Job Description

Job description

The health and safety of our employees and candidates is very important to us. Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), we\xe2\x80\x99re leveraging our digital capabilities to ensure we can continue to recruit top talent at the HSBC Group. As your application progresses, you may be asked to use one of our digital tools to help you through your recruitment journey. If so, one of our Resourcing colleagues will explain how our video-interviewing technology will be used throughout the recruitment process and will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of a Senior Project Manager.

Equities Technology solve some of the most interesting and complex problems in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Shipping code early and often using Agile and DevOps engineering practices is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the centre of everything we do.

We are motivated by pushing the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment.

About Our Team

Our team in Equities Technology run the Production Practice globally, we partner with engineering teams, our business, product owners and other practices to ensure operational excellence and stability are at the forefront. Curiosity and a growth mind set for continuous learning are key values within our team.

We are globally distributed and well connected as a group, spanning multiple product lines in Equity Derivatives, Prime Finance, Cash Equities and Electronic trading.

We are currently seeking a talented professional to join our team as Head of ESF Production Practice, India.

Requirements

• We are looking for a Practice Head for our India Office, located in Pune and responsible for leading our Production, Infrastructure and Risk & Control practices locally.
• They will run and grow the practices, enabling engineering teams to build and operate their platforms while adhering to standards, policies and regulatory requirements. You will form strong relationships with trading desks, technology teams and senior managers.
• You will help us continue on the journey of implementing Infrastructure as code, containerization, micro services and using cloud infrastructure, while ensuring the highest levels of stability and control of our production platforms.
• Improving existing processes and ways of working is key to the role, enabling consistent small gains to contribute to the evolution of our business and how it operates.
• You will help us build high performing teams and to enable that you would enjoy spending small periods of time in other global offices.

In this role, you will:

• be working as a Practice Head for our India Office, located in Pune and responsible for leading our Production, Infrastructure and Risk & Control practices locally.
• They will run and grow the practices, enabling engineering teams to build and operate their platforms while adhering to standards, policies and regulatory requirements. You will form strong relationships with trading desks, technology teams and senior managers.
• You will help us continue on the journey of implementing Infrastructure as code, containerization, micro services and using cloud infrastructure, while ensuring the highest levels of stability and control of our production platforms.
• Improving existing processes and ways of working is key to the role, enabling consistent small gains to contribute to the evolution of our business and how it operates.
• You will help us build high performing teams and to enable that you would enjoy spending small periods of time in other global offices.

Requirements

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

• You are an experienced manager, with a technical background, ideally comfortable with some coding languages. Whilst Equities trading knowledge is beneficial it is not required for this role, we can teach this.
• You are able to matrix manage within a large team, building good relationships and credibility based on proven delivery.
• Learning from operational failures is important to you, constantly asking why, using evidence to prove root causes, holding blameless post incident reviews and ensuring solutions are implemented to prevent reoccurrences.
• You are an excellent communicator, and are comfortable communicating to senior stakeholders and internal teams such as compliance and are able to range up and down the detail depending on your audience.
• Stepping in to a crisis would not phase you. You\xe2\x80\x99re able to coordinate and run complex operational incidents staying calm and in control of the situation.
• It would be useful for you to have an understanding of software development lifecycles and modern software delivery approaches such as continuous delivery, in fact you may even be passionate about it.
• You are comfortable with change and help drive the evolution of teams and technology.
• If an exciting role paying very competitively, being part of a great community, joining hackathons, access to industry recognised professional development programmes and being part of a progressive global team is for you then please apply and we look forward to meeting you.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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