Principal Engineer

Description

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If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 58 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Principal Engineer

The Opportunity

This role will act as a Principal Engineer in the Group Functions Tech AI team and is expected to be experienced in delivering Gen AI solutions at an enterprise scale and familiar with the latest AI developments, such as agentic AI, MCP, RAG and knowledge management.

This position will play an instrumental role in driving technical delivery for large-scale products or pieces of infrastructure with influence across a large teams of engineers.

Their primary responsibility is to add value for significant areas of the technology organisation by using their significant expertise and combination of skills to influence and lead key stakeholders in the delivery of IT solutions that adhere to HSBC Technology's strategic vision.

This person will typically be someone who provides positive, hands-on engineering leadership with impact to a large part of the organisation, they have a deep awareness of technology, what is happening in the tech community, thinking critically about it and applying that to delivering change.

What you will do:

Governance and Committee Memberships

Possible membership of Technical Design Authority

Accountabilities for Business, Customers and Stakeholders

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

Leads other people to use or change their behaviors; this includes "transferring their expertise"

Influences way beyond their own immediate department

Someone who can explain technology well to business people or senior managers such that they buy into a technology direction

Someone who influences beyond HSBC in the industry (be that tech or banking)

Someone who can identify risk and opportunities for the business

Leadership & Teamwork

Takes accountability & personal risk - i.e. not deferring to an Architect or "the process"

Someone who can communicate with code

Values team success over individual success

Continuously improves themselves and their team

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

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Functional Knowledge

Researches new tech / processes and is the driving force to adopt 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

Demonstrates mastery of their technical discipline

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

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC

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Issued By HSBC Software Development (India) Limited