# Retail Platform Principal Engineer

**Company**: HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited
**Location**: Guangzhou
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## 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.

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

As a Retail Platform Principal Engineer, you will provide strategic technical leadership across engineering projects, ensuring alignment with business goals, architecture principles and regulatory/compliance requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.

- Designing and implementing scalable, resilient, secure microservices and event-driven systems.

- Leading adoption and governance of engineering standards, patterns and best practices.

- Mentoring and coaching senior engineers and engineering leads.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of technical projects, including cloud-native and DevOps practices, and contribute to the development of our retail platform.

You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team, working closely with product, security, data and ops teams to align technical strategy with business objectives, regulatory requirements and non-functional goals.

If you are a motivated and experienced engineer looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Qualifications:

- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline; MSc/PhD preferred.

- Cloud certification(s) strongly preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

- Desirable: Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), security or data governance certificates.

Preferred qualifications include experience in financial services or regulated industries with demonstrable knowledge of regulatory controls, audit preparation and model risk governance.

Deliverables and success measures include architecture and platform designs that meet non-functional requirements, successful delivery of prioritized Tech Risk Control book-of-work items and remediation actions, reduction in incident mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover through improved observability, RCA and runbooks, mature AI/ML deployment pipelines with documented governance, monitoring and model lifecycle controls, and high team engagement with evidence of knowledge transfer via deep dive sessions and measurable uplift in engineering capability.

Technical skills and experience include strong Java expertise, deep experience with Spring ecosystem, microservices and cloud-native architectures, event streaming and messaging, data platform familiarity, AI/ML/LLM productionisation, observability, reliability and performance engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud platforms, security, compliance and risk controls.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring ecosystem
- Microservices
- Cloud-native architectures
- Event streaming and messaging
- Data platform familiarity
- AI/ML/LLM productionisation
- Observability
- Reliability and performance engineering
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Cloud platforms
- Security
- Compliance and risk controls

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