# Assistant Vice President – Markets Systems - IT

**Company**: HKEX
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Markets Systems team at HKEX is responsible for delivering first-in-class systems for trading, market data dissemination, and surveillance monitoring in cash and derivatives markets.

You will play a critical role in managing the full software development cycle, including architecture design, development, testing, and implementation of our mission-critical systems.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design and develop low-latency systems for exchange trading and surveillance platforms for cash and derivative markets

- Collaborate with user divisions to define solutions based on business use cases

- Take full ownership and accountability of project delivery

- Lead the investigation and resolution of production incidents

- Manage projects with complex stakeholders that involve internal, external parties, and regulators

- Assess technological risk and drive mitigation actions

- Collaborate with technology teams on activities with common systems impacts

- Drive technical excellence across the teams

- Uphold compliance with organization policies and standards

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline

- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in system design and development, ideally within banking or financial services sectors

- Strong interest in technologies and ability to understand new technologies in detail quickly

- Solid experience in delivering projects with complex stakeholders

- Solid experience in system design and development of low-latency and high-throughput systems

- In-depth knowledge of resiliency design that supports high availability

- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, and people management skills

- Experience in hands-on coding, e.g., Java, C++, Python, web or network programming

- Good understanding of cyber security risk and technology control

- Good understanding of cash or derivatives market

## Skills

### Required
- system design
- development
- low-latency systems
- Java
- C++
- Python
- cyber security
- network programming

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