Principal Engineer, Digital Platforms HK

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

The Role

Hong Kong Technology is a global organisation of 3,000+ employees, primarily based in Hong Kong and our Strategic Development Centres in Guangzhou and Xi’an. We’re hiring a Principal Engineer to act as the technical anchor for Hong Kong Technology across platforms and capabilities. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role that sets direction for architectures, standards, tools and ways of working across the full software lifecycle - build, run, change and retire. The role partners closely with Architecture, Cybersecurity and product owners to align engineering outcomes to strategic objectives. Success means consistent engineering standards, high-cadence low-risk delivery and platforms that support core banking transformation, card platform modernisation and digital platform transformation. A key focus is enabling growth in the Non-Resident Chinese (NRC) segment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and evolve reference engineering standards for core platforms aligned to the Hong Kong Future State Architecture
• Oversee end-to-end delivery across the software development lifecycle including coding, testing, release and production support
• Run peer reviews to strengthen platform consistency, reusability and compliance with enterprise standards
• Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code across engineering teams
• Steer the control transition to using agentic AI coding assistants
• Create, refine and enforce development standards so technology remains sustainable and scalable
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical delivery across multiple squads and geographies
• Represent engineering excellence in cross-platform technology councils and architecture forums

• Bring a strong engineering background with the ability to set strategy and work hands-on with engineering teams
• Demonstrate a proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale transformation and simplification
• Apply experience with streaming and near-real-time patterns for Risk and Finance use cases
• Use practical experience with distributed processing frameworks and workflow orchestration
• Show a good understanding of Financial Services including Finance and Financial Risk domains
• Apply knowledge across the full stack including containers, Kubernetes, cloud, microservices, data lakes, storage and networking in cloud environments
• Provide technical and conceptual thought leadership to navigate ambiguity and stakeholder disagreement to reach outcomes
• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally with experience influencing senior stakeholders and presenting persuasively

This role puts engineering standards and delivery discipline at the centre of major platform transformation in Hong Kong Technology. You’ll shape how teams build and run software, strengthen DevSecOps practices and help modernise core banking, cards and digital platforms. If you want your technical decisions to translate into safer releases, faster change and better outcomes for customers, this is a chance to make that impact at scale. Apply to help set the engineering direction across platforms and capabilities.