Job description
Some careers have more impact than others.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Principal Engineer-North Star .
Business: Wealth & Personal Banking IT
Principal responsibilities
Impact on the Business
- Lead by example and have practical experience of building services and technical architecture to deliver North Star IT solutions.
- Demonstrate influence through code to large parts of an organization.
- Provide leadership and contribution for the North Star engineering practices and Technology strategy.
- Represent North Star Engineering across the broader WPB and Technology community in relation to Engineering quality, efficiency and system resiliency.
- Assist Head of Engineering North Star to build a great engineering team that delivers excellent results to difficult problems.
- Adopt new technologies, like Gen AI, to drive the Engineering or Platform evolution.
Stakeholders – Internal and External
- Creates and manages strong and trusted working relationship inside and outside of WPB through strong relationships within the broader HSBC group.
- Gain the trust of Engineers.
- Manage an effective relationship with partners and third-party vendor to ensure successful uptime.
- Join the Internal and external Engineering communities, to influence a broad range of the Engineers.
Leadership & Teamwork
- Proven ability to lead, motivate and inspire a diverse team in a dynamic, rapidly changing engineering environment.
- conflicts.
- Ability to promote Innersource culture and provide feedback to engineers continuously and professionally.
- Ability to mentor and coach Engineers for career progression, skill advancement and achieving project objectives.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly articulate vision and strategy to the team.
- Cultivate an environment that supports diversity and reflects the HSBC brand.
Operational Effectiveness & Control
- Ensure technology goals are identified, communicated, documented, agreed and delivered in the most cost-effective manner possible.
- Identifying key risks, issues and interdependencies and provide appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Supporting audit / independent programme assessments as required
- Ensure HSBC is not put at any operational or reputational risk.
Requirements
- Proven track record of success in senior technology leadership roles within complex financial services companies and involvement in complex technology transformations.
- Deep technical expertise in software development (especially Mobile), architecture, and infrastructure, with hands-on experience in building scalable, high-performance systems.
- Deep technical skills across multiple domains including but not limited to Swift, Kotlin, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Deep understand iOS/Android/Unix/Linux to a good degree of proficiency
- Accountable experience for service performance of end-to-end services delivered (e.g., service SLA, MTTR, etc.)
- A combination of technical expertise, influencing, strategic thinking, and business acumen.
- Strong ability to balance risks vs. rewards and maximizing the cost effectiveness and profitability for the business.
- Respectful of different cultures, working with colleagues from different regions.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.
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