Principal Engineer - Digital Business Services
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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) helps deliver on HSBC’s purpose of opening up a world of opportunity by providing our customers with borderless banking and world-class wealth management through best-in-class, mobile-first capabilities and exceptional people. Our international network and breadth of expertise enable us to support individuals, families, business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. Wealth and Personal Banking has four key business areas responsible for efficiently bringing the best of HSBC to our clients through a broad and relevant suite of wealth and retail banking capabilities: Asset Management, Global Private Banking & Wealth, HSBC Life, Retail Banking & Strategy and COO & Digital Transformation.
We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as a Principal Engineer.
Job Profile
Principal Engineers (PE) are the second highest level of the IC Engineering Career Path.
The job holder exist to grow the capability of our engineering organization to increase customer value through implementing the right technical solutions in the right way. PE’s are “a key technical consultant in a deep area of expertise or across multiple areas.
The job holder is a strategist, shaping engineering business decisions and processes. PEs also provide leadership for technical disciplines, competencies and professions, and develop architectures, standards, and tools.”
This role is equivalent of a Director on an Individual Contributor (IC) track.
Purpose of the role
Almost without exception, the PE role has been created to recognise and reward technical achievement. This stands as an alternative to managerial advancement, which until recently was the only way of recognising technical talent.
It realise the benefit of a technical career track that runs in parallel to the managerial track. Its main purpose is to provide an alternative for those individuals not motivated to move into managerial roles.
This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:
- The PE role usually stands at the near top of this technical career track.
- PEs are expected to provide technical advice to senior management when making major decisions. The job holder are also expected to solve complex problems that have a business critical impact, and to form task forces that are assigned to address one-off issues.
- Shape Engineering strategy
- Create commercially valuable products or services through innovative use of technology
- Contribute to the wider technology community through conference presentations, white papers, blog posts
- Mentor technology talent and take an active role in the development of others
In summary, the purpose of the PE role is to both recognise technical talent and to increase the business value obtained from their efforts.
This role will support the WPB Tech Insurance business projects and transformation programmes:
- delivering new Tech services, exploiting current infrastructure technologies
- migrating applications to IaaS / PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud.
- driving a greater utilization of virtualisation and lower cost storage
- migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
- optimising data backup and retention policies
- reducing the number of end user devices.
