Vision PLUS FAS/Senior 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 Senior Consultant Specialist
In this role, you will:
- Partner with Product Owners/Business SMEs to clarify BRD scope, confirm acceptance criteria, and agree MVP/stories and delivery milestones.
- Align early with Architects and Solution Analysts on target design, integration impacts, and non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, security).
- Engage upstream/downstream application teams (Vision PLUS modules, interfaces) to manage dependencies, cutover needs, and end-to-end testing coverage.
- Coordinate with QA/UAT stakeholders to plan test strategy, environments, data needs, defect triage, and sign-offs.
- Work closely with Change/Release/Operations teams to plan deployments, implementation runbooks, rollback approach, and post-release validation.
- Lead incident/crisis-call communications with Service Management and business stakeholders, providing clear status, ETA, and business impact updates.
- Manage vendor/third-party stakeholders (if applicable) for product constraints, patches, and roadmap alignment impacting FAS changes.
- Provide transparent reporting to programme/project leadership on estimates, risks/issues, decisions required, and progress against plan.
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- Deep domain experience in credit card processing and complex banking platforms, with 12+ years across development and BAU maintenance.
- Strong VisionPLUS product knowledge with hands-on delivery in core modules (FAS, CMS,ITS, TRAMS) and end-to-end authorisation processing.
- Mainframe Tech SME across COBOL, CICS,VSAM JCL and Eztrieve, including batch/online design, performance tuning, and structured debugging.
- Proven capability with mainframe DevOps/release toolchains (Endevor, Changeman, schedulers), plus job monitoring, abend analysis, and controlled deployments.
- Strong authorisation functional/technical knowledge: scheme flows (Visa/Mastercard/Amex), routing/decisioning, response codes, stand-in, and scheme controls.
- Working knowledge of message standards (ISO 8583/ISO 20022) and TCP/IP communication frameworks used in authorisation integrations,Hands-on experience with critical authorization scheme control programs, including OFOVCTLO, OFOMCTL, OFOACTL, OFOMISO, OFOVISO, OFOVCTCP, OFOMTCPetc
- Broader payments expertise including EMV/chip processing, clearing & settlement/file processing, disputes, and security/compliance (PCI DSS v4.0.x awareness).
- Familiarity with modern payments capabilities and tooling: digital wallets/tokenisation concepts (Apple/Google/Samsung Pay; TAR/ACN/TCN/TVN) and Agile/DevOps delivery using Jira/Confluence.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India