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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.
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.
- 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.
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