ITSO/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:

• Maintain the security risk profile for the assigned scope (assets, threats, vulnerabilities, control gaps, residual risk).
• Lead risk assessments and ensure outcomes are documented, approved, and tracked to closure.
• Ensure required security controls are implemented and operating effectively (e.g., access control, logging/monitoring, vulnerability management, encryption, secure configuration).
• Coordinate evidence collection for audits, regulatory reviews, and internal assurance activities.
• Track and remediate control deficiencies, exceptions, and audit findings.
• Embed security into delivery lifecycles (SDLC/DevSecOps), architecture reviews, and change governance.
• Provide security sign-off/attestation where required and ensure security requirements are met before go-live.
• Oversee vulnerability remediation plans, prioritisation, and risk acceptance where appropriate.
• Support incident response: triage, containment guidance, lessons learned, and control improvements.
• Partner with CIO/CTO teams, engineers, architects, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate security risks and decisions clearly, including trade-offs and customer impact.

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

• Experience In one of the programming languages e.g. Java,Swift & Kotlin
• Organisational and leadership abilities with excellent communication skills. A passion for automation and benchmarks high engineering standards. 
• Experience in Application Development. High level understanding in the areas of Mobile application programming, content management systems, and system design.
• Possesses expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools.
• Solid understanding of DevOps concepts, DevOPs tooling, CI/CD, Pipelines, Build/Release process, Infrastructure as Code etc.
• Experience in Continuous Delivery practices and how they affect product quality and delivery
• Problem-solving aptitude and Creative thinking skillset. Good knowledge of software design patterns and software architecture principles.
• Knowledge of agile project management framework with cross functional teams, using Jira and Confluence. Experience in providing thought leadership, and driving a complex change agenda, and an ability to challenge the “status quo”.

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Issued by – HSDI