Developer Evangelist – HSBC Group CTO Shared Service

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.

The most exciting digital revolution in HSBC’s history is happening right now. The group CTO shared services, we are creating, will influence the banking behaviour of over 37 million customers worldwide. Such an exciting journey comes with a truly unique career opportunity: working alongside a growing team of experts from world-leading technology companies to embed digital into the heart of the bank.

Our Digital teams are an integrated global group of over 3500 technologists and commercial thinkers, working across our offices in London, India, China, Hong Kong, the US, Canada, Poland and Mexico.

Our work includes developing new mobile apps and online experiences; using digital messaging to build the relationship with our customers; building and improving the underlying technology and security platforms; and innovating our propositions to take advantage of new innovation.

We are seeking eager developer relations team members to help us build the developer community in HSBC. The candidate will keep technical skills sharp, have the opportunity to build personal brand alongside HSBC Open API channel. Open API is the next wave of API technology, and you can be on the front of this wave. The primary responsibility of the Developer Relations team is to drive the wider developer community towards Open API – with the goal of making HSBC Developer Portal best in class API experience for developers across the globe. 

The developer relations team sits within our engineering team but spends the majority of its time in outbound efforts to work with the community. It’s a unique role working with the world’s leading engineers and a global community of developers. The team influences the direction of API channel and Developer portal both inside and outside the company. 

Candidates will be hands-on software engineers and will have a desire and capability to represent HSBC’s Open API Channel as public facing brand ambassadors.

What you will be doing;

• Engagement - Direct engagement of the developer community through meetups, roadshows, boot camps, hackathons, lectures, training and other channels of education. 
• Community Support - Facilitate a great experience with APIs for developers at scale with broad reach channels such as Slack, video conference, Stack Overflow and other forums. 
• Community development - Foster a healthy community globally through user group support and an Open API Champions program 
• Content - Create content to engage the developer audience through social media, videos, blog posts and documentation. 
• Open-source - Developer relations are the champions of open source. The team is responsible for gathering requirements that are essential for Open API adoption. This includes encouraging and reviewing open-source contributions. 
• Samples and demos - Help showcase HSBC’ API product capabilities with samples and demos that the community at large can leverage. 
• A history of leading engineering teams to deliver modern consumer facing digital products using agile techniques 

This position is ideal for developers or Computer Science graduates who want to stay technically sharp but travel and interact with developers globally. 

• Development skills - A Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience, with a track record of development in Java and related languages. 
• Presenting skills - The ability to present complex technical ideas to developers and often non-technical audiences. 
• Curiosity - Experience of working with RESTful API is not essential but a demonstrated curiosity about the technology and its impact are critical. 
• Ability to travel - The developer relations team spends 10-20% of time on the road globally. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication. 

Qualifications

What you will bring to the role; 

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience of the following;

• CI/CD - tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitHub, SonarQube, Nexus
• Cloud Technologies – AWS, GCP and Azure
• Agile Tooling – Jira, Confluence, Slack
• Java, NodeJS, Spring Boot and Tomcat
• API Gateways - AWS API gateway, Kong Gateway and Mule Gateway
• DevOps processes and experience
• Understanding of lean and agile principles and practices
• Experience of working in an Agile and DevOps environment

This role is based in London (but other UK locations will be considered).

Come Power a Business that Defines How to Power the World

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.  HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

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Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com 

Tel: +44 (0) 207 832 8500

Job Field

 : Technology

Primary Location

 : Europe-United Kingdom-Greater London-London

Schedule

 : Full-time 

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Job Posting

 : 16-Sep-2021, 16:23:51 

Unposting Date

 : 17-Dec-2021, 04:29:00