Head of Engineering - PE, Application Platforms

HSBC
Guangzhou
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Influencing","Written and verbal communication","Inclusive leadership"]

Lead the Application Platform Engineering function within the CTO Platform Engineering & Architecture team, owning outcomes end-to-end from strategy and roadmap to governance and predictable delivery. Drive ~80% migration to a standard platform by consolidating six hosting platforms into a resilient, well-controlled estate. Define measurable engineering standards, strengthen observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs/SLAs), and implement automated run controls and reusable patterns to improve resilience and time-to-market.

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6 days ago

Head of Engineering - PE, Application Platforms

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Job Summary

Lead the Application Platform Engineering function within the CTO Platform Engineering & Architecture team, owning outcomes end-to-end from strategy and roadmap to governance and predictable delivery. Drive ~80% migration to a standard platform by consolidating six hosting platforms into a resilient, well-controlled estate. Define measurable engineering standards, strengthen observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs/SLAs), and implement automated run controls and reusable patterns to improve resilience and time-to-market.
Location: Guangzhou
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead Application Platform Engineering, covering strategic direction and day-to-day execution.
  • •Support the Head of Application Platforms with end-to-end ownership of delivery, controls, and outcomes across the team.
  • •Establish and operate governance, including prioritisation, delivery cadence, and decision-making forums.
  • •Define, implement, and track measurable engineering standards to improve quality, reliability, and consistency.
  • •Drive migration and consolidation: execute ~80% migration to the standard platform and consolidate six hosting platforms into one resilient, well-controlled estate, improving observability and operational controls.

Key Requirements

  • •14+ years of relevant senior engineering leadership experience in Platform Engineering and/or large-scale application hosting environments.
  • •Experience delivering complex technology change across multiple teams, including platform consolidation and migration programmes.
  • •Ability to establish governance, prioritisation, and delivery management practices in an engineering-led environment.
  • •Demonstrable ability to define and embed engineering standards with measurable outcomes (e.g., reliability, quality, delivery performance).
  • •Hands-on engineering delivery capability through to production, with strong technical knowledge of resilience engineering, controls, and observability practices.
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementInfluencingWritten and verbal communicationInclusive leadership
Tech Stack:JavaPythonNodeCC++C#LinuxKubernetesTCP/UDPService meshOpen-sourceMonitoringLoggingAlertingSLOsSLAsIncident managementAutomationAutomated runbooksPolicy-as-code

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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