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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. 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.

Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) helps deliver on HSBC’s purpose of opening up a world of opportunity by providing our customers with borderless banking and world-class wealth management through best-in-class, mobile-first capabilities and exceptional people. Our international network and breadth of expertise enable us to support individuals, families, business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. Wealth and Personal Banking has four key business areas responsible for efficiently bringing the best of HSBC to our clients through a broad and relevant suite of wealth and retail banking capabilities: Asset Management, Global Private Banking & Wealth, HSBC Life, Retail Banking & Strategy and COO & Digital Transformation.

We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as a Principal Engineer.

Job Profile

Principal Engineers (PE) are the second highest level of the IC Engineering Career Path.

The job holder exist to grow the capability of our engineering organization to increase customer value through implementing the right technical solutions in the right way. PE’s are “a key technical consultant in a deep area of expertise or across multiple areas.

The job holder is a strategist, shaping engineering business decisions and processes. PEs also provide leadership for technical disciplines, competencies and professions, and develop architectures, standards, and tools.”

This role is equivalent of a Director on an Individual Contributor (IC) track.

Purpose of the role

Almost without exception, the PE role has been created to recognise and reward technical achievement. This stands as an alternative to managerial advancement, which until recently was the only way of recognising technical talent.

It realise the benefit of a technical career track that runs in parallel to the managerial track. Its main purpose is to provide an alternative for those individuals not motivated to move into managerial roles.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• The PE role usually stands at the near top of this technical career track. 
• PEs are expected to provide technical advice to senior management when making major decisions. The job holder are also expected to solve complex problems that have a business critical impact, and to form task forces that are assigned to address one-off issues. 
• Shape Engineering strategy
• Create commercially valuable products or services through innovative use of technology
• Contribute to the wider technology community through conference presentations, white papers, blog posts
• Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of others

In summary, the purpose of the PE role is to both recognise technical talent and to increase the business value obtained from their efforts.

This role will support the WPB Tech Insurance business projects and transformation programmes:

• delivering new Tech services, exploiting current infrastructure technologies
• migrating applications to IaaS / PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud.
• driving a greater utilization of virtualisation and lower cost storage
• migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
• optimising data backup and retention policies
• reducing the number of end user devices. 

General Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor level University degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a similar related subject
• Demonstrable expert knowledge in a large IT estate, ideally within Financial Services and solid knowledge of the industry ITIL Service Management framework, latest coding standards, Insurance technical stack
• Previous Head of IT, or CIO level experience, ideally within a Group or Regional corporate model
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to a wide range of individuals and groups and at different levels of seniority
• Self-starter and effective collaborator. Innovative and able to assess needs and propose solutions
• Ability to influence without direct management authority, in a large and complex matrixed organisation
• Demonstrable expert knowledge within Insurance and / or Financial Services

Expectations in role are to:

1. Deliver high quality technology platforms with tiered service levels
2. Deliver cost savings and efficiency through reduced complexity
3. Improve time to market for delivery of services
4. Enable effective regulatory, audit and security controls
5. Drive productivity and sustainability

Additional Essential Experience

Have a system engineering background and the ability to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement.  Provide technical thought leadership in evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption.  Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of:

• Cloud technologies: (AWS, Google GCP, MS Azure APIs)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus)
• Automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform)
• Middleware (Websphere, Tomcat, Java, Messaging, Application Server, Web server)
• Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN, SDN)
• Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux, Windows, Solaris), Server Virtulization (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, KVM)
• Storage (EMC SAN – FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SRDF; NetApp NAS - CIFS, NFS; Object storage)
• Databases (Oracle RAC, AWS RDS, Sybase, Apache Hadoop and MongoDB)
• Collaboration tools (Confluence, Jira)

Additional Beneficial Experience

Business

• Have a good understanding of the WPB Insurance business.  
• Able to translate business needs into appropriate IT solutions.

Technical

• Cloud technologies: (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure; Mulesoft; App Dynamics, google GCP)
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ Java Script
• Databases (Oracle and MS SQL; VCS and MSCS; AWS RDS etc)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Passion for technology and understanding how things work

Additional Key skills

Candidates will also need to demonstrate:

• A track record of delivering significant change which improves business effectiveness in sustainable ways
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing senior stakeholders, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations 
• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field
• Proven experience of leading others and creating an environment that supports and inspires people to develop and deliver
• Built effective networks both internally and externally and created opportunities for others to work collaboratively 
• A track record of making complex business decisions with authority, even in times of ambiguity, considering the potential long term risks and implications

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