Principal Engineer – Risk and Compliance in Sheffield

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.

Technology teams in the UK work closely with our global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. They also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

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 Risk and Compliance teams, sit within ET, and provide the Risk & Compliance business with solutions to analyse their risk and compliance data, identify and manage threats to HSBC business areas and simplify the workflow of operational areas.  There are strategic programmes to pivot to open-source cloud-based solutions and away from vendor-based platforms as well as to modernise existing systems to meet future threats.

Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibility is to drive `Engineering Excellence’ across the many compliance 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 most senior engineer in the Risk and Compliance 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.

Essential Skillset/Experience:

There is a specific emphasis on Java / Python & containerisation to ensure risk and compliance data processing can be 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 development practices, have deep knowledge of one of our core programming languages, Java / Python and ideally JavaScript & Go too.

·         Experience in event driven processing 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.

·         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.

We believe that being open to a range of perspectives and cultures is vital for our business. We work hard to ensure our diverse and inclusive workplace reflects the communities we serve. We want everyone to achieve their potential – regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. If you have a different way of seeing the world, we are interested in hearing from you.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. 

If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism.  This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process