Principal Engineer

Overview 

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 being 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. 

Your primary responsibility will be to drive `Engineering Excellence’ within the Compliance Controls Value Stream working closely with the Value Stream Technical Lead, their Leadership Team, Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Owners and Business Stakeholders. 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 Compliance Controls Value Stream, you will be able to convey complex topics and work closely with the VS Stakeholders, CIOs, business partners as well as your Principal Engineer peers. In addition, you will upskill VS / SVS and POD teams, providing the oversight and direction to deliver at scale.  

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, demonstrating an AI-first approach to all you do. 

• 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 extremely useful but not essential, a willingness to learn and become an expert will be helpful. 

• Demonstrate how throughout your career you’ve passionately followed the industry shifts and offerings across the full-stack including Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud, Virtualization, service mesh, data lakes, storage and networking in Cloud environments, and can take a visionary position on where we’re headed next. 

• A problem solver that is obsessive about translating business opportunities into technical solutions, where business value is at the heart of everything you do. 

• The ability to choose the ‘right tool for the job’, explain why and help others do the same. 

• Connect, build and support relationships and communities that continuously ‘raise the bar’ on delivering quality and efficiency. 

• Build inter-personal relationships with key stakeholders and technology partners. 

• Self-assurance to positively question current perspectives and steer towards improved paths. 

• Maintain a strong knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, engineering solutions, and technical standards. 

• Coach, Mentor and share knowledge with others on the team, and outside teams where required. Specifically in Poland, be THE local cheerleader for the engineering practise, being energetic in your promotion of Engineering Excellence amongst our teams and business partners in-country, often representing HSBC Engineers at external events. 

• Always consider automation for a solution from the start.  Help to reduce the toil and time-consuming portions of the technology to help developers become more agile and deliver solutions quickly and securely. 

• Role-model continuous learning & professional development, staying up-to-date and guiding the engineering community on evolving trends.  

 
Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders 

• "Someone who can create something which makes the bank better, faster, safer". 

• Cares passionately about delivering the best digital products and experiences for our customers, putting customer value at the heart of all we do, 

• Steers people to use or change their behaviours; this includes "transferring their expertise". 

• Ability to sell ideas and concepts to key business and IT stakeholders as well as peer engineers.  

• Influences way beyond their own immediate Value Stream and Department. 

• A passionate technology evangelist, who makes technology accessible and exciting or our business teams and  senior managers, helping them see the art of the possible, gaining their trust so that you are their Trusted Adviser, who has their buy-in and supp for your  technology recommendations. 

• Someone who influences beyond HSBC in the industry (be that tech or banking), creates a buzz and attracts the right talent into our teams. 

• Someone who can identify risk and opportunities for the business, then take action to mitigate / manage those risks and deliver solutions which realise those opportunities.  

Teamwork   

• Takes accountability & personal risk - i.e. not deferring to an Architect or "the process", challenges constructively, collaborates for the good of the individual, team, the bank and our customers, 

• Someone who can communicate effortlessly with code and with their colleagues 

• Supports team success over individual success 

• Continuously improves themselves and nurtures their team 

Qualifications

Functional Knowledge 

• Research new tech / processes and is responsible for adopting them 

• Someone who can think few steps forward of technology and guide the team or department to a new direction 

• Someone who isn't just a specialist in one domain (e.g. just networks); we prefer generalists, who can apply their thinking to many problems 

Ideally: 

• Has domain knowledge of Front-to-back traded markets and/or payments processing, 

• Has demonstrable experience in high volume, multi-product, data processing, including batch, streaming, continuous processing, DataBricks / Lakehouse, 

• Is a GCP certified professional with practical experience of designing building and running large-scale data processing applications as part of a DevSecOps team, 

• Has exposure to / experience of Data Science and MLOps, 

• Has practical experience of designing, building and running containerised workloads and applications, on-prem and on-Cloud, 

• Has some exposure to / understanding of no/lo-code workflow tooling like Appian, and if possible, experience of migrating workloads off these tools and writing apps to replace them, leveraging opensource alternatives like Activiti, Flowable etc. 

• Demonstrates mastery of their technical discipline 

• Experienced and comfortable operating in a highly regulated environment and the security and control framework this necessitates.  

Others 

• Can see a problem or an opportunity and then engineers a solution 

• Someone who is respected for what they build not (just) what they say 

• Thinks about the business impact of their work 

• Holistic view to problem solving 

• Communicate ideas succinctly. Ability to communicate technical big picture vision, strategy and direction 

• Is an evangelistic user of AI tools for developers and can demonstrate how this is a force-multiplier in transformational software delivery 

What we offer

The pay range for this role is 32,792.00 - 49,183.33 PLN.

Additional car allowance in the amount of 7,397.00 PLN (monthly, gross).

Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing
* Additional bonuses for recognition awards
* Multisport card
* Private medical care
* Life insurance
* One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
* Cafeteria platform
* Employee assistance program
* Additional contributions to PPK scheme
* Corporate parties & events
* CSR initiatives
* Nursery and kindergarten discounts
* Financial support with trainings and education
* Social fund
* Flexible working hours
* Free parking