Scrum - Jira -Confluence-Senior Consultant Specialist

Job Description

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to manage and prioritize analytics-related backlog items, ensuring readiness and alignment with business goals.
• Refine and groom analytics stories, focusing on data pipelines, dashboards, and model requirements.
• Identify and raise RAAID items related to data quality, integration, and analytics deliverables.
• Update stakeholders on progress against milestones, emphasizing analytics metrics and deliverables.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies with a focus on analytics tasks, ensuring alignment on data dependencies and blockers.
• Work with cross-functional teams to resolve impediments related to data access, tooling, or infrastructure.
• Monitor analytics deliverables to ensure high-quality outputs and adherence to best practices.
• Contribute to testing strategies, including automation for data pipelines and validation of analytics outputs.
• Ensure technical solutions for analytics (e.g., models, visualizations) are reviewed and approved.
• Produce JIRA-based reports on analytics tasks, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Share analytics best practices and promote continuous improvement within the team and across IT Surveillance.
• Support the adoption of scalable and efficient analytics tools and frameworks.
  
  

Requirements

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

Must have:

• 6-11 years of relevant experience.
• Strong markets knowledge across a range of products: FX, Equities, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income, Futures, Swaps, Energy, Metals, with the ability to analyze and interpret market data to support business decisions.
• Excellent Front to Back (full) Trade Lifecycle knowledge, including the ability to track and analyze trade data for reporting and insights.
• Practical experience in functional analysis and design, utilizing methodologies like Use Cases and Business Process Modelling, with a focus on analyzing data flows and system interactions in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Proficient in requirements elicitation, functional design, and problem-solving, with a structured approach to analyzing data requirements and ensuring data accuracy.
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into clear, actionable specifications for developers, ensuring alignment with analytics objectives.
• Expertise in Agile engineering practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, LEAN), with experience in managing analytics tasks and deliverables within Agile frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence for managing requirements, tracking analytics tasks, and documenting data workflows.
• Good knowledge of XML for mapping, linking, and transforming data across systems, ensuring data consistency and integrity.
• Accountability for delivery, taking ownership of analytics tasks and ensuring timely resolution with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with global stakeholders, present data-driven insights, and manage relationships effectively.
• Ability to analyze, visualize, and interpret data to support decision-making, leveraging analytics tools and techniques for data analysis and reporting.
  
  

Good to have:

• Have a postgraduate degree in Finance / CFA / FRM
• Some experience in trade surveillance, regulatory reporting and market abuse
• Disciplined Agile and SAFE framework experience
• Experienced in working with resources in geographically dispersed teams, appreciating and respecting local cultures
• Front Office IT experience
• An appreciation and experience of working on projects that are driven by Regulatory Mandate, and be able to articulate the challenges that such projects often encounter, and the ways in which they’ve been able to achieve success in such areas
• Basic knowledge of Unix, SQL (or any database), Flat file based manual testing
  
  

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India