HSBC Group

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Principal Engineer.

Business: Markets & Sec Services IT

Principal responsibilities

• Responsible for all technical decisions – principles, design, implementation – across the sector.
• Provide positive, hands-on engineering leadership supported by agile delivery and applying the latest technology solutions and architectures from the wider technology community to deliver change with maximum impact.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and technical guidance for a diverse team of engineers.
• Accountable for technology controls that ensure our systems and services are secure, resilient, and sustainable for the long term and managing the balance between time-to-market and stability with an understanding of the risks involved.
• Through collaboration, driving adoption of best practices across the Securities Services organization.
• Driving a culture of experimentation and innovation within the teams, leading by example with proof-of-concepts and fail-fast, and implementing latest technologies, tools, architectures where required in the tech stack.
• Creating an environment which fosters open discussion, challenging constructively and teamwork.

• 15-20 years of hands-on experience in developing and implementing software solutions
• Experience of working in an Agile environment with a strong focus on engineering practices and tooling.
• Proven ability to improve developer productivity – through automation, reusability and other mechanisms.
• Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer
• Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.
• Ability to liase with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
• Ability to understand business issues and connecting the dots between issues. Compare and contrast different technical solutions and recommend/deliver the most optimal ones to meet business requirements.
• Ability to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritize and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues.

What additional skills will be good to have?

Sector functional requirements:

• Proven track record with data migration at scale across multiple in house and vendor system.
• Experienced in using AI and ML to analyse and accelerate data migration across platform.
• Experience with large scale data architecture, across multiple or hybrid Cloud platform
• Familiar with Big Data, Data Lake, Data Mesh and Data Warehousing solutions
• Hands on experience with multiple vendors platform integration
• Familiarity with Financial Markets and related asset classes will be an advantage.

Sector Technical Requirements:

• Proficient with Cloud native software development principles
• Proven track record with DevSecOps
• Proven hands-on experience in building enterprise-wide resilient applications.

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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