Description
Some careers have more impact than others. If you're looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you'll be.
Principal responsibilities:
- Modern engineering & platform transformation: Continuously improve stability, scalability, and operability (SRE-style focus). Align the application with CCR FSA standards and engineering guardrails. Adopt and embed advanced engineering practices across the pod (quality, automation, secure-by-design).
- Full delivery lifecycle ownership: Implement solutions end-to-end: impact assessment, performance tuning, testing, deployment. Move fluidly between development, testing, and production support based on demand. Reduce operational pain (TOIL reduction) via automation and better diagnostics.
- DevSecOps and controls: Improve OKRs such as release cadence, incident reduction, and operational efficiency. Ensure compliance with IT risk and controls (including secure configuration, auditability, change discipline).
- Engineering leadership & collaboration: Lead/guide developers where needed; drive consistent standards across the team. Operate effectively in a global, distributed environment with strong spoken English. Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis).
- Ways of working: Strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines. Ability to lead developers and land 'meaningful changes' that improve business outcomes sustainably.
Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:
- Java (Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud)
- RESTful API design and implementation
- Linux/UNIX + shell scripting for diagnostics/automation
- Container & CI/CD ecosystem - Docker + Kubernetes - Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible and CI/CD patterns (build, test, deploy, rollback)
- Observability / reliability tooling - Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo - Practical ability to define SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, tracing strategies, and to use these in incident resolution
- Data - Oracle (or equivalent enterprise RDBMS) and PostgreSQL - Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis)
- Ways of working - Strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines - Ability to lead developers and land 'meaningful changes' that improve business outcomes sustainably
What additional skills will be good to have?
- HSBC ITSO experience (controls, governance, risk awareness in delivery)
- Investment banking / CCR domain familiarity
- Architecture experience (especially microservices, gRPC, cloud-native patterns)
- GCP/AWS experience or certifications
- Python/Jupyter (often useful for analysis, tooling, automation)
- Evidence of engineering community contribution (open source, GitHub, blogs)
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