Core Banking Engineering Lead

Core Banking Engineering Lead

Join HSBC UK Technology as a Core Banking Engineering Lead and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of banking for 14.8 million customers. You’ll drive engineering excellence, lead strategic technology initiatives, and deliver robust, secure, and innovative banking solutions. As a senior technical leader, you’ll define engineering standards, champion digital transformation, and ensure regulatory compliance across our core platforms.

Core Banking sits at the heart of HSBC’s operations, providing the essential platforms and services that power our retail and commercial banking activities across the United Kingdom. We are committed to driving digital transformation, enhancing operational resilience, and ensuring regulatory compliance, all while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.

• Lead engineering strategy, architecture, and platform convergence for UK Technology.
• Drive operational resilience, automation, and high-quality code delivery.
• Partner with business and product leaders to translate customer needs into technology solutions.
• Provide senior technical leadership on modernisation, cloud adoption, and API integration.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.

• Extensive experience in Dev Ops/software engineering, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (especially Azure).
• Deep knowledge of coding languages (Python, C++, JavaScript, HTML).
• Senior leadership in large-scale, regulated financial services environments.
• Strong understanding of UK banking regulation, operational resilience, and risk management.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.

Sheffield

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and help shape the future of HSBC UK’s core banking technology.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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