Principal Engineer

Some careers have more impact than others.If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC.

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 realize their ambitions.

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

Location: Pune/ Hyderabad

Department Background: WPB Technology

The Opportunity:

This role will support the WPB Tech Insurance business projects and transformation programmes :

• Delivering new Tech services, exploiting current infrastructure technologies
• Migrating applications to IaaS / PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud.
• Driving a greater utilization of virtualization and lower cost storage
• Migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
• Optimizing data backup and retention policies
• Reducing the number of end user devices.

Almost without exception, the PE role has been created to recognize and reward technical achievement. This stands as an alternative to managerial advancement, which until recently was the only way of recognizing technical talent.

It realize the benefit of a technical career track that runs in parallel to the managerial track. Its main purpose is to provide an alternative for those individuals not motivated to move into managerial roles.

Principal Engineers (PE) are the second highest level of the IC Engineering Career Path.

The job holder exist to grow the capability of our engineering organization to increase customer value through implementing the right technical solutions in the right way. PE’s are “a key technical consultant in a deep area of expertise or across multiple areas. The job holder is a strategist, shaping engineering business decisions and processes. PEs also provide leadership for technical disciplines, competencies and professions, and develop architectures, standards, and tools.”

What you’ll do: 

• The PE role usually stands at the near top of this technical career track.
• PEs are expected to provide technical advice to senior management when making major decisions. The job holder are also expected to solve complex problems that have a business critical impact, and to form task forces that are assigned to address one-off issues.
• Shape Engineering strategy
• Create commercially valuable products or services through innovative use of technology
• Contribute to the wider technology community through conference presentations, white papers, blog posts
• Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of others
• In summary, the purpose of the PE role is to both recognize technical talent and to increase the business value obtained from their efforts.