HSBC Group

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 62 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 Risk - Compliance IT Principal Engineer 

Department Background:

Enterprise Technology (ET) is a Global Function encompassing platforms that are vital to the bank’s operation. ET’s mission is to “Enable, Protect and Delight” HSBC’s global businesses.  Our inclusive culture means a lot to us, and we are searching for intellectually curious, compassionate people who are eager to grow their skills.

The Risk and Compliance teams, sit within ET, and provide the Risk & Compliance business with solutions to analyze their risk and compliance data, identify and manage threats to HSBC business areas and simplify the workflow of operational areas.  There are strategic programmes to pivot to open-source cloud-based solutions and away from vendor-based platforms as well as to modernize existing systems to meet future threats.

The Opportunity:

• As the most senior engineer in the Risk and Compliance area, you will be able to convey complex topics and work closely with the CIOs, business partners as well as your Principal Engineer peers.
• In addition, you will upskill teams and providing the oversight and direction to deliver at scale.
• There is a specific emphasis on Java / Python & containerization to ensure risk and compliance data processing can be executed at scale and cloud agnostic.
• This role demands a deep awareness of technology, best practices, and emerging trends across the industry.

What you’ll do:

• Your primary responsibility is to drive `Engineering Excellence’ across the many compliance platforms and their related large-scale programs.
• You will demonstrate a passion for delivering quality software efficiently and reducing toil.
• In addition, you will drive high standards across the department and be a role model exemplifying these standards. 
• You will be able to develop and communicate technical strategy and influence stakeholders in the delivery of IT solutions aligned to HSBC Technology’s strategic vision.
• This position plays an instrumental role in driving technical delivery and best in class engineering across a portfolio of agile teams. 

What you will need to succeed in the role: 

• Hands on passionate technologist who is still delivering code to production.
• Ideally does one or more for the following – blogs about technology, has a GitHub portfolio and/or contributes to open source.
• Expert knowledge of development practices, have deep knowledge of one of our core programming languages, Java / Python and ideally JavaScript & Go too.
• Experience in event driven processing would be useful but not essential.
• Ability to follow the industry shifts and offerings across the full stack including Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud, Virtualization, service mesh, data lakes, storage and networking in Cloud environments.
• A problem solver that can translate business opportunities into technical solutions.
• The ability to choose the ‘right tool for the job’.
• Connect, build and support communities that ‘raise the bar’ on delivering quality and efficiency.
• Build inter-personal relationships with key stakeholders and technology partners.
• Self-assurance to positively question current perspectives and steer towards improved paths.
• Maintain a strong knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, engineering solutions, and technical standards.
• Mentor and share knowledge with others on the team, and outside teams where required.
• Always consider automation for a solution from the start.  Help to reduce the toil and time-consuming portions of the technology to help developers become more agile and deliver solutions quickly and securely.
• Be able to evidence continuous learning, staying up-to-date and guiding the engineering community on evolving trends.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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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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