Principal Cybersecurity Engineer: Engineering Excellence

Engineer and defend the digital backbone of one of the world's largest global banks, raising the bar for Cyber engineering with real hands-on impact.

HSBC Technology builds and runs digital services that help millions of customers bank quickly, simply and securely - on one of the largest and most complex technology estates in the industry. Cybersecurity is investing in a step-change in engineering capability and this role is central to making that real.

We're hiring asenior, hands-on technology leaderto accelerate Cybersecurity's vision ofEngineering Excellence: a world-class engineering capability that helps HSBC navigate cyber risk withinnovative, responsive, frictionless technologies and services. If you're energised by meaningful security problems, cultural change and building safer systems at scale-this is the platform.

What you'll do (hands-on + strategic)

This is aDirector-level individual contributorrole with an initial focus onimproving engineering practice within Cyber, driving improvements in how weselect, build and operateour services globally acrossin-house developed and third-party solutions.

Core responsibilities

Engineering Excellence & Operating Model

• Drive improvements inengineering practiceacross Cyber: how we design, build, run and continuously improve services
• Help mature "the way we do things":standards, patterns, governance and pragmatic guardrailsthat speed delivery safely
• Improvebuild and deployment automation, reducing friction and increasing reliability
• Support simplification of thetechnology stack, reducing complexity and operational risk
  
  

Hands-on Technical Leadership

• Stay hands-on in development while leading technical direction -comfortabledown in the weedsand insenior technical working groups
• Contribute tostrategy and directionfor cyber engineering capability and service evolution
• Drive bothtechnical and cultural change: empowerment, experimentation, learning, partnership and delivery
• Leadarchitecture and designacross solution design andend-to-end system designtargeted at specific cyber outcomes
• Shape global services acrosscloud, on-prem and hybriddeployments in ahighly regulatedenvironment
• Build and influence enterprise-scalefull stack engineeringandcustom security softwareapproaches
  
  

DevSecOps & Automation

• AdvanceDevSecOpsmaturity: automated build, end-to-end testing and deployment pipelines across multiple stacks and toolchains
• Improve how services are operated in production: resilience, repeatability and safe change at pace
  
  

Cybersecurity Engineering Depth

• Apply deep experience across one or more cybersecurity domains, such as:network, endpoint and cloud security, cryptography, malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, PAM, anomaly/intrusion detection, incident response, offensive security
• Bring a practical R&D mindset-knowing when to prototype, when to standardise and when to simplify

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in a cybersecurity discipline as aPrincipal Technical Architect / Principal Engineer
• Strongsoftware engineeringcapability withexcellent coding skillsand enterprise delivery experience
• Proven experience developinglarge enterprise software solutionsacrosscloud / on-prem / hybridin regulated industries (financial services preferred)
• Strongarchitecture and end-to-end system designcapability aligned to cyber outcomes
• Demonstrable ability to communicate technical solutions to senior engineersand strategic vision and concepts to senior management
• DevSecOpsexpertise: automated build, testing and deployment pipelines across multiple tech stacks/tools
• Professional-level cloud certificationin Architecture or DevOps (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional,GCP Professional DevOps Engineer) or equivalent cloud security specialism
• Security certification such asSANS GIAC, OSCP, or equivalent
• A strong STEM oriented background

Why this role matters

You'll help build a Cyber engineering culture where engineers thrive solving hard security problems withpace and safety and delivering services that protect the bank and customers every day. It's a rare seat:global scope, hands-on credibility and the mandate to raise the bar.

Ready to raise the bar for Cyber engineering?

If you're driven to simplify complexity, automate the boring bits and build secure services that scale while shaping a culture of engineering excellence this is your opportunity to make it happen.

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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