Associate Director, Software Engineering

HSBC

  • Guangzhou, Guangdong
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 20 days ago
Job descriptionSome 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 Associate Director, Software Engineering.Business: FICC TechPrincipal responsibilities
  • This team is building new components to handle STP booking of IRD products from electronic venues into our trade workflow and primary trading systems (replacing functions currently performed using vendor technology). We are partnering with our FX eRisk team to use inhouse technology for implementing resilient, distributed low latency trading components operating 24 x 5.5 in multiple trading markets/regions.
  • The team has approx. 7 developers in Poland, China and Canada and your role will be to work alongside the PM and technical SME and to technically lead the development team, taking them forward after the current oversight of the eRisk tech leads.
  • This role will be a hands on development/software engineering role. In addition, everything you and the team build will be a production trading system and you will need to have ownership and accountability for ensuring observability, metrics and monitoring are in place and constantly evolved to support live trading. A product/production mindset is essential as well as development lead skills.
  • In MSS IT we work directly and closely with the business - product owers, traders, sales people and middle office/operations staff. Communication with these stakeholders is essential and you will need to be able to work out requirements and details with them.
  • HSBC and MSS operate in a regulated environment and there are many IT controls teams are responsible for in the systems they build. Our approach is to automate these controls (e.g. vulnerability scanning, access controls, disaster recovery, change requests and deployment etc.) and part of your role will be to ensure this happens for this team.
Requirements
  • Hands on technical team leadership of teams of 4-8 software developers.
  • Java development of distributed systems in a Linux environment
  • Technical responsibility for all aspect of a production system:
- Production observability and monitoring e.g. Grafana, Kibana, ELK, Prometheus, Genos or similar.- DevOps and tools e.g. Deployment tools, CI/CD, JIRA, git.- Cyber Security – Vulnerability remediation (NexusIQ, Checkmarx or similar)- Test automation and regression testing and tooling.You are:
  • A software engineer with experience of mentoring and technically leading other developers.
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven rapid learning capability.
  • Experienced working in fast-paced, collaborative environment
  • Able to communicate with business users in English.
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.Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***

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