Principal Engineer - Trade Lifecycle

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in more than 60 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 Opening up a World of Opportunity.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Principal Engineer - Trade Lifecycle

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Our global technology teams work closely with HSBC's global businesses to design and build services that support our front office (traders and sales) and the team supporting them front to back (Product Control, Finance, Operations, Traded risk notably). We work in agile DevOps teams with colleagues around the world.

We are investing heavily across our technology and engineering domains and to accelerate achieving our vision we are seeking an experienced full stack engineering lead to join the Primary Trading System tech team within FICC. This is a global role based in Pune, India with occasional travel required.

About FICC and the PTS tech team

The Primary Trading System team within the Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities department is responsible for designing, building, delivering, and supporting systems for HSBC's trading operations for Fixed Income products. We aim to enable our business to unlock its full potential by optimising booking, trade workflows, straight through processing (STP) and managing the entire trade lifecycle, including in some instances back-office functions.

We manage large and complex systems, some of which are legacy systems with legacy architectures. They are used by thousands of HSBC employees world-wide.

An important part of this role is to help review and define designs for new systems and processes that will succeed these legacy ones. This involves following a high-level plan defined with our architects.

Why work for FICC technology?

Working in FICC technology means collaborating with talented individuals across the globe in the challenging environment of global markets. We strive to provide a faster, better service by leading our teams to innovate, learn from each other and continuously improve.

Our values and culture of diversity and inclusion underpin who we are and what we do, they form an integral part of our selection and assessment of new joiners. Come as you are!

Some of the benefits you'll enjoy when you join our teams:

• Flexible working environment with a hybrid working model.
• Emphasis on employee health and well-being
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Strong growth and advancement opportunities
• A diverse and inclusive environment

Principal responsibilities: -

The full stack engineering lead is accountable to the global head of engineering standard and will support the overall Technology Strategy. We have a specific focus on engineering in HSBC involving:

• Hands on engineering on major programme delivery
• Providing engineering through leadership across our India engineering community
• Leading SWAT for critical issues or engineering problems
• Driving software development quality as a key leading engineering standards function
• Defining and improve practices.
• Providing oversight of engineering against technical principles and strategy.

The full stack engineer lead is responsible for working across the PTS technology delivery lifecycle including inception, construction, testing, release, and support.

Working closely with our business and other engineers, you will design the engineering platform that will answer their needs in a sustainable, cost effective and secure way while meeting all standards required.

You will be able to propose proof of concepts based on small iterations on reduced scope to show to the users rapid and tangible benefits.

• Provide a technical leadership to the rest of the team.
• Support and/or challenge existing designs.
• Be available across the wide FICC team to give advice on engineering design matters.
• Be the gate keeper for the Future State Architecture defined by the architects.
• Improve our gender diversity by helping to keep our junior women engaged, challenged, developing capabilities, and on technical career paths.