Chief Engineer - Equities and Securities Financing

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. 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.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Chief Engineer  - Equities and Securities Financing

In this role, you will:

• Evangelise the customer in every conversation and decision, be passionate about their needs and continually strive to improve their experience.
• Understand platform challenges and connecting the dots between issues. Compare and contrast different technical solutions and recommend/deliver the most optimal ones to meet business requirements.
• Focus on system resilience and educate the organisation on all the aspects this entails. Eg failsafe, controls from inceptions, Cyber, etc...
• Provide technical leadership across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilising their skills and expertise to carry out software development.
• Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product, platform  or service’s direction.
• Establish a technology environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.
• Ensure Engineers have the tools to build service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
• Drive automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc.
• Work with industry groups/peers and vendors outside of HSBC to establish and maintain HSBC's involvement and influence in the engineering space. 
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting edge specialist technologies and practices with the domain and across HSBC
• Work with the Engineering Practice to promote development of engineers through coaching, and mentoring.
• Identify as an authority for specific engineering disciplines providing steer/assistance to programmes or projects that require it.