Engineering Lead

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Your career opportunity

In today’s digital world, HSBC needs to continuously develop innovative ways of customer interaction with our

products and services. We are building new technology and enhancing our existing systems and offerings, to allow

us to maximise the benefits of the latest technological advancements and trends.

This role will be within the Digital Identity Sub Value Stream (DI SVS). DI SVS is focused on identifying and

working with some of the most interesting external vendors from around the world to provide cutting edge products

to the wider bank and our more than 40 million global customers.

One of our most strategic products is a global Digital Identity Validation & Authentication service that provides any

market with the ability to verify a person’s identity, via an API integration. We partner with a selection of third-party

vendors to deliver real time identity and anti-impersonation checks as part of a digital journey.

Our product enables customer to capture their government issued identity document (including passport, driver’s

license, national ID card) and verifies the document’s authenticity. This is then combined with fully digital anti-

impersonation check.

What you’ll do

• Ensure quality of the solutions being developed and maintained and managing technical risks.
• Champion good developer practice for the team, including ensuring that best practices are implemented and followed.
• Guide and support the development of team members and the application they build.
• Help drive the architectural discussions related to the solutions being developed by the team with different stakeholders, this includes working closely with the product owners, architects, product manager, delivery leads, among others.
• Supervise development activities and while doing so taking into consideration short- and long-term consequences of technical decisions.
• Supervise groups of software developers, this includes being an entity manager for them.
• Define, build and testing technical solutions in an agile environment. The platform is primary using Java & JavaScript (React.js) hosted on public cloud.
• Write infrastructure terraform/cloud formation and CI/CD pipelines in groovy and write unit tests in Spock, e2e tests in cucumber, contract-based tests in PACT.
• Define architecture and solutions including R&D on cloud and 3rd party vendors’ services.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Experience in managing IT solutions development and maintenance in a complex organisational and IT environment.
• Experience in people management with leadership abilities to help solve problems.
• Strong technical skills specifically in cloud-based technology (AWS serverless or, other public cloud is essential) and Java.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• DevOps experience, especially with terraform.
• Quality driven with ability to write tests on any level with BDD & TDD approach.
• Understanding of front-end technologies including Java Script, Android and iOS is a plus.
• Good English both oral and written is essential
• Good communication skills in order to effectively explain complex technical concepts to wide variety of stakeholders.

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 assessment.
•  Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
•  Interview with the hiring manager.

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!

You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.