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 with a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focus.
- Align applications with CCR FSA standards and engineering guardrails.
- Adopt and embed advanced engineering practices across the team, focusing on quality, automation, and secure-by-design principles.
- Full Delivery Lifecycle Ownership
- Implement solutions end-to-end, including impact assessment, performance tuning, testing, and deployment.
- Fluidly move between development, testing, and production support based on demand.
- Reduce operational pain via automation and better diagnostics.
- DevSecOps and Controls
- Improve key results such as release cadence, incident reduction, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with IT risk and controls, including secure configuration, auditability, and change discipline.
- Engineering Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead or guide developers where needed, driving consistent standards across the team.
- Operate effectively in a global, distributed environment with strong spoken English.
- Apply performance tuning basics, including indexes, query plans, connection pooling, and latency analysis.
- Ways of Working
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving under pressure, good documentation habits, and delivery against multiple deadlines.
- Lead developers and implement 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 use these in incident resolution
- Data: Oracle (or equivalent enterprise RDBMS) and PostgreSQL
- Performance tuning basics (indexes, query plans, connection pooling, latency analysis)
Additional Skills:
- 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 (useful for analysis, tooling, automation)
- Evidence of engineering community contribution (open source, GitHub, blogs)