Director of Engineering

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Your career opportunity

Enterprise Technology brings together all areas of financial crime risk management at HSBC including anti- money laundering, transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessment etc. and is dedicated to implement the most effective global standards to combat financial crime. Director of Engineering role is part of Finance Treasury IT function. We are scaling our cloud-native treasury delivery capability beyond China, and Poland is positioned to be our next major delivery hub. We are seeking a hands-on engineering leader to scale a high-performing team, establish engineering excellence, and serve as the delivery anchor for our modern treasury stack.

What you’ll do

• Build and scale the Poland engineering team into a 15–20-person centre of excellence

• Define and implement the local delivery model and engineering best practices

• Hire, mentor, and retain top talent across backend, cloud, and DevOps domains

• Collaborate with technical leads in China and architecture functions

• Define delivery KPIs and drive independent ownership culture

• Represent Treasury Engineering in Poland and grow local tech brand

  
  

What you need to have to succeed in this role:

• 12+ years in software engineering with cloud-native experience

• Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams

• Expertise in microservices, containers, cloud infrastructure

• Experience navigating global, multi-location delivery models

• Excellent communication and culture-building capabilities

• Treasury or finance domain experience is a plus

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards

• Multisport card

• Private medical care

• Life insurance

• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).

• Corporate parties & events

• CSR initiatives

• Nursery discounts

• Financial support with trainings and education

• Social fund

• Flexible working hours 

• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)

• Telephone screen (for external candidates only)

• Job interview with the hiring manager

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