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Principal Engineer

HSBC electronic data processing india pvt ltd

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12-14 years

Pune

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Principal Engineer

HSBC Group

posted 2mon ago

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Job Description

Job description

Some careers have more impact than others.
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 62 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

Location: Pune/ Hyderabad

Department Background: WPB Technology

The Opportunity:

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 virtualization and lower cost storage
Migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
Optimizing data backup and retention policies
Reducing the number of end user devices.

Almost without exception, the PE role has been created to recognize and reward technical achievement. This stands as an alternative to managerial advancement, which until recently was the only way of recognizing technical talent.

It realize 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.

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.

What you ll do:

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 recognize technical talent and to increase the business value obtained from their efforts.

Requirements

What you will need to succeed in the role:

Minimum Bachelor level University degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a similar related subject
Demonstrable expert knowledge in a large IT estate, ideally within Financial Services and solid knowledge of the industry ITIL Service Management framework, latest coding standards, Insurance technical stack
Previous Head of IT, or CIO level experience, ideally within a Group or Regional corporate model
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to a wide range of individuals and groups and at different levels of seniority
Self-starter and effective collaborator. Innovative and able to assess needs and propose solutions
Ability to influence without direct management authority, in a large and complex matrixed organization
Demonstrable expert knowledge within Insurance and / or Financial Services

Expectations in role are to

Deliver high quality technology platforms with tiered service levels
Deliver cost savings and efficiency through reduced complexity
Improve time to market for delivery of services
Enable effective regulatory, audit and security controls
Drive productivity and sustainability

Additional Essential Experience
Have a system engineering background and the ability to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement. Provide technical thought leadership in evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption. Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of:

Cloud technologies: (AWS, Google GCP, MS Azure APIs)
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus)
Automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform)
Middleware (Websphere, Tomcat, Java, Messaging, Application Server, Web server)
Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN, SDN)
Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux, Windows, Solaris), Server Virtulization (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, KVM)
Storage (EMC SAN FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SRDF; NetApp NAS - CIFS, NFS; Object storage)
Databases (Oracle RAC, AWS RDS, Sybase, Apache Hadoop and MongoDB)
Collaboration tools (Confluence, Jira)

Additional Beneficial Experience
Business

Have a good understanding of the WPB Insurance business.
Able to translate business needs into appropriate IT solutions.

Technical

Cloud technologies: (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure; Mulesoft; App Dynamics, google GCP)
Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ Java Script
Databases (Oracle and MS SQL; VCS and MSCS; AWS RDS etc.)
Infrastructure as Code

Passion for technology and understanding how things work

Additional Key skills
Candidates will also need to demonstrate:

A track record of delivering significant change which improves business effectiveness in sustainable ways
Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing senior stakeholders, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations
Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field
Proven experience of leading others and creating an environment that supports and inspires people to develop and deliver
Built effective networks both internally and externally and created opportunities for others to work collaboratively
A track record of making complex business decisions with authority, even in times of ambiguity, considering the potential long term risks and implications