HSBC Group

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations 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 realize their ambitions.

Department: CTO

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Object Storage Engineering team responsible for building, automating, and evolving HSBC’s enterprise-scale object and archive storage platforms.
• Set the technical direction and delivery roadmap, working closely with product owners and senior stakeholders in CTO and application teams.
• Oversee the design and implementation of automation pipelines (e.g. Ansible, CI/CD), observability frameworks, and production-grade engineering solutions.
• Drive innovation and evaluate emerging storage technologies to enhance platform performance, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Ensure engineering standards, documentation, and onboarding processes are in place and continuously improved.
• Manage capacity planning, compliance, risks, and financial control across global deployments.
• Guide and mentor team members, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and cross-regional collaboration.
• Act as a senior representative of Object Storage within HSBC’s Storage Platform, supporting platform strategy and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications – Internal

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or demonstrable experience) in Information Technology.

• 12+ Years minimum experience in IT including 5+ years in a team leadership or managerial role.

• Proven leadership experience managing global infrastructure engineering teams and delivering enterprise-scale object storage solutions.

• Deep expertise in platforms such as Dell EMC ECS, NetApp StorageGRID, Veritas Enterprise Vault, OpenText InfoArchive, VAST, or similar.

• Hands-on experience with automation (e.g. Ansible, Python), observability (e.g. Splunk), and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid storage architectures is an advantage.

• Strong understanding of Agile practices, risk & compliance, and change management in a regulated environment.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Ability to lead through influence, foster inclusive team culture, and drive continuous improvement.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India.