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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations 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 Principal Engineer- Digital Data and Innovation – Securities Services Technology.
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Securities Services Tech is one of the large asset classes within MSS Tech and has teams in London, Canada, Poland, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Pune – supporting businesses covering Banks and Broker Dealers, Fund Admin, Transfer Agency and Digital Data Innovation functions. The organization is rapidly transforming both its people structure and ways of working to better align with our Front Office part of the business and increase the speed and quality of delivery. We have adopted a DevOps model driving agile delivery and building a strong product ownership group. The 2024 change portfolio is nine figures executed by c.1000+ technology professionals globally.
Principal responsibilities
- The individual in this role is empowered and accountable to provide hands-on technical expertise to identify and build commercially viable, fit-for-future, and competitive engineering solution. This involves leading the technical delivery of highly complex, business critical, client facing, front-to-back services for the Securities Services business.
- The successful candidate will also be responsible to develop and grow the engineering capability of the Digital Data and Innovation (DDI) functional team globally and Securities Services Technology team in India horizontally, including the oversight of the engineering team in their technical decision making, outcomes & end-product quality.
- The role also carries an expanded responsibility of finding solutions to shared technical challenges across the broader Securities Services Technology organization, as well as investing in talent to build a Principal Engineer pipeline.
- The successful candidate will be able to use their significant expertise and skills to influence and lead key stakeholders within and outside the technology organization such as product owners and business counterparts in the delivery of solutions that adhere to HSBC Technology's strategic vision whilst meeting the strategic aims of the DDI business function.
- They will also provide engineering expertise and representation across the wider MSS technology organisation with particular focus on the Securities Services Technology department
- Technology / programming language is not a barrier to getting things done – the candidate will typically be polyglot and have no issues with learning on the job. They will have a natural understanding for the core technical skills instead of specific frameworks allowing them to be diverse in what they can do.
- Domain expertise in Investment banking is an advantage although not a necessity. Similarly, experience building enterprise scale applications and platforms is beneficial.
Role Purpose and key activities:
- Responsible for all technical decisions – principles, design, implementation – for the Digital Data and Innovation within Securities Services - Technology.
- 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
