Principal Engineer

Some careers have more impact than others. 

If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC. 

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 58 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions. 

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

Job Location : Pune/Hyderabad

The Opportunity:

Your primary responsibility is to be the beacon of `Engineering Excellence’ across CTO Foundations in our Analytics & Common Component areas. You will demonstrate a passion for designing and delivering quality software efficiently (ideally, zero toil). The candidate will drive high standards across the department and be a role model exemplifying these standards. The candidate will be able to develop and communicate technical strategy and influence senior 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 design & code across a portfolio of agile teams.

Analytics & Common Components is structured to support and enable HSBC’s global businesses across all regions. The area sits in Foundations Technology within CTO, providing a set of patterns and services for multiple value stream domains, including Risk and Finance.

There is a specific emphasis on containerisation for multiple cloud deployments, coupled with an inner source and pattern-based approach to promote consistency and reusability. For this to be successful, pods will need to sustain a high degree of engineering discipline. The Principal Engineer is the key role that facilitates and enables this. 

This role demands someone with hands on engineering leadership. They will have a deep awareness of technology, best practices and emerging trends across the industry. They will be able to mobilise ideas safely within the controlled framework we operate in. 

In this role, you will:

Technical Skills

• Hands on passionate technologist – the role expect to be hands on coding at least 60% of the time
• Has one or more for the following – blogs/podcasts about technology, has a GitHub portfolio and contributes to open source
• Awareness of analytic tooling and open-source technologies
• Familiarisation with deploying solutions to different cloud providers in an agnostic way
• Good technical understanding and practical application of microservice design and containerised solutions
• Experience of designing and running highly available systems at scale
• Ability to problem solve and get to a solution quickly, taking a pragmatic view point whilst working on longer term strategic alignment
• Being comfortable working in an area where requirements, design and outcomes might be ambiguous
• Demonstrates a deep understand of one of these technologies Java/Python/Go and Kubernetes/Cloud. A T-shaped engineer.
• Ability to follow the industry shifts and offerings across the full-stack including Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud, micro services, data lakes, storage and networking in Cloud environments.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Impact

• A problem solver that can translate business opportunities into technical solutions
• A broad capability of modern programming languages and the ability to choose the ‘right tool for the job’.
• Build and lead communities that ‘raise the bar’ on delivering quality and efficiency
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and technology partners
• Always considers automation for a solution from the start. Helps to reduce the toil.
• A continuous learner staying up-to-date and guiding the engineering community on evolving trends.
• A strong supporter of DORA and other engineering metrics, who can champion KPI improvement over time
• Research new tech / processes and is the driving force to adopt them

 Bias for Action

• Someone who can create something which makes the bank better, faster, safer
• Someone who can explain technology well to business or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction
• Someone who influences beyond HSBC in the industry (be that tech or banking)
• Someone who can identify risk and opportunities for the business
• Somone who evangelizes and influences engineering best practices
• Facilitates development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps / challenges

 Communication and Leadership  

• Takes accountability & personal risk - i.e. not deferring to an Architect or "the process"
• Supports the Engineering Leads to identify solutions to engineering gaps / challenges 
• Facilitates development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps / challenges 
• Someone who can communicate with code
• Values team success over individual success
• Continuously improves themselves and their team

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC. 

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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