Job description
Join a digital first bank that’s powered by people.
Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of banking services for our customers around the world.
You’ll be helping us be digital-first when developing new products and services, as well as enhancing existing ones by providing software development and support to each of our Global Businesses and Global Functions.
Using best-in-class technologies, you'll deliver end-to-end execution of all technology services consumed across the HSBC landscape, including change programmes and applications in production.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
Enterprise Technology is the Technology organisation responsible for the design, build and ongoing maintenance of the systems owned by the Group Functions (Risk, Compliance, Finance, Core Banking, Corporate Functions and Deputy COO). The organisation consists of over 8,000 people working in collaboration across 14 countries, to support over 3,000 applications
Role Description
Enjoy coding and staying on top of the emerging trends? Passionate about open source? Love connecting, supporting and building tech communities? Then this might be the role for you!
As a Principal Engineer you will be comfortable spending 80% of your time coding, providing thought leadership and be a role model to the wider teams. You will experiment and research innovative ways of solving difficult technical problems.
Enterprise Technology (ET) is a Global Function encompassing platforms that are vital to the bank’s operation. ET’s mission is to “Enable, Protect and Delight” HSBC’s global businesses. Our inclusive culture means a lot to us, and we are searching for intellectually curious, compassionate people who are eager to grow their skills.
The Analytics & Modelling teams, sit within ET, and provide the Risk & Finance business with the capability to analyse their data and build models for operational use-cases, covering all aspects of the model development lifecycle. There are strategic programmes to pivot to open-source cloud-based solutions and away from vendor-based platforms.
Responsibilities
Your primary responsibility is to drive 'Engineering Excellence’ across the modelling platforms and their related large-scale programs. You will demonstrate a passion for delivering quality software efficiently and reducing toil. In addition, you will drive high standards across the department and be a role model exemplifying these standards. You will be able to develop and communicate technical strategy and influence stakeholders in the delivery of IT solutions aligned to HSBC Technology’s strategic vision. This position plays an instrumental role in driving technical delivery and best in class engineering across a portfolio of agile teams.
As the senior most engineer in the area, you will be able to convey complex topics and work closely with the CIOs, business partners as well as your Principal Engineer peers. In addition, you will upskill teams and providing the oversight and direction to deliver at scale.
Requirements
Essential Skillset/Experience:
- There is a specific emphasis on Python & containerisation to ensure data pipelines and models are executed at scale and cloud agnostic. Understanding and experience of Kubernetes and serverless technologies is essential.
- This role demands a deep awareness of technology, best practices and emerging trends across the industry. You will be able to mobilise ideas safely within the controlled framework ET operate in.
- Hands on passionate technologist who is still delivering code to production
- Ideally does one or more for the following – blogs about technology, has a GitHub portfolio and/or contributes to open source.
- Expert knowledge of Python. Ideally Spark too.
- Experience of working with Quants on modelling would be essential to the role
- Experience in ModelOps would be useful but not essential.
- Ability to follow the industry shifts and offerings across the full-stack including Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud, Virtualization, service mesh, data lakes, storage and networking in Cloud environments.
- A problem solver that can translate business opportunities into technical solutions.
- Experience of modern programming languages (eg. Rust, Go) and the ability to choose the ‘right tool for the job’.
- Connect, build and support communities that ‘raise the bar’ on delivering quality and efficiency.
The role will be based in Sheffield but some travel may be required. This role supports Hybrid working.
Opening up a world of opportunity
Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse.
If you’d like to apply for one of our roles and need adjustments made, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500
UK: PE2023UK
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