to provide application solutions to the businessWork with the business and recommend viable IT solutions to meet these requirementsAnalyse business needs and recommend viable IT solutions to meet these requirementsDesign, develop and implement IT solutions to meet business needs, according to established standards and best practicesFacilitate communication among key stakeholdersMaintain relationships with key stakeholders and business contacts;Manage activities within project delivery to the business within the agreed timeframes, cost and levels of quality;Conduct and support testing to ensure the quality of all deliverables.Produce documentation on system solutions to ensure their maintainability and smooth implementationMaintain production stabilities and provide support to production incidents