Lead Software Engineer in Kraków

WPB CTO BAT team within HSBC Technology Poland is positioned as a nearshore location for European countries, widely supported by the bigger offshore teams on deliveries. The team is helping to build, implement and maintain new initiatives and systems mainly for the internal HSBC employees in EU region. We are building new internal solutions and enabling local businesses to strive and meet not only regulatory demands but also their growth agenda. Being located in Technology Centre is a strong enabler for EU region as the team is playing the role of a bridge between in-country IT teams and other technology teams within HSBC. Our products cover multiple aspects and areas – digital signature, workflow, content management, process streamlining and automation. All this is achieved with high level of autonomy and ability to choose our path and technology direction we would like to implement in the EU countries.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help our agile software development team build and deliver simplification/automation solutions across the region. The Lead Software Engineer is responsible not only for technical excellence and delivering multiple strategic initiatives, ensuring smooth technical implementation, but also for commercializing our solutions, increasing visibility across the bank and building strong, long-term relationships with Business partners. Additionally, he/she is responsible for proactively rolling out technical strategy such as cloud roadmap, DevOps tooling adoption and further DevSecOps adoption, helping to take the team to the next level. The Lead Engineer should also supervise and guide less experienced team members, not only from a technical perspective but also around best practices, security aspects and formal procedures like ITSA EHC etc.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead is accountable for successful delivery of Technology projects by our .Net Team.
• Analyze and propose solutions based on business requirements.
• Efficiently translate these requirements into working software.
• Demo the solution to the business and incorporate feedback.
• Amend and produce specifications/documentation as required.
• Investigate live system faults, diagnose problems, propose and provide solutions.
• Complete projects in a timely manner.
• Proactively roll out technical strategy like cloud roadmap and DevOps tooling adoption, best practices, security aspects and formal procedures like ITSA / EHC.
• Support other team members during their development activities, including supervision and guiding less experienced developers.
• Support IT PMs & Delivery Managers to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications and budgets.
• Ensure adherence to standard controls and drive deliveries to achieve compliance and framework, capability management, security controls and technology architecture designs.

Requirements:

• University or Technical College graduate (preferable in IT) followed by at least 8 years of programming experience.
• Good knowledge of & working experience with (order as per priority): .NET, C#.
• Databases (MS SQL Server 2012 or higher; PostgreSQL would be an advantage).
• Web UI development and testing, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Angular 4 or higher, Bootstrap 3 or higher.
• Entity Framework, Unity.
• Clean Code Principles, C# Design patterns.
• TDD/ATDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment.
• DevOps & DevSecOps.
• Micro-services based architecture.
• Cloud knowledge & experience (GCP or AWS) would be a big plus.
• Excellent English language communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Team player with good interpersonal skills and adaptable to change.
• Curiosity and learning capabilities, ability to absorb new technologies & procedures quickly.
• Self organized and have good business communication experience.
• Ability to work in a team of diversified international environment.
• Ability to work efficiently and independently under pressure.
• Knowledge of how banks work and operate would be a plus.
• Experience in a corporate world is a significant plus.

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. Please send your CV to katarzyna.stachura@hsbc.com. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates. Only those applications that include the candidate's consent to process personal data by HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o., in accordance with the Data Protection Act as of 29 August 1997 will be considered.